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New York City) On Wednesday, September 8, Third Streaming proudly announces Bite: Street-inspired Art & Fashion, an exhibition and a retail store that explore the interface between art, fashion and performance. 10 Greene Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY Opening reception: Wednesday, September 8 from 8-12 Participating artists and designers: Derrick Adams with designer Brian Wood | Designers John Ashford and Michael Walls with Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow | Xenobia Bailey | Tunji Dada of Tunji Dada Design | Andrew Dosunmu | Nicky Enright | Zachary Fabri | Jay Tuazon of Plag1
Third Streaming
Bite: Street Inspired Art and Fashion
September 8 - November 6 2010
10 Greene Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY
Opening reception: Wednesday, September 8 from 8-12
Participating artists and designers: Derrick Adams with designer Brian Wood | Designers John Ashford and Michael Walls with Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow | Xenobia Bailey | Tunji Dada of Tunji Dada Design | Andrew Dosunmu | Nicky Enright | Zachary Fabri | Jay Tuazon of Plag13 | Zulema Griffin and Sherie Weldon of Deux Conceptualiste Noir with Kenya Robinson | Malcolm Harris of One Dress | Ronald Jean-Gilles: Jennie C. Jones | Jayson Keeling | Osamu Koyama of Complete Technique | Laura Lobdell | Yumiko Matsui | Olek | Karyn Olivier | Peter Dean Rickards | Jason Rylander | Xaviera Simmons.
New York City) On Wednesday, September 8, Third Streaming proudly announces Bite: Street-inspired Art & Fashion, an exhibition and a retail store that explore the interface between art, fashion and performance. Organized by fashion designer and independent film maker Zulema Griffin with Yona Backer and Junichi Masuda of Third Streaming, the show features objects and design by a group of emerging independent fashion designers and visual artists influenced by urban culture. The street registers a general tenor of the times we live in, and to that end, this show reveals how artists and designers - in tune with this sentiment - use it as a source for their work. Creative producers refer to the street as a means to capture cultural and social change, even before we are aware of it, producing the next wave in fashion and art.
Tilton Gallery
ELSE
September 9- October 16, 2010
8 East 86th Street
New York, NY 10021
Opening reception: Thursday, September 9th 7-9pm
Participating artists: Adler Guerrier | Arjan Zazueta | Carlos Rigau | David Antonio Cruz | Diane Wah | Frohawk Two Feathers | Jaret Vadera | Langdon Graves | Simone Leigh | Yashua Klos
ELSE group exhibition presents a selection of work situated in between the recognizable and indistinguishable. A combination of sculpture, painting, printing making, video and installation bringing about various overlapping conversations and exploring the way we interpret cultural, religious and personal narrative in a way that gives the viewer a glimpse into something uncanny.
CoCurators: Derrick Adams + Jack Tilton
DASH GALLERY
DIY
September 20-October 30, 2010
172 Duane Street
Tribeca, NYC 10013
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 23th, 7-10pm
Participating artists: Phillip Carpenter | Gregory Michael Carter | Cacy Forgenie | Yashua Klos | Glendalys Medina | S.E. Nash | Jacolby Satterwhite | sleeper | Justin Randolph Thompson | Tayo Ogunbiyi | Diane Wah.
DIY (Do It Yourself) is a group exhibition focusing on sculpture, print making, video, photography, installation and mixed media based work. The exhibited work implies a performative element or an application associated with the artist's physical involvement of art making: a handmade creation of an object; a fabricated scene; or a moment documented. These direct actions cause a response resulting in a tangible object that is an extension of that gesture.
Co-Curators: Derrick Adams + Wardell Milan
Derrick Adams is a multidisciplinary New York-based artist currently represented by Collette Blanchard Gallery. He is an alumnus of The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program and received his MFA from Columbia University and BFA from Pratt Institute. Exhibition highlights include: PS1/MoMA Greater New York 2005, Performa 05, Brooklyn Museum Open House, and received a 2009 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.
In addition to making art, Adams is the former Curatorial Director of Rush Arts Gallery in New York which in 2008 received the Mayor's Award for Art and Culture. He's participated in panels, lectures and taught at Columbia University, NYU, University of Tennessee and Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2009, Adams launched the creative online destination, Bingeonline.com.
photo credit: Michael Chuapoco
Adams' work combines a variety of media to fashion a small society within an animated world by scripting performative identities through costumes and environments that are frequently reversed (interior/exterior, front/back), manifesting the two-sided nature of seemingly neutral objects. A preoccupation with consumer objects and their presumed demographic posturing, particularly in an urban context, informs his practice of reconfiguring familiar items to expose their persuasive and often duplicitous nature. Learning functions as both subject and object in his work, which derive from impressionable experiences associated with iconography from American culture, gleaned from adults, education, television, and mostly from the black male experience.
His recent work speaks of fallen empires and childhood impressions; of glittery memories against muted realities. Broken landscapes address the relationship between man and monument - coexisting in the landscape as representations of each other - one mortal, impermanent and actual size, the other exaggerated, serving as a semi-permanent structure to commemorate our presence.
EDUCATION
Columbia University, New York NY. MFA, 2003
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY. BFA, Art & Design Education, 1996
RESIDENCIES + AWARDS
2010
The Fountainhead Residency, Miami FL
2009
Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, New York NY
2003 2004
The Space Program, New York NY
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
2001 2003
Agnes Martin Fellowship
2002
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS + PERFORMANCES
The Kitchen, New York NY
Go Stand Next to the Mountain
Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York NY
Welcome to Monument City
Collette Blanchard Gallery, NADA, Miami Beach FL
Introduction to Bizarro Wiz
(Installation and performance at Le Jardin Theatre, Deauville Beach Resort)
2006
Momenta Arts, Brooklyn NY
Sometimes I Just Dont Feel Like Myself
2005
Participant Inc, New York NY
Anew (PERFORMA 05 performance biennial)
Marvelli Gallery, New York NY
I'm Sorry, I'm Lost
I'm Smoke; Youre Mirror
2004
Triple Candie (Project Space), New York NY
Me and My Imaginary Friends
2003
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York NY
The Big Getaway
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Sue Scott Gallery, New York NY
Lush Life: Chapter One: Whistle
(Curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud)
Higher Pictures, New York NY
50 Artists Photograph the Future
Bowery Poetry Club, New York NY
Dissecting Intersections: Performative Responses
Curator: John Sims
CTRL GALLERY, Houston TX
Precarity and The Butter Tower
Curator: Jackie Gendel + Tom McGrath
Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art, New York NY
NeoIntegrity Comics Edition
BRIC Arts, Brooklyn NY
Revelatory Tension
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY
Harlem Postcards
2008
Moti Hasson Gallery, New York NY
Untitled (On Paper)
Red House Arts Center, Syracuse NY
Bedtime Stories
Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York NY
1968: Then and Now
Curator: Deborah Willis
Ingalls & Associates, Miami FL
Casa de Carton
Curator: William Cordova
2007
Derrick Eller Gallery, New York NY
Neo Integrity
Curator: Keith Mayerson
Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
Dream of Today
Curator: Amy Smith-Stewart
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Taking Possession
Memphis College of Art, Memphis TN
Reasons to Riot
Taxter & Spengemann, New York NY
Invade My Dreams
Curator: Kalup Linzy
MoCADA, Brooklyn NY
(Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art)
The Pulse of New Brooklyn
Alona Kagan Gallery, New York NY
If Youre Feeling Sinister
P.S.1 MoMA, Queens NY
Greater New York 2005
Tilton Gallery, New York NY
Jack Tilton Inaugural Exhibition
Wall Street Rising / Deutsche Bank, New York NY
Art Downtown: Connecting Collections
Florida Atlantic University Gallery, Boca Raton FL
Me, Myself & I
(Renee Riccardo & Paul Laster, Curator)
Sampson Projects, Boston MA
Notorious Impropriety
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY
Open House: Working in Brooklyn
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
24/7: Wilno Nueva York (Visa Para)
Confrontation or Commentary
Roebling Hall Satellite, New York NY
Summer Jam
(Franklin Sirmans, Curator)
Lisa Kirk Projects, New York NY
You
Massimo Audiello, New York NY
Adams, Cerrillo, Perkins
Veni Vidi Video
Centenary Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
Urbanites: New York, London, Tokyo
Triple Candie, New York NY
Hotel/Motel
L. C. Bates Museum, Hinckley ME
2001
UFA Gallery, New York NY
Adams & Finney
Manhattan Borough Presidents Office, New York NY
Striking Blows
2000
Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Derrick Adams & Dread Scott
Rewriting History
1999
Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Challenge Exhibition
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Center for Book Arts, New York NY
Workshop Leader: Professional Development: Creative Marketing for Artists
New York State Housing Authority Annual Art Exhibition
Judge
MoMA: MoMA MIXX (2009 Armory Show opening night party)
Guest DJ
Panelist
2007 - 2009
New York State Council on the Arts, New York NY
Visual Arts Panelist
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York NY
Percent for Art Panelist
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens NY
Artist in Residence Selection Committee
Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize, Baltimore MD
Juror
South Asian Womens Creative Collective, New York NY
State of Emergency selection committee
Rubin Museum of Art, New York NY and ArtAsiaPacific present
Artists on Art with Derrick Adams
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
Young Artists Series with Derrick Adams
University of Tennessee/Knoxville School of Art, Knoxville TN
Visiting artist
Art Positions, produced by Art Basel + WPS1.org, Miami Beach FL
Art Sound Lounge Artist/DJ
Slide Show IV Artist talk
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn NY Lobby Gallery
Corridor Gallery guest curator of three-part exhibition: Dwellings: Justin Lowe; Mika Tajima; Roberto Visani
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY - Presidents Symposium
Gentrification and the Brooklyn Artist
Face-to-Face Conference Panel
Mission Possible: Making Connections Between Artists & Cultural Institutions
The Congressional Black Caucus Braintrust, Washington DC
Young, Gifted and Black: The Hip Hop Economy
(How Hip Hop Has Influenced the Arts, Culture and Wall Street)
2001 & 2002
Bronx Museum, Bronx NY
Artist in the Marketplace
Access Zone selection committee
Creative Capitol, New York NY
Grant evaluator
Community Outreach Committee
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
Pre-college Summer Program selection committee
WORK EXPERIENCE
Rush Arts Gallery & Resource Center (Non-profit), New York NY
2001 2009 Curatorial Director
1996 2001 Gallery Director/Curator
2006 2009 Adjunct Asst. Professor Painting Dept.
(Undergraduate Instructor; Course title: Elements of Visual Thinking; Phenomenon of Color)
2005 Adjunct Asst. Professor Painting Dept.
(Undergraduate Instructor; Course title: Materials as Metaphor)
Columbia University, New York NY
2005 Adjunct Asst. Professor Dept. of the Arts
(Undergraduate Instructor: Basic Drawing)
2004 Adjunct Asst. Professor Dept. of the Arts
(Undergraduate Instructor: Sculpture Fundamentals)
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY
2003 Gallery & Studio Program
(Art Instructor)
P.S. 3, Brooklyn NY
1998 2000 Resident Art Teacher: grades K through Six
(Designing curriculum for teachers to teach art)
(Annenberg Foundation Grant through the Brooklyn Museum of Art)
One World Magazine, New York NY
1999 2000 Assistant Arts Editor Arts section
COMING SOON
Holland Cotter. Art Review: Lower East Side Tale, Refracted Nine Times New York Times. July 8, 2010
Holland Cotter. Art in Review: 50 Artists Photograph the Future New York Times. May 27, 2010
Charlie Finch. Bricktop Artnet.com Feb 2010
Myrtis Bedolla. Art Basel 09 The International Review of African American Art. Vol. 23, No. 1, 2010
Holland Cotter. United Black Girls New York Times. March 30, 2007
McLean Jackson. Derrick Adams Mass Appeal Magazine Issue 38, 2006
Michelle Yun. Derrick Adams PS1/MoMA Greater New York Book 2005
Soraya Murray; Derek Conrad Murray. A Rising Generation & The Pleasures of Freedom International Review of African American Art Volume 20, Number 2. 2005
Molly Kleiman. People Sticking Their Heads in Things NY Arts Magazine Sept/Oct 2005
Carly Berwick. Where the Scenes Are Greater New Yorks new art geography New York Magazine
7 Mar. 2005
Ali Subotnick, Massimiliano Gioni, Maurizio Cattelan. Everybody Was There The Wrong Guide to New York in 2004. Artforum Dec. 2004
Holland Cotter. Art in Review: Charles Gaines. New York Times 30 Apr. 2004
Nuit Banai. Art: Youth Maneuvers One World Feb/Mar. 2004
Holland Cotter. Art Guide: Last Chance. New York Times 3 Oct. 2003
Liutauras Psibilskis. Critics Picks: Vilnius Artforum.com Sep. 2003
Ken Johnson. Art in Review: From Mouse Ears to Poetic Pop... New York Times 2 Feb. 2002
Ken Johnson. Art in Review: National Black Fine Arts Show. New York Times 2 Feb. 2001
RUSH ARTS GALLERY
The Mothership Has Landed
February 2 March 20, 2010
Participating artists: BRANDON C. COX | LAINIE DALBY | AYANA V. JACKSON | GLENDALYS MEDINA | MARCUS MORALES | JACOLBY SATTERWHITE
The Mothership Has Landed is a group exhibition whose title is borrows from the infamous George Clinton + Funkadelic and their decades-long experimental movement combining music, fashion, illustration and performance. Their phrase, "The Mothership Has Landed" can roughly translate to "The shit is about to hit the fan!" and illustrates the collective nature of the group's overall expressive and raw quality. A similar expressive and raw quality can be seen in this group of artists. Their works are cultural hybrids borrowing from the familiar and inspired by their investigation of media transformed through personal experience, resulting in a cosmic array of images, objects and performance. "Here's a chance to dance our way out of our constrictionswith the groove our only guide, we shall all be moved." One Nation Under A Groove -George Clinton + Funkadelic
RUSH ARTS GALLERY project space
Lester Julian Merriweather
Vanilla Extract
September 25 November 7, 2010
The Vanilla Extract Series explores the frequency and/or lack of black representation in mainstream media outlets. Merriweather extracts white people from the pages of high-end fashion magazines, as well as other printed materials, to illustrate the universal social imbalance in reference to the representation of African Americans within society.
InProgress Residency + Exhibition
Carol Pereira + Jonas Olson
August 3 - September 12, 2009
For their residency, Pereira and Olson showcase an experimental collaboration between two people employing wall drawing, video projection and performance. The pair transformed the gallery into a multi-sensory environment that engaged their spatial surroundings and audience to interrogate notions of power, body and space.
Fiona Gardner
Meet Miss Subways
April 14 - May 30, 2009
Fiona Gardner exhibits carefully constructed portraits of the former Miss Subways contest winners wearing sashes with lettering taken directly from their original Miss Subways placards. Her photographs' dramatic lighting references the glamour of pageantry, while the settingshomes and places of workare the everyday spaces of the women's lives. Her images focus on the personal stories of these briefly famous women, while also viewing their lives through a wider historical and feminist context. There were nearly 200 winners of the Miss Subways beauty contest held by New York City's transit system between 1941 and 1976.
Pierre Obando
Nowhere
February 3 - March 28, 2009
The works of Pierre Obando operate with a minimal and graphic aesthetic that suggests blankness, and a lack of identity. The paintings challenge our tendency to place them in customary categories like abstraction or representation, and also emotional categories like sincere or ironic. His techniques of using dots to render his images give the impression that the image we are looking at has been enlarged. Like views under a microscope, over vision is enhanced while the identity of what is seen is obscured. These paintings offer no reassurance that what we perceive is an immediate entity, like a lyrical abstraction, or a typological example of that style of painting.
White Lies, Black Noise
November 14, 2008 - January 24, 2009
Participating artists: Ricky Day | Anthony Fuller | Amin Rehman | LaToya Frazier |
Shani Peters | Philip A. Robinson Jr.
The photography, sculpture, video and text-based work of Shani Peters, Ricky Day, Amin Rehman, LaToya Frazier, Anthony Fuller and Phillip Robinson are juxtaposed to demonstrate how source material is used to explore subculture and subtext, questioning social awareness and relevance. These six artists explore the relationship between communicator and communication and illuminate communal experiencesin both marginalized and non-marginalized communitiesthrough iconic subject matter and technology.
Ashanti Chaplin
ROMANS 14:11 every tongue shall confess
November 6-8, 2008
ROMANS 14:11 every tongue shall confess is a multimedia installation created by Ashanti Chaplin, that consists of performance, sculpture, video, and sound. The content of the installation explores themes of voyeurism, mimetic desire and the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The elements of the installation were created to construct a narrative. The assemblage of recorded and edited confessions combined with live confessions of attendees will create a story about that day, the space, and the people who occupy the space. The layering of confessions will ultimately act as an unreliable narrator that attempts to present a tale that is a reflection of contemporary times. It is the artists intent to explore the nature of public and private dialogue and the connection between the sacred and the sinister. As an artist Ashanti is interested in how repression, whether it is political or psychological, shapes the landscape of things desired and furthermore how those desires are realized and revealed in the collective conscience.
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow
Mildendranthema Grandeflorum
September 23- November 1, 2008
Mildendranthema Grandeflorum, a piece that incorporates photography, video, installation and sculpture, is a performative work by Lyn-Kee-Chow who embodies a mythical character, appropriately called the flower thief. In dynamic and vividly colored photographs, Lyn-Kee-Chow transcends spatial and temporal parameters as we witness the flower thief treading grounds in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, the White Houses Rose Garden in Washington D.C., and Queens, New York. Although the artist has contextually anchored the protagonists location in Jamaica, it is simultaneously transnational in scope and speaks to how this legend can be applied universally.
Michael Paul Britto
July-September 2008
Everybody In
April 11- May 24, 2008
Is an exhibition that explores the relationship between artist and audience through various installations and performance focused works where the viewer interaction is accentual in some degree to the completion of the work. Bringing to light the levels of social obligation we have to engage with art objects in an art gallery/museum context.
Participant Artists: Manuel Acevedo | Leor Grady | Boris Rasin + Kenny Komer | Arlene Rush
Simone Leigh
If You Want Fo Lick Old Woman Pot,
You Scratch Him Back
2008 February 1- March 29
When Zora Neale Hurston wrote Tell My Horse, it pioneered at this historical moment a cross-cultural exploration of Caribbean societies that were thought to be socially, culturally and economically inferior to the United States despite the fact that they shared parallel histories of slavery and colonialism. Yet, beyond this, her keen ethnographical perspective allowed for fascinating insight into themes such as gender politics, accenting definite points of departure for Simone Leighs creative process. In this exhibition, Simone Leigh provides us with art that explores issues of gender, race, identity and notions of belonging. While the body informs much of her work, Leigh buttresses her examination of it with fascinating juxtapositions of vegetal forms that invites one to ponder on the politics surrounding the relationship between food and the body.
Garveyism
Participate artists: Michael Cole | Jayson Keeling | Lauren Kelley | Yashua Klos | Alexis Peskine | Monique Schubert | Jeff Sims | Lauren Woods | Rose Oluronke guest writer
Garveyism is essentially the belief in self-definition, self-agency, unity as well as economic self-reliance for individuals of African descent. Garveyism positions Marcus Garveys teachings in context of a post-Civil Rights, post-Black Power, post-Black Art Movement, and post-Black framework. The artists work featured in this exhibition explores ideas relating to spirituality, Colonialism, globalism, economic empowerment, commoditization, gender, as well as black female agency and power in the domestic space. Each resists monolithic views of black identity.
Inside Out: Rush Teens Curatorial Projects
November 17, 2007- January 19, 2008
Rush Teen Participants: Emmanuel Cuz-Gomez | John Fraceschi | Daniel Morales | Julio Ramos | Jose Santiago
Inside Out- Rush Teens Curatorial Projects is an in-depth look into the world of curation with a focus on exhibtion planning and artist-curator collaboration. The program highlights the strategic positioning that happens in preparations towards representing the ideas of artists and curators, starting with the behind-the-scenes artwork selection process and culminating with the installation of the completed exhibitioni in the gallery. Teens review proposals and select artists for two shows of every exhibition season, once in the fall and the other in the spring. Students also create an Exhibition Diary as a visual arts studio component, which takes shape in many formstwo or three dimensionaland accompanies selected artists work in the Project Space along with a video documentary of the Rush Teens selection process. Classes are held Saturday mornings on-site at Rush Arts Chelsea gallery and some offsite fieldtrips are made to various art related institutions and artists studio spaces. Each class session is a combination of discussion, review, research and art making. The theme for this years Rush education program is Transformation, a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance.
Face off
November 16, 2007 - January 19, 2008
Participating artists: Luke Abiol | Christopher Clary | Ivan Monforte | Justine Reyes Bayete Ross Smith | Diane Wah
This large-scale photography, video and media-based exhibition explores new ways of representing identity and interpersonal relationships through portraiture. The six artist in this show highlight the individual subject as a tool of greater social commentary and open up the parameters of art making to investigate archetypes and the gaze of traditional portraiture through non-traditional means.
Participating artists: Luke Abiol Christopher Clary Ivan Monforte Justine Reyes Bayete Ross Smith Diane Wah
Neo-NeoDada
September 21- November 3, 2007
Participating artists: Zachary Fabri | James Jaxxa | Swati Khurana | Sandra Eula Lee | Kay Reese | Miguelangel Ruiz
The exhibition builds on the political and subversive structuring of the Dada movements established in the early 1900s and 1960s while falling into a new category all its own. As an extension of the two, Neo-Neo Dada brings together six artists whose work employs strategies extending beyond the traditional practices of the previous movements to engage the viewer with a current yet familiar conversation surrounding social concerns.
Nathaniel Mary Quinn
The Magic Stick
Stitched in a critical intersection between art, sociology, and American fashion, the work of Nathaniel Mary Quinn forges a unique paradigm where visual language is used to highlight social invisibility and challenge conventional modes of perception. Quinns work is highly personal and committed to representing communities and concepts that are unrepresented or misrepresented in contemporary discourses on identity politics. Highlighting difference and oppressive binaries is something that Quinn has culled into a dynamic visual language that magnifies the various sites of objectification in contemporary art and media. Quinn further problematizes the issue of representation by introducing queer imagery and what he terms :the rubric of homoeroticism, to challenge conditioned expectations of what a contemporary, urban, black art aesthetic is or could be.
Things Fall Apart
April 12- May 26, 2007
Participating artists: Carmen Alvarado | Suzanne Broughhel | Ogechi Chieke | Eddie Chu | Pierre Obando | Ivan Stojakovic | Raphael Zollinger
First published in 1959, Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart recounts the profound effects of European colonialism on the vibrant Igbo culture of West Africa. As the foreign power established itself, it justified its presence through a civilizing discourse steeped in the ideology of Enlightenment rationalism while the regional traditions were systematically disrupted and erased. While registering the violence of this colonial encounter, the novel revels in the intricacies of Igbo myth, ritual and tradition, the narrative counters historical erasure through its fictional presence, proclaiming its fiction as history. Acutely conscious of the link between history and fiction, the artists in this exhibition use disparate formal strategies to imaginatively mine the fissures of the past and present, disrupting hegemonic narratives, providing alternative perspectives, uncovering buried prejudices and trauma, and asserting the continuing importance of myth and fiction.
United Black Girls
February 1- March 31, 2007
Participating artists: Ifetayo A Abdus-Salam | Omya Alston | Heather Hart | Jessica Peavy | Ashley Reid | Felicia Megginson | Co- Curators: Derrick Adams + Vanessa Riding
In contemporary American society there is a new movement of young artists that are reinvestigating ideas of power, race and identity while seeking a new unity that welcomes personal exploration, contradiction and the diversity of individuality.This exhibition about attitude and aesthetics brings together six artists whose work explores representations of the Black Woman in popular culture.
Believe
September 21- November 4, 2006
Participating artists: Jaishri Abichandani | Shelly Bahl | Mikal Levon Calloway | Onel Naar | Rashaad Newsome
Believe is an exhibition about the penetration of religion and spirituality into everyday life. It is about the objects, monuments, narratives and images that transforms the experience of faith into palpable manifestation. The works of Jaishri Abichandani, Shelly Bahl, Onel Naar, Rashaad Newsome, and Mikal Levon Calloway propose that we are all touched by religion, in one way or another. Indeed, their works suggest that religion is often an integral part of an individuals primary identity or a societys basic structure. It may frame his or her perception of the world; it may be the very condition for the aspirations, choices and possibilities in his or her lifetime.
Fragmentation of the Self:
Smeared, Smudged, Marked and Drawn
March 30- May 27, 2006
Participating artists: Nina Buxenbaum | Saul Chernick | Erica Eyres | Lynn Palewicz | Nathaniel Mary Quinn | Mary Valverde | Haeri Yoo
Identity is a physical and metaphysical construct that exists in a constant state of change. Delineated markers of identity such as culture, ethnicity, spirituality, sexuality, beauty and gender are often smeared, smudged, severed, drawn, erased, and drawn again. Nina Buxenbaum, Saul Chernick, Erica Eyres, Lynn Palewicz, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Mary Valverde, and Haeri Yoo each utilize various mediums and sub-themes to represent this perpetual state. The self, which is revealed through its relationship with others, is also revealed through each artists relationship with the materials used and themes explored. Through various means, each artists work shows how the continuous process of change in search of ones identity, often results in the fragmentation and creation of multiple selves, revealing the complexity of human nature.
God Complex: Images Of Power
February 2- March 25, 2006
Participating artists: Michael Anderson | Uraline Septembre Hager | Carlos Sandoval De Leon | Shaun El C. Leonardo | William Mwazi | Jeff Vespa
Today, longstanding ideas of power are under assault as individuals define themselves through unique subcultures and identities that defy easy assimilation into a broad consensus of subject-citizens. However, images of power and images that exert power cheap idols, cheaper bling, photo-op propaganda endure as a residual component of visual culture, and these images permeate all aspects of our media saturated, consumption driven lives, whetting appetites, fueling desire, or reinforcing imposed hierarchies of social order. The artists in God Complex: Images of Power embody the ongoing tensions between the rise of self-empowered thinking, on the one hand, and the subjugating influence of media imagery on the other. Through their artworks, they expose vulnerable points in the visual discourse of power while also exploring concepts of fundamental human weakness.
Utopian Conquest: Ideal Domination
September 9- November 5, 2005
Participating artists: Amy Chan | Deana Lawson | Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow | Eddy Steinhauer
The artists in the exhibition explore the relationship between desire and idealism and its effects on our surroundings in Utopian Conquest- Ideal Domination. Landscape and environment emerge from the background commenting on the psychology of longing, sexuality, and domination in this exhibition of sculpture, installation, photography, painting and video.
More or Less: Generating Meaning through Process
November 17, 2005- January 21, 2006
Participating artists: Jane Castillo | Yamini Nayar | Traci Tullius | Scott Andresen
This mixed media exhibition explores the translation of experience through different processes and materials and how meaning can be generated through scale, speed, quantity and technique in sculpture, photography, performance, video and quilt work.
Recess: Images and Objects in Formation
March 31- May 28, 2005
Participating artists: Leslie Hewitt | Shinique Smith | Mika Tajima | Paula Wilson
Four multi-disciplinary artists take over the gallery in Recess: Images and Objects in Formation, an exhibition that playfully moves between sculpture, painting, and video installation, as well as the aesthetics associated with high and low culture.
Freedom Fighters
January 27- March 19, 2005
Fantasy merges with American history in the Freedom Fighters Project- where fact flirts with fiction- as abolitionists of the 19th century are re-imagined on movie posters as Blaxploitation superstars. Influenced by stories of American legends, Blaxploitation iconography, and pulp fiction propaganda the freedom project fuses illustration, design, and video in this collaborative exhibition that boldly reinvents history while exploring the relationship between the real and imagined.
Duane Smith Jason Scott Jones Michael Paul Britto Arvay Adams
Homemade World: Reconstructed Images in Photography
December 2004 - January 15, 2005
Welcome to the world of homemade realities, a precarious space where identity is mediated through photographic narratives. These artists invite you to their hybrid reality, an aesthetic realm in which the unstable interplay of fact and fiction complicate the meanings invested in identity. In this world of images the lingua franca of the society of the spectacle the representation of the self is situated between received and recycled histories, private and public spaces, a modernist tradition and its postmodernist pastiche.
SunTek Chung Fiona Gardner Jenny Ham and Wardell Milan
Naked in Waiting: The Portrayal of the
Nude Black Body in Realist Painting
September 9- November 6, 2004
A provocative large-scale painting exhibition exploring nontraditional issues of representation and objectification of the nude black body: acknowledging and expounding on the traditional language of portraiture.
David Cruz Misty Lynn Hawkins Sedric E. Huckaby Sylvia Maier
Eve
April 2- May 22, 2004
Eve is a group exhibition featuring the provocative works of four women: Ina Diane Archers video installation involves the intersection of race/ethnicity, representation and technology; Aisha Tandiwe Bell experiments with multimedia installations that break through the confines of two dimensions, separating herself from the background and invading the space of the viewer; Dahlia Mahmoud presents herself as two conflicting characters in a split-screened video work rapping over hip-hop inspired Egyptian tracks; and Zoe Pettijohn creates gouaches on paper using repetition and overlapping to explore aspects of memory.
Ina Diane Archer Aisha Tandiwe Bell Dahlia Mahmood Zoe Pettijohn
All in Together Now
September 14- October 26, 2003
Participating artists: Carlos Jackson | Kalup Linzy | Lester Julian Merriweather | Jihyun Park | Carol Pereira | Anna Tsouhlarakis | William Villalongo | Arjan Zazueta |
LeRonn Brooks, Guest Essayist
At the risk of promoting an inaccurate sense of All in Together Now as a homogeneous exhibition or a site of monolithic artistic practice, the question of what, if anything, is distinctively Together about this show is an intriguing one to address as a preface to all that follows. Curated by Rush Arts Exhibitions Coordinator, Derrick Adams, All in Together Now should stand out in the purview of the contemporary art scene for its shear diversity, from the non-objective to the figurative. Composed of a diverse group of prospects early in their careers, with strong work at their feet and their best years ahead, the exhibition is in the living tradition of Rush Arts, presenting both work thats challenging and original while, as an institution, taking hold of the responsibility to put before its audience, in these troubling times, artful questions with probing everyday gravities.
Its Bigger Than Hip Hop
April 14 May 26, 2001
Paticipating artists: David Baldwin | Niya Bascomb | Kareem Black | Mark Lee Blackshear | Alexis Mariel Bobbit | Terry Boddie | Boudicon | Michael Paul Britto | Quashelle Curtis | James De La Vega | Keith Duncan | Stevenson Estime | Yuka Hirata | Jamal Ince | Lennon Jno Baptiste | Jayson Keeling | Antoine Louisgrand | Diana McClure | Stella Magloire/I-Candy | Bob E. Myers | Javad Moore | Shane Nash | Navin June Norling | Carl Posey | Leslie Powell | Shelia Prevost | Richard Rose | Sol Sax | Changamire Semakokiro | Lorenzo Steele Jr. | Eddy Steinhauer | Katro Storm | Adrienne Waheed | Kehinde Wiley | Joe Wippler | Malik Yusef | Derrick Adams, curator
Its Bigger than Hip Hop is an exhibition of contemporary paintings, sculpture and photography and video by emerging artists whose work is inspired by urban culture and/or reflect the global influence of Hip Hop in five individual styles- Hairstyle, Lifestyle, Freestyle, Wildstyle and Highstyle. The artists selected for this exhibition do not necessarily consider themselves Hip Hop artists. Although the work chosen displays strong interest , the artists has captured subject matter that display certain symbolism knkown to a genre most would categorize as hip hop. The writing on the wall becomes a language that speaks of the era we now refer to as Hip Hop. Its Bigger Than Hip Hop investigates all that is connected to this era and exposes the viewer to the many sub-cultures heavily influenced by hip hop and to give a broader understanding to the fact that there is no Webster Dictionary definition for Hip Hop because it is a culture that is constantly changing and evolving.
Artist Interview
March 24- April 22, 2000
Participating artists: Stephanie Dinkins | Alexis Mariel Bobbitt | Roberto Visani | Keith Duncan | Arvay Adams | Ana Tous | Kristen Hayes | Michael Paul Britto
An exhibition of recent works of paintings, sculpture, video installation and photography by eight young, emerging artists living in New York.
Wangechi Mutu
October 29 December 3, 1999
Wangechi Mutu isn't interested in pretty pictures. The Kenyan raised, US trained artist likes to trap her viewers with layers of visual metaphor, forcing them to question assumptions about race, gender, geography, history and beauty. A trained sculptor and anthropologist, Mutu's work has evolved from faux-artifact making (back when she favored sculpture) to a collage process that collides everyday images with mythological and historical narrative.
Dwellings
February 7 March 14, 1998
Participating artists: Louis Cameron | Yolande Daniels | Cynthia Lovett | Chris Neal | Charles Nelson | Co-Curators Derrick Adams + Sandra D. Jackson, Art Historian + Independent Curator
The artists featured in this exhibition use the notion of dwelling as a point of entry. The Websters Dictionary defines the term dwell as 1. to remain for a time; 2a: to live as a resident; b: to exist; 3: to continue in a place or condition. Though there has been a great deal of research and dialogue centered on space, this post-modernist notion of interior/exterior/public/private still remains amorphous. Dwelling being a more specific aspect of space alleviates the ambiguous stigma associated with spatial issues and connotes particularities.
Recent works by Lennon Jno Baptiste + Mfon Essien
December 6 January 24, 1997
Exhibiting paint with photography tempts us to think in terms of contradiction and paradox: one is considered more valuable while the other is believed to be more real; or one is though to involve real skill weeas the other allegedly depends on chance. This show manages to maneuver beyond questionable attributes like monetary value and Realism to explore the conceptual agreements between the two media. Here, Mfon Essiens photographs and Lennon Jno Baptistes paintings each invite viewers into a conversationi, demanding that these conversations take place on their own terms and in their own worlds.
F-Stop
1996 July 19 August 10
Jon Wise | Malik Yusef | Mfon Essien | Chuin-Kai Shuk | Mathew Doyle
Sankofa 3, Inaugural Opening
February 10, 1996
Participating artists: Derrick Adams | Sean Alexander | Joseph Buckingham Jr. | Margarita Corporan | Tracy Funches | Tony Mckissic | Michael Lee Poy | Karen Revis | Donna Russell | Corey T-Ray Stevens
