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Untitled (Cadmium),

Jean Michel Basquiat began his short but prolific career as a graffiti artist in the streets of New York. He adopted a deliberately street smart and seemingly naïve style, yet his art also contained sophisticated references to contemporary culture and art history. Basquiat drew his cryptic visual vocabulary from numerous sources ranging from ancient Egyptian […]

The Missing Book,

Looking for inspiration from the belief systems of African peoples and their descendants throughout the African Diaspora, Renee Stout embarks on an anthropological investigation characterized by self examination, self empowerment and self healing. Her suite of paintings entitled “Pretty Wings (Part 1)” consists of four works with enigmatic titles that evoke personal memories of shared […]

Destiny’s Doorman,

In the course of her career, Chakaia Booker has worked almost exclusively with recycled automobile tires rending them apart into razor-sharp, ebony ribbons with which she fashions her sculpture. Booker began working with tires in the early 1990s as an “aesthetic response to the urban landscape of Northern New Jersey.” Destiny’s Doorman is a totemic […]

No Match for Your Demons,

Looking for inspiration from the belief systems of African peoples and their descendants throughout the African Diaspora, Renee Stout embarks on an anthropological investigation characterized by self examination, self empowerment and self healing. Her suite of paintings entitled “Pretty Wings (Part 1)” consists of four works with enigmatic titles that evoke personal memories of shared […]

We Were Laughing on the Sun Porch,

Looking for inspiration from the belief systems of African peoples and their descendants throughout the African Diaspora, Renee Stout embarks on an anthropological investigation characterized by self examination, self empowerment and self healing. Her suite of paintings entitled “Pretty Wings (Part 1)” consists of four works with enigmatic titles that evoke personal memories of shared […]

We Shared a Ripe Mango,

Mixed media artwork by Renee Stout featuring a pink piece of paper taped onto a green and red surface.

Looking for inspiration from the belief systems of African peoples and their descendants throughout the African Diaspora, Renee Stout embarks on an anthropological investigation characterized by self examination, self empowerment and self healing. Her suite of paintings entitled “Pretty Wings (Part 1)” consists of four works with enigmatic titles that evoke personal memories of shared […]

Transparent Wishes,

Transparent Wishes consists of 100 cast glass wishbones cascading down the wall bearing a list of words: “after,” “remember,” “shift,” “forget,” “indulge,” “last,” “remedy,” “vary,” “recast,” “obliterate,” “deviate,” “reverse,” and “more time.” Without context, the meaning of these words is left up to the viewer. Together they comprise a list which is essentially a tool […]

The Jubilant Martyrs of Obsolescence and Ruin,

Indian Country,

Taking inspiration from Color Field painters of the 1960s, minimalism, and the jazz improvisation of Ornette Coleman, Stanley Whitney constructs his painterly grids of color by way of a “call and response,” in which one color suggests the next. This process—recalling that of Ellsworth Kelly, for whom chance and optical phenomena determined compositional structure—injects the […]

Native Tongue/Ogbe Oyeku,

Influenced by West African cultures, Fahamu Pecou’s works offer a critique on the contemporary topics of celebrity, media, and racism. Dr. Sean Meighoo coined the term “‘Fahamenology’ of performance,” describing the way Pecou’s works undo oppressive cultural structures of experience and consciousness, attempting a liberation of today’s marked male subject. Specifically, Native Tongue/Ogbe Oyeku depicts […]