National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens

EΜΣΤ is pleased to announce the first solo presentation in Greece of the critically acclaimed photographer Lola Flash. Working at the forefront of queer visual politics for more than four decades, photographer Lola Flash’s work challenges stereotypes and gender, sexual, and racial preconceptions. An active member of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) during the time of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, Flash was notably featured in the 1989 “Kissing Doesn’t Kill” poster. Their art and activism are profoundly connected, fueling a life-long commitment to visibility and preserving the legacy of LGBTQIA+ and communities of colour worldwide.

SALT (2011–ongoing) is a series of portraits that feature iconic women aged over seventy, who have had a quiet impact on their respective worlds and are still passionately engaged in their life’s work. In a culture where beauty is equated with youth, these women are not only beautiful but accomplished and making significant contributions to society. This intimate portrait series reflects their wisdom, attractiveness and power which is often disregarded because of ageism.

The subjects of the exhibition include, among others, Tony Parks, photographer and daughter of legendary photographer Gordon Parks; Koho, a master sumi-e painter; and renowned activist Esther Cooper Jackson. The portraits were taken where their subjects felt most at home, in order to capture the texture of their private lives.

SALT aims to challenge the erasure and invisibility that older women experience and to highlight the deep-rooted cultural and social biases that remove them from the public sphere. Flash works in the tradition of twentieth-century portraiture, using a 4×5 large format camera, as they believe that this process conveys the importance of the sitting to the subject, and yields a truer image.

https://www.emst.gr/en/exhibitions-en/lola-flash-salt

On View: June 26 – August 18, 2024

Opening Party: Wednesday, June 26 from 5–8PM

The Bronx Museum is a site of creative making and self-expression. The Making Room exhibition documents, celebrates, and extends that role—presenting artworks from participants in the Museum’s education programs along with works from the permanent collection and interactive elements.

Specifically, this exhibition highlights work by participants in Lifelong Studio, an art-making program for adults 55 and older, as well as by participants in Teen Council, a paid afterschool art program for high schoolers. The artworks produced by participants in these programs are rooted in their varied life experiences and explore personal narratives, memories, and modes of self-expression—within the context of the Museum.

The exhibition interpretive materials for Making Room are produced collaboratively by Bronx Museum Education Staff Members with participants in Lifelong Studio and Teen Council.

The exhibition is curated by Patrick Rowe, Director of Education and Public Engagement, and Nell Klugman, Associate Director of Education and Public Engagement.

Event page here.

Opening Thursday, June 13, 5–8 PM

Photographers Lola Flash and Alice O’Malley are both veterans of women’s clubs and AIDS activism in 1990s New York. Howl! Happening is pleased to present their individually curated slide shows, primarily featuring images from that indelible decade, displayed on opposite walls of the gallery.

By 1990, photo slide shows had become a nearly instant, affordable way to celebrate queer beauty and militant eroticism within our clubhouses. Group empowerment and reflecting our unity were crucial during those heady years. We railed against censorship and queer phobia, while AIDS ravaged friends, family, and lovers, because we had no effective medicines to suppress it and a government that vilified us. These photographs gave us visibility and strength. Come see.

In addition, the exhibition will feature a constellation of prints from Alice O’Malley’s slide show, along with Lola Flash’s vibrant metal portraits of downtown New York LEGENDS and a trio of images from her surmise series.

https://www.howlarts.org/event/lola-flash-and-alice-omalley/

Now in its second iteration, this biennial exhibition, produced by Mighty Real/Queer Detroit, explores the mirroring relationship between art and self as well as art and communities. The exhibition highlights the role of art in achieving personal visibility and social connection.

Art reveals who we are. And the mirroring power of art is key to creating positive and meaningful representations of LGBTQ+ folk. I’ll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer examines timeless issues, which are especially relevant in the current political atmosphere when the freedom to express visibility is under mounting assault.

I'll Be Your Mirror: Reflections of the Contemporary Queer will run from Friday, May 31, to Sunday, June 30, in various Detroit galleries.

https://www.mrqd.org/

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is presenting an OPEN CALL Members Exhibition in Spring 2024. The Spring show showcases 100 artists in celebration of Jo & Edward's 100th Wedding Anniversary this year. The exhibition is presented in 2 parts, each showing 50 artists – Part I: May 2 to 26, 2024 and Part 2: May 30 to June 16, 2024 – in the Edward Hopper House galleries.

Artists in Part I: May 2 to 26, 2024
Ben Asen, Keith Bernstein, Carol Bouyoucos, Eileen Brady Nelson, Jean Marie Bucich, Kate Buggeln, Miggs Burroughs, Joyce Byrnes, Barbara Cantatore, Patricia Catanzaro, Diane Churchill, Robin Cross-Keller, Heather Douglas, Shaina Dunn, Janet Dyer, Nils Erickson, Elise Fechtmann, Dan Fiore, Collette Fournier, Richard Alan Fox, Agnès Girard - Pagano, Art Gunther, Brian Hart, Brian Higbee, Roger Hirsch, William Jobson, Samuel Kaplan, Gosha Karpowicz, Jane Kelman, Renee Khatami, Oxana Kovalchuck, Carole Kunstadt, Anne Marie Leone, Beverly Miller, Debbie Mueller, Lisa Noble, Maxine Nodel, Kate E.  O'Hara, Teresa Pereira, Janet Pirozzi-Riolo, Alan Richards RockwellB, Mitchell Rodbell, Diane Rosen, Elaine  Schloss, Aya Shiraishi, Marlene Siff, Ann Wang, Richard Wilshe, Kostas Zelkas

Artists in Part 2: May 30 to June 16, 2024
Nina Ansaldi, Sue Barrasi, Robert Belfry, Stephanie Berger, Kraig Binkowski, Kenneth Burns, Anthony Campbell, Charles Compo, Judith Debiase, Sheryl Renee Dobson, Béatrice Duroure, Linda Eckstein, Melissa Eder, Christopher Ekstrom, Herbert Fillmore, Fernanda Franco, Sally Frank, Suzanna Frosch, Trine Giaever, Barbara Hammel, Frederick Hodder, Monroe Hodder, Joan Hooker, Susan Lais Hostetler, Warren Irwin, Lisa Kachajian, Susan Kaprov, Mary King, Ann Kinney, Valerie Kleiner, Eric David Laxman, Youngheui Lee Lim, Barbara Ludwig, Daniel Lukens, Karen Maloof, Henry Mende, Victor Mirabelli, Tammy Murphy, James Offenhartz, Laurie Peek, Tim Peterson, George Radwan, Marybeth Rothman, Nancy A. Scherl, Lorella Schoales, Donald Steinmetz, Susan Tabachnick, Uyen Tieu, Michael Washburn, Will Whitehurst

Ann Street Gallery is proud to host this extended multi-media art exhibition conceived by Co-Curators Jonette O’Kelley Miller and Karen E. Gersch. ‘Cause We Be Complicated: Dialogues of Black Artists honors Black History and features sixteen extraordinary visual artists. Originally installed at Art Design Spirits Gallery for the month of February; it has seen a stellar draw of visitors and received glowing articles in Chronogram, Times Herald Record, The Poughkeepsie Journal, Hudson Valley News and Arts Mid-Hudson.

The participating artists (at the time of this release) are: Lillian Alberti, Carol Bash, Vernon M. Byron, Khalidah Carrington, Gerardo Castro, Melissa Small Cooper, Ted Dixon, Stevenson Estime, Collette V. Fournier, Oluwafiropo Margaret Ibitoye, F. Geoffrey Johnson, Cheryl D. Miller, Emmanuel Ofori, Ransome, Yvonne P. Lamar Rogers and Auguster D. Williams, Jr.

Learn more here.

HOUSE OF REASONED TRUTHS

Curated by Kisito Assangni

Works by Halida Boughriet (Algeria); Cesar Schofield Cardoso (Cape Verde); Djibril Drame (Senegal); Victor Mutelekesha (Zambia); Harold Offeh (Ghana); Minnette Vari (South Africa); Haythem Zakaria (Tunisia).

See more here.

In collaboration with Two by Two Media, Carter Burden Gallery presents a group exhibition featuring nine celebrated female artists, photographers Flo Fox, West Murray, Donna Bassin, Meryl Meisler, Donna Ferrato and Salimah Ali, along with paintings by Sheila Schwid, sculptures by Edwina Sandys, and a performance piece by Tziporah Salamon.

Marlena Vaccaro, Director and Curator of Carter Burden Gallery, states, “This partnership with Two by Two Media is a tribute to the pioneering women artists featured within Carter Burden Gallery’s walls. These remarkable individuals are not just creators of beautiful art; they are the living legacy upon which subsequent generations of women artists have built their dreams and ambitions. As Maya Angelou eloquently said, "Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women." The artists showcased in this exhibition have, through their work, made generations of women artists feel they could carve their path, become integral parts of the ever-evolving art world, and lead the conversations that shape its future.

As we embark on this exhibition journey, we invite you to join us in celebrating the timeless artistry of these important women artists, and in making this exhibition a testament to the indomitable spirit of art, collaboration, and the belief that creativity knows no bounds. Together, we can forge a brighter, more inclusive future for all artists, regardless of gender or age.”

Meet the Artist Events for Two by Two Media: Thursday, October 19 & October 26, 6 - 8pm

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Presented at Art + Practice

Artist residencies are an important tool for artists to explore site-oriented practices and experience firsthand particular places and cultures. Bahia Reverb: Artists and Place presents the work of ten former fellows at the Sacatar Institute in Bahia, Brazil, all from North America and of African descent, to reflect on how Bahia, an epicenter of the African diaspora, has fueled their work and changed their understanding of themselves.

The artists are Sandra Brewster, Gerald Cyrus, Rik Freeman, Juan Erman Gonzalez, Mark Steven Greenfield, Karen Hampton, Germaine Ingram, Francis Tre Lawrence, Precious Lovell, and Tim Whiten.

This exhibition is curated by Bia Gayotto, independent curator, artist, and writer, and is co-presented by CAAM and Art + Practice as part of CAAM at A+P, a five-year collaboration.

See the event page here, and press release here.

This announcement originally appeared in a newsletter from The Outwin

The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today

Finalists Announced in Sixth Triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition

Selected Artworks Will Be Exhibited in Major Exhibition and Tour

Kamoinge Member Adama Delphine Fawundu selected as a finalist.

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The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the finalists in the sixth triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Their work will be presented in “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today,” a major exhibition premiering at the National Portrait Gallery from April 30, 2022, through Feb. 26, 2023, before traveling to other cities in the United States. 

Every three years, artists living and working in the United States are invited to submit one of their recent portraits to a panel of experts chosen by the museum. The 42 finalists in this year’s edition were selected from more than 2,700 entries. The first-prize winner, to be announced in the spring, will receive a cash award of $25,000 and a commission to create a portrait of a living person for the museum’s permanent collection.

The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition encourages artists living and working across the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands to submit work that challenges traditional definitions of portraiture.

This year’s competition received entries in a variety of media, including painting, photography, assemblage, sculpture, performance and time-based media. The winning artworks not only reflect the evolving democratization of portraiture but also underscore the genre’s ability to tell once-hidden stories. Finalists represent 14 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Seven artists have been shortlisted for prizes. The winners and allotted prize amounts will be announced at the press preview April 29, 2022. Previous first-prize winners have been David Lenz (2006), Dave Woody (2009), Bo Gehring (2013), Amy Sherald (2016) and Hugo Crosthwaite (2019).

“The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition was founded to support the next wave of contemporary portraiture in the United States,” said Kim Sajet, director of the National Portrait Gallery. “The diversity of this edition’s entries, from geographic origin to subject matter and media, reflects both the multifaceted story of the United States today and the unique perspectives and lenses through which contemporary artists see that story. Produced in the past three years, it is no surprise that the art provides a powerful affirmation of the human experience focused on the pain of the COVID-19 pandemic, demands for social justice, personal isolation, familial ties, community support, love and loss.”

Guest jurors for this competition are Kathleen Ash-Milby, curator of Native American art, Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Catherine Opie, artist, professor of photography and chair of the art department at the University of California, Los Angeles; Ebony G. Patterson, artist, Chicago and Kingston, Jamaica; and John Yau, poet, critic and professor of critical studies, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Jersey. Members of the jury from the National Portrait Gallery include Taína Caragol, curator of painting and sculpture and Latinx art and history; Leslie Ureña, curator of photographs; and Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture and coordinating curator for the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.

Caragol is the director of the 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition and is co-curating the exhibition “The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today” with Ureña.

The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition is made possible by the Virginia Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Endowment, established by Virginia Outwin Boochever and continued by her children.

Curated by Sergio Bessa.

Starting at the young age of fifteen, Brooklyn born photographer Jamel Shabazz identified early on the core subject of his lifelong investigation: the men and women, young and old, who invest the streets of New York City with a high degree of theater and style, mixing traditions and cultures. Despite following a celebrated tradition of street photography that includes Gordon Parks, Garry Winogrand, and Lee Friedlander, it is to his credit that Shabazz has been one of the first photographers to realize the joyous, infectious potential of youth culture in neighborhoods such as East New York, Cypress Hill, East Flatbush and Bed-Stuy. A formidable archive of New York’s diverse communities in the outer boroughs, this exhibition pays homage to Jamel Shabazz’s illustrious career of over forty years documenting the vibrant interaction of New Yorkers with their neighborhoods. 

http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/jamel-shabazz-eyes-on-the-street

Street Photography Festival – 2022

The Los Angeles Center of Photography is pleased to announce its Eighth Annual Street Photography Festival.

Kamoinge member Gerald Cyrus will be speaking at the Festival on Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
 

For full event information, click here.

Opening Reception on Saturday, April 2, 2022; On view through June 11, 2022 in Gallery

One and Gallery Two, Rockland Center for the Arts

27 So. Greenbush Rd. W. Nyack, NY 10994; Info: 845-358-0877; www.rocklandartcenter.org

In honor of Black History, LACP is proud to produce the pop-up exhibition “Fresh As ____”: Photographic Meditations from the Black Vanguard (Regarding A New Esthetic)” The exhibition is curated by Los Angeles-based photographer Ali LeRoi and Philadelphia-based photographer Shawn Theodore. Six talented artists were carefully selected to participate.

Kamoinge member Gerald Cyrus is amongst the six artists showing at the pop-up exhibit.

The exhibition will be on display at Sovern, 5757 West Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016, showing March 25-27, 2022. An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, March 24, 7-10 pm PST, 2022. Please RSVP for the reception HERE.

Photographs by Jamel Shabazz from 1980 - 1990. At the Bene Taschen Gallery in Cologne, Germany.

From March 4th - May 28th. Curated by Bene Taschen.

Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present Adger Cowans: Footsteps, an exhibition of the artist’s photographs from 1955 to today. Featuring over thirty vintage and modern prints, Footsteps is the artist’s first solo New York gallery exhibition since 1985.

Carver Museum Presents the First Career Retrospective of iconic photographer Jamel Shabazz: Peace to the Queen

About this event

Legendary photographer, humanitarian, and educator Jamel Shabazz will present his first career retrospective, Peace to the Queen at the Carver Museum. The exhibit spans four-decades of work by the artist and features portraits of women of color that are candid, artful, and often intimate. At a moment when Black and Brown women are more visibly leading the charge around movements for racial and economic justice—Peace to the Queen has materialized and aligned at a critical moment in American history and Jamel Shabazz’s resurgent career.

Peace to the Queen signals a major turning point for the City of Austin operated Carver Museum that has emerged as a formidable Black Arts institution in the Southwest region. Doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, Ja’nell Ajani is the lead curator of this groundbreaking collection of work by Jamel Shabazz. She is an alumna of Spelman College and has earned graduate degrees in African Studies and Studio Art/Photography from New York University.

The opening reception will take place from 6:30 - 9:00 pm on Thursday, February 24, 2022. Registration via Eventbrite is strongly encouraged, but not required.

Brooklyn native, Jamel Shabazz (b.1960) picked up his first camera at the age of 15 and began to document his peers. Inspired by photographers Leonard Freed, James Van Der Zee, Gordon Parks, and their compelling documentation of Black culture— he sought to build on the legacy of their work. Using the public spaces of New York City as his backdrop, Shabazz embarked on a journey to document and affirm the dignity of communities devastated by Reaganomics, the War on Drugs, and the continued criminalization of poor people. From this work, a hallmark style emerged along with some of his most iconic photographs.

Today, Jamel Shabazz’s work extends far beyond the public streets, parks, and subways of New York City and includes a robust portfolio of commercial, fashion, documentary, and fine art photography that has been exhibited around the world.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jamel-shabazz-peace-to-the-queen-exhibit-opening-tickets-241463743557

Curated by Dexter Wimberly

Jamel Shabazz is a rare photographer whose work stands as a testament to the lived experiences of Black people in America for over 40 years. His impressive oeuvre is engaging and highly recognizable. This exhibition brings together selections from Shabazz's extensive archive of photographs.

The son of a veteran, Shabazz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He picked up his first camera at the age of 15 and soon after began photographing his friends and relatives. As Shabazz's practice evolved, the streets and the New York City subway system also became the backdrop for many of his photographs. Shabazz has drawn inspiration from noted studio and documentary photographers, most influentially Leonard Freed, as well as James VanDerZee, Gordon Parks, Robert Capa, and Eli Reed.

Shabazz has stated that his goal is to contribute to the preservation of world history and culture. Reflections of a People offers a glimpse into a past time and place, capturing moments of Black life for future generations.

https://www.ganttcenter.org/exhibitions/reflections-of-a-people-photographs-from-the-archive-of-jamel-shabazz/

Bellarmine Hall Galleries

January 28 – June 18, 2022

Adger Cowans (American, b. 1936) is celebrated as one of the founding members of the Black photographers' group called Kamoinge. Curated by Halima Taha, PhD, this exhibition will explore how Cowans uses photography as a vehicle to articulate beauty within the human condition, and the world in which we live, and will feature over fifty works from across his illustrious career as a photographer of portraiture, landscape, and film.

https://www.fairfield.edu/museum/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/adger-cowans/index.html

BAM Sign on the corner of Lafayette and Flatbush in Brooklyn

“Salvation: A State of Being” is a group exhibition that meditates on how Black artists utilize their practice as a forum to reflect and express notions of self-love, self-esteem, self-determination, and self-actualization. Inspired by the seminal text by the late trailblazing Black feminist and author bell hooks, Salvation: Black People and Love, this exhibition seeks to explore how Black image-making actively functions as a vehicle of resistance against the dehumanization of Black people and a device to guide us toward an expansive view of the Black imagination.

“Salvation: A State of Being” is also an homage to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by offering two questions for us to ponder: What is love? What is next in the journey toward liberation? Ossei-Mensah invites these seven photographers to reflect on these queries and share works from their oeuvres that best engage with these ideas and provide further food for thought as we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and start 2022.