In Plain Sight, Artspace Lays History Bare
Leah Andelsmith | December 4th, 2018 The first thing to catch my eye is the hair—braids, and ponytails, and puffs. It’s an image of a woman’s head and shoulders that looks almost flat, as if it was created by a stencil and black paint. But it’s a screenprint, not a stencil, which […]
Read MoreDec 7 Review | In Plain Sight/Site
Review | In Plain Sight/Site Curated by Niama Safia Sandy Artspace, 50 Orange Street, New Haven, CT ARTSPACENEWHAVEN.ORG THROUGH MARCH 2, 2019 Adama Delphine Fawundu, In the Face of History (2017-18). Dimensions variable, screenprint on paper. From the exhibition, In Plain Sight/Site. Photographer: Jessica Smolinksi. Months ago, New YorkCity-based anthropologist and curator Niama Safia […]
Read MoreArte Fuse: Sacred Star of Isis Opening. March 14. 2019
AN EXHIBITION IN NEW YORK SEEKS TO RE-CONNECT A MULTITUDE OF BLACK HISTORIES AND IDENTITIES
Adaku Nwakanma Apr. 19 2018, 3:26 pm Refraction: New Photography of Africa and Its Diaspora, a photo exhibition presenting a generation of photographic artists of African descent born in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s premiers today at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York. The exhibition, which features 12 artists residing in Luanda, Paris, Philadelphia, […]
Read MoreExhibition Review: Refraction: New Photography of Africa and its Diaspora, April 19 – June 2
By Ilana Jael Though African descent is the chief commonality among the 12 artists featured in Refraction: New Photography of Africa and its Diaspora, on view until this June 2nd at Steven Kasher Gallery, the remarkable images they have produced are as much about color as about blackness. Even the most […]
Read MoreTwo visions of African spirituality at the African American Museum, March 12, 2019
Peter Crimmins, March 12, 2019 The third-floor gallery of the African American Museum in Philadelphia is split in two, with a documentary photography show on one side and, on the other, a more imaginative show of staged and conceptual photography. The photographers – Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu – are […]
Read MorePDN: Photo of the Day, Sierra Leone Dreams and Reality
The Sacred Star of Isis and Other Stories, currently on view at The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP), explores the tension between photographer Adama Delphine Fawundu family’s traditional Mende beliefs and Westernized values. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Fawundu is of Sierra Leonean heritage and her ancestors are Mende, one of the two […]
Read MoreHyperallergic: Seven Artists and Curators Reveal a Cherished, Overlooked Black Artist, by Jasmine Weber, February 28, 2019
I asked respected art figures like Lowery Stokes Sims, Deborah Willis, and Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi to share a beloved artist with me. Jasmine Weber February 28, 2019 Deborah Willis Photographer, curator, educator, and academic who founded the Center for Black Visual Culture at New York University. “I would like for you […]
Read MoreArtspace Exhibit Takes Unblinking Look At History, by Brian Slattery, New Haven Independent, Dec 5, 2018
Artspace Exhibit Takes Unblinking Look At History by BRIAN SLATTERY | Dec 5, 2018 2:03 pm (1) Comment | Commenting has been closed | E-mail the Author Posted to: Arts & Culture, Visual Arts, Ninth Square An arrow embedded in the wall of the gallery. A cascade of disembodied hands, hanging from vines. Walls plastered with the arresting racial imagery […]
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