6 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Gerald Jackson’s collages; Precious Okoyomon’s reimagined ecosystem; Damien Davis’s sculptures; Beverly Buchanan’s “shacks”; and more.
Daisy May Sheff’s “Stiff and Tawny Wavelets,” from 2021, at White Columns.Credit.Daisy May Sheff
April 28, 2021
Through May 15. White Columns, 91 Horatio Street, Manhattan, (212) 924-4212, whitecolumns.org.
In its pairings of large and small shows, White Columns has come up with some extraordinary combinations, but its present one is especially excellent. The larger exhibition reintroduces the veteran artist and poet Gerald Jackson, now in his mid-80s, whose work was fearlessly multimedia long before it became the thing to do. The smaller show, “A Mountain Girl With Skyblue Teeth,” is the New York debut of a young painter, Daisy May Sheff, whose layered fantasies exude an overheated Fauvism of oranges, pinks, purples and greens populated by eccentric personages all in a style best descr
What Beverly Buchanan’s ‘Shacks’ Tell Us about the Black South
At Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, the late artist’s drawings and sculptures celebrate the spirit and history of southern Black communities
Later in her artistic life, Beverly Buchanan turned her attention to making a series of diminutive, makeshift sculptures known as ‘shacks’. For this compact but comprehensive exhibition, ‘Beverly Buchanan: Shacks and Legends 1985–2011’, at Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, curator Aurélie Bernard Wortsman homes in on the artist’s almost-anthropological pursuit of self-built residences and the rural African Americans who lived in them across the southern US.
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The Art World at Home: Shed Curator Emma Enderby Is Doing Virtual Studio Visits, and Watching TV With Her Cats
Enderby is currently at work on the latest iteration of the Shed s Open Call exhibition series.
Emma Enderby. Photo: Jeremy Liebman.
In December, the Shed, the multi-platform New York cultural center in Hudson Yards, announced the 27 artists who has been chosen for its latest “Open Call” series of exhibitions and events. Each artist receives up to $15,000 to realize a project through the Shed, and among the winners are Emilie Gossiaux, Leslie Cuyjet, and Esteban Jefferson.
We caught up with Emma Enderby, the center’s chief curator, to learn about her role in the project, why she loves her windowsill, and how she developed a newfound approach to time.
On Exhibit
The Appleton Museum of Art, a campus of the College of Central Florida, is pleased to announce the exhibit “Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art,” celebrating the passion of a couple who spent more than 35 years as devoted connoisseurs, building a collection of vivid artworks that are both resonant and remarkably personal. “Memories & Inspiration” is on view at the Appleton from January 30 through March 28.
“Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art” presents 62 selected works from a body of art amassed over 35 years. Kerry, a retired mailman, and Betty, a former television news producer, gladly gave up many ordinary comforts in order to live with extraordinary paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures as their principal luxuries. Their collection includes works by Radcliffe Bailey, Romare Bearden, Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Ernest T. Crichlow, Sam Gill