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In the decades since engineers first blanketed the Los Angeles River with concrete, working-class communities along its armored banks have struggled with blight, poverty and crowding unintended consequences perhaps of an epic bid to control Mother Nature.
Now, as many of these neighborhoods suffer disproportionately higher rates of infection from COVID-19 and as the nation seeks to atone for racial and institutional injustices laid bare in the police killing of George Floyd famed architect Frank Gehry has unveiled a bold plan to transform the river into more than just a concrete flood channel and establish it as an unprecedented system of open space.
Everson Museum of Art announces new acquisitions
Courtney Leonard, Breach #2, 2016. Ceramic on wood pallet, 36 x 36 x 48 inches. Everson Museum of Art; Museum purchase, Deaccession Fund, 2020.15.
SYRACUSE, NY
.- The Everson Museum of Art announced today that it has purchased seven new works by contemporary artists for its growing collection of 21st century art.
Spanning a variety of media, the new acquisitions reflect the Eversons commitment to refining and diversifying its collection by adding works by artists of color, women artists, and other under-represented emerging and mid-career artists. The works are by artists who hail from across the country, but also include two artists who have lived and worked in Syracuse for decades: Ellen Blalock and Sharif Bey. Blalock previously exhibited her work at the Everson during 2012s The Other New York and Bey will have a major solo exhibition at the Everson in 2022. Its truly an honor to have my work represented in the permane
Karen Carson s first solo show at Gavlak Los Angeles explores her expansive five-decade career
Karen Carson, Untitled #20, 2018.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-GAVLAK Los Angeles is presenting Karen Carson: Middle Ground, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery running from January 9 through March 6, 2021. Centered around her current bas relief works and her early zipper series, both bodies of work deploy geometric configurations to explore the convergence of gender, nature and the material world. The exhibitions title refers to the interplay between these two series; both operate as key historical markers that speak to Carsons artistic importance for the past five decades, creating work with an expansive visual language that has engaged contemporary issues and political culture in myriad ways.
50 Years After His Big Debut, Watts-Bred Artist Timothy Washington Gets His Due
The 74-year-old’s spiritual, Afrofuturist assemblage sculptures are in high demand among collectors, curators, and celebrities
Fifty years ago, Timothy Washington had a breakout moment when the then-24-year-old’s anti-war engravings of oval-eyed Black figures were featured in
Three Graphic Artists, the first survey devoted to Black artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. “I felt very honored to be in the show and very proud. People were very kind,” the soft-spoken Watts native says. “But in my mind, very little has happened because of that show.”
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