A Gallery Featuring Only Artists of Color Feels Like Change
“Shattered Glass” at Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles has visitors returning, and artists bonding.
From left, works by the self-taught artist Fulton Leroy Washington (a.k.a. Mr. Wash): “Emancipation Proclamation,” 2014; “Shattered Dreams,” 2020; “Targeted - Insurrection,” 2021, at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles. The artist learned to paint while he was incarcerated.Credit.Joshua White
May 11, 2021
LOS ANGELES People have come back again and again. They bring family members and friends. It isn’t often that a gallery show engenders such strong responses. But this one feels different, because every face in every painting belongs to a person of color. Every piece of art was created by a person of color. And the exhibition was organized by two young people of color curating their first major show.
Sandra Bernhard Talks to Her Neighborhood Trees
And how Thelma Golden and Isaac Mizrahi have stayed sane and creative during the pandemic.
Sandra Bernhard at a gala for the Hudson River Park Trust in 2019.Credit.Krista Schlueter for The New York Times
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Sandra Bernhard
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Where have you been during this whole thing?
Last summer my girlfriend, Sara, and I were in Vermont, the Hudson River Valley and Bellport on Long Island, but we have not been anywhere since then, just hunkered down in Chelsea.
Price: $2,000
An eroded US dollar banknote deconstructing money as representational medium and cancelling its value. This work belongs to Woodgate s investigation into the role of automation and its consequences for labor and value.
Agustina Woodgate,
K13277993D, 2021. 12 cm x 22 cm x 1.5 cm, Hand-sanded $1 US banknote in acrylic case. Courtesy of the artist and Barro
Alannah Farrell (Anat Ebgi)
Price: $ 3,000
Neither celebratory nor heroic, Alannah Farrell’s sensitive portraits portray their friends and queer community in moments of solitary contemplation, finding a productive space in reconstruction and the painful process of becoming.
Alannah Farrell,
Room 13, 2020. 47 cm x 58 cm, Watercolor on paper. Courtesy of the artist and Anat Ebgi
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