An Artist Couple Who Live Among the Furniture They Create Together
Though they maintain separate practices, Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson regularly collaborate on hand-hewn pieces that are subtly autobiographical.
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Though they maintain separate practices, Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson regularly collaborate on hand-hewn pieces that are subtly autobiographical.
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It’s time for a black owned gallery to inhabit the art world in New York in a really strong dynamic way, “ Nicola Vassell declares
Krysta Anderson ( [Many thanks to Veerle Poupeye for bringing this item to our attention through Critical.Caribbean.Art.] Nicola Vassell. The name which once echoed in the field of fashion is now ‘jaminating’ the art world. The Jamaica-born curator and art dealer recently opened her gallery located in Chelsea, New York, to the delight of aesthetes and dilettantes. The Sunday Gleaner recently caught up with the beautiful creative, post-viewing to discuss the event and Vassell’s plans for the future. “It sell off! It was fabulous!” Vassell responded in excitement at the success of her...
A rare Black-owned art gallery lands in Chelsea The entrance to Nicola Vassells new gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, May 17, 2021. After working with artists like Kehinde Wiley and advising collectors like Swizz Beatz, Vassell bucks the online trend with a brick-and-mortar space. Donavon Smallwood/The New York Times. by Robin Pogrebin (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- At a moment when equity and diversity have become paramount in the art world, Nicola Vassell, a former director of both Pace and Deitch Projects galleries in the New York City borough of Manhattan, on Thursday will open he...