Category Archives: Exhibitions

Weems' acclaimed new series opens at the Savannah College of Art and Design

October 2, 2008 – 2:00 PM
Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment, Carrie Mae Weems' critically-acclaimed new series, opens tonight at the Savannah College of Art and Design's Red Gallery, in Savannah.  The new body of work, which premiered in Atlanta in July to... Read More »
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Kambui Olujimi's The Clouds Are After Me opens in Cincinnati

October 1, 2008 – 3:06 PM
Kambui Olujimi's The Clouds Are After Me premieres October 9 at the DAAP Gallery at the University of Cincinnati.  The new body of work, consisting of approximately 300 small, painted collages, explores the anxieties and phobias that permeate the public... Read More »
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Deborah Willis releases new book, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs

September 18, 2008 – 1:50 PM
Deborah Willis has organized and curated a new book entitled Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs.  Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama's nomination as the first African American to... Read More »
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Kianga Ford premieres first solo museum exhibition

September 17, 2008 – 2:50 PM
My Life in Fiction, Kianga Ford's first solo museum exhibition, premieres September 20 at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore.  My Life in Fiction is a trilogy of new works for the gallery and an audio walk for the Mt. Vernon... Read More »
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Off Color opens in New York

September 12, 2008 – 11:00 AM
Off Color, co-curated by Kalia Brooks and Hank Willis Thomas and presented in two parts, opens on September 21 at Rush Arts Gallery in New York and the Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn.  The exhibition, which originally premiered in Miami in... Read More »
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Complete Winter in America series premieres at the de Saisset Museum

September 12, 2008 – 10:15 AM
Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi's Winter in America premieres September 27 at the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University.  The collaborative project, which consists of a stop-motion animated film and still photographs, depicts the 2000 robbery and murder... Read More »
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Ford, Ingram, and Thomas featured in 1968: Then and Now

August 29, 2008 – 3:45 PM
Deborah Willis' timely new survey, 1968: Then and Now, opens September 2 in a joint exhibition at the Nathan Cummings Foundation and New York University.1968: Then and Now explores an era when a multitude of social movements climaxed in discontent... Read More »
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Hank WIllis Thomas featured in Artists as Collectors at the Oakland Airport

July 18, 2008 – 12:15 PM
The pleasure of collecting is an activity that crosses social and economic divisions. Many people like to collect things as a form of entertainment and personal expression. Artists as Collectors, organized and curated by Oakland Museum curator Carin Adams, seeks... Read More »
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Four Women opens July 18 at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta

July 14, 2008 – 4:00 PM
In February of 1995, the J. Paul Getty Museum premiered a new body of work, Carrie Mae Weems Reacts to Hidden Witness, in conjunction with another exhibition of daguerreotypes, tintypes, and photographs of African-Americans made before, during, and after the... Read More »
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Opening Reception for She's So Articulate, June 13, Arlington Arts Center

June 15, 2008 – 9:17 AM
Artists Renee Stout, Torkwase Dyson, Djakarta, Nekisha Durrett, Jeffry Cudlin, exhibition curator, artist Claire Huschle, exhibition curator Henry Thaggert, and artists Erika Ranee and Renee Cox at the opening reception for She's So Articulate.  (Photo copyright Tony Powell.)  Following... Read More »
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