Arcade Project

02/24/2021

We are happy to announce @cobykennedy ‘s Jimmy Crow and the Imaginary Thug, a solo exhibition of sculptural and 2D studio work by multidisciplinary artist Coby Kennedy opening on Thursday, February 25, 2021 at @superchiefgalleryny. The show, which serves as the New York based creative's second solo outing with the gallery, centers around a narrative of afrofuturism, born from America's dark history of racial conflict and set in a near future world directly reflecting today’s mass media & propaganda.

This is a great opportunity to see Kennedy’s work in person, who is also on view at our CURRENT| UNDERCURRENT show.

#apzine #contemporaryart #mixedmediaart #Blackart #Blackartist #curatorlife #Newyorkart

02/23/2021

We are pleased to announce that Kimberly Becoat’s work is featured in LatchKey Gallery’s exhibition Last Supper, a group exhibition curated by Tamecca Seril. This is a great opportunity to see in person her variety of art materials and her investigation of urban displacement. Make sure to join a virtual conversation tonight at 7 pm! (Details below)

The exhibition at LatchKey Gallery will simultaneously be on view by appointment at 323 Canal Street, NYC and in special partnership at Industry City, Brooklyn, from February 9 – March 20, 2021. Showcasing the works of twelve Black female artists working across multiple mediums, Last Supper is a celebration of fellowship. The exhibition considers a deep history of Black Woman artists’ finding solace in one another, and organizing and materializing movements through radical thinking, innovation, and experimentation within and out of the art establishment. The works presented explore themes of representation and cultural histories, experiences, and perceptions. 

Arielle Dannielle
Cheers To You, Friendsgiving,
Acrylic on unstretched canvas,
84 x 129.5 in

TODAY at 7pm there will be a Virtual Dinner Party Series Celebrating the "Last Supper" Exhibition hosted by LatchKey Gallery co-founder Natalie Kates

Artists; Ashante Kindle, Ify Chiejina, Kimberly Becoat and Turiya Magadlela.

Zoom Details:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84917388227?pwd=NDJoY29HNlEzT2U3SXdITkZnSGlnZz09

Meeting ID: 849 1738 8227
Passcode: 975491

@latchkey_gallery
#lastsupper_LKG #latchKey_gallery #industrycity #apzine #contemporaryart #mixedmediaart #Blackart #Blackartist #curatorlife #Newyorkart #LESart

02/17/2021

Davis Rios Ferreira exposes the horrors of colonialism and the North Atlantic Slave Trade by subverting the shipping industry's iconography. The detail, depicting sailors throwing an African captive overboard, makes one recall the 1840 painting Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) by J. W. M. Turner. The painting depicts the Zong, a British ship whose captain, in 1781, threw enslaved Africans overboard to collect insurance money only available for those "lost at sea."

Open our minds as we cast away, 2017
48” x 20” x 38” in.
Overhead transparencies mounted on acetate and plexiglass

Sponsored by New England Public Media (NEPM) and the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

#apzine #contemporaryart #mixedmedia #Blackart #Blackartist #curatorlife

02/15/2021

"Once Overlooked, Black Abstract Painters Are Finally Given Their Due"

Amazing article about Black abstract painters that includes Rashid Johnson’s “Anxious Red Painting” series. Check out his “Anxious Red Drawings” in CURRENT | UNDERCURRENT at the Hampden Gallery at UMass Amherst. Curated by M. Charlene Stevens and Linda Griggs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/t-magazine/black-abstract-painters.html

02/05/2021

CURRENT | UNDERCURRENT Curated by M. Charlene Stevens and Linda Griggs.

February 1 to May 17, 2021

Kimberly Becoat’s Seneca Village series explores Central Park as a site of repeated violence against Black people. The park’s history begins with the destruction of the Black community of Seneca Village to make room for a park that would mostly benefit New York’s wealthy white residents. A statue honoring J. Marion Sims—the “father of gynecology”—was removed from Central Park in 2018. The statue and its dedication made no mention of the enslaved African women Sims experimented upon without consent or anesthetic. The Central Park Five, a 1989 case of five wrongfully convicted Black teens, resulted in young Black men spending years of their lives in prison. In 2020, Amy Cooper attempted to weaponize the police against a birdwatching Black man and merely asked her to keep her dog on a leash.

01/29/2021

David Henry Nobody Jr’s Resemblages — Arcade Project

David Henry Nobody Jr’s Resemblages: "UNIT LONDON is pleased to present David Henry Nobody Jr’s latest series, on view within Platform, their online gallery initiative. The series is available for viewing on the Platform site through Jan 31." https://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/features/david-henry-nobody-jrs-resemblages

UNIT LONDON is pleased to present David Henry Nobody Jr’s latest series, on view within Platform, their online gallery initiative. The series is available for viewing on the Platform site through Jan 31.

01/27/2021

The Stem, The Flower, The Root, The Seed — Arcade Project

The Stem, The Flower, The Root, The Seed by William Corwin: "The Stem, The Flower, The Root, The Seed is Nyeema Morgan’s solo exhibition at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, on view through January 29, 2021. Morgan plays with the slippery quality of text to lead our minds astray." https://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/features/the-stem-the-flower-the-root-the-seed

The Stem, The Flower, The Root, The Seed is Nyeema Morgan’s solo exhibition at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, on view through January 29, 2021. Morgan plays with the slippery quality of text to lead our minds astray.

01/02/2021

"Arcade Project Curatorial is pleased to announce our Winter Benefit Show, an online exhibition of work by 25 artists with everything priced at $1000 or less. @artsy

@arcadeproject_curatorial

https://www.artsy.net/show/arcade-project-curatorial-winter-benefit-show?sort=partner_show_position&fbclid=IwAR2fx7qzreWCIYSdEUSRKHw7udhMnBU-p5Sf31ImLIJmuQpCwbydezFv2tQ

https://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/exhibitions/winter-benefit-show?fbclid=IwAR1Jow8KW1ecfRie3Gw4yeQf2XgMjAHP-Aj4XcOG5f3-XUerW7tBl5sk0mQ

12/25/2020

"Arcade Project Curatorial is pleased to announce our Winter Benefit Show, an online exhibition of work by 25 artists with everything priced at $1000 or less. Proceeds from this show will go towards funding Arcade Project for the coming year and supporting the participating artists. The show runs through 1/31/21 on Artsy. Check it out via the link in our Linktree!"

12/10/2020

Thursday, December 10
Price: Free
Time: 6 p.m.

MCLPresented by MASS MoCA @massmoca and the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) at MCLA, "In Session" is a series of four-panel discussions on anti-racist work in museums, streamed live on MASS MoCA’s YouTube and Facebook. The first two sessions will invite artists, curators, and arts administrators to discuss how museums and artists represent Black and Brown trauma in artwork, exhibitions, and performances, and navigate the resulting implications and challenges.
@artnet
#berkshireculturalresourcecenter
#arcadeproject
#apzine
#inconversation
#blacklivesmatter

12/09/2020

Arcade Project’s founder and editor-in-chief M. Charlene Stevens (@voodess) is giving a talk tonight starting at 6:30 EST as part of Paradice Palase’s (@paradicepalase) “Hustle Habit” series! RSVP at http://bit.ly/hustlehabit-mcharlenestevens

12/08/2020

December 8, 2020 – January 11, 2021

Opening events December 8 and 9, 6-8 pm
Sapar Contemporary is delighted to present new works by Marela Zacarías and the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. The exhibition, titled “Lifted,” is also the grand finale of this trying and tumultuous year, a crescendo that is colorful, uplifting, and nuanced. @saparcontemporary
Curated by Barbara Stehle, Ph.D.
@marelazacarias
#dorasomosa
#arcadeproject
#apzine
#instalation

12/04/2020

The 2020 Awakening featured more than 100 billboards by over 85 artists in all 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. @forfreedoms

#edgarheapofbirds
#donaldjudd
#joshuaobawoleallen

#arcadeproject
@apzine
@billboards

11/20/2020

Shows You May Have Missed: Trenton Doyle Hancock at James Cohan — Arcade Project

Shows You May Have Missed: Trenton Doyle Hancock at James Cohan by Chris Bors: “Trenton Doyle Hancock’s two-part exhibition Something American at James Cohan’s Tribeca and Lower East Side locations was an impressive, arresting, and inventive entryway into the artist’s mind: a tumultuous world of conflict and resolution.” https://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/features/shows-you-may-have-missed-trenton-doyle-hancock-at-james-cohan

Trenton Doyle Hancock’s two-part exhibition Something American at James Cohan’s Tribeca and Lower East Side locations was an impressive, arresting, and inventive entryway into the artist’s mind: a tumultuous world of conflict and resolution.

11/04/2020

All In: Murals for Democracy

As part of the multi-faceted promotional campaign for the Amazon Prime Video documentary ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY (dir. Liz Garbus @lizfgarbus and Lisa Cortés @misscortes), ICU Art – In Creative Unity, along with Chuck Agency @chuck.agency, produced a series of murals encouraging voter participation.
#allinthefightfordemocracy
#muralart
#arcadeproject
#apzine

11/02/2020

All In: Murals for Democracy — Arcade Project

“As part of the multi-faceted promotional campaign for the Amazon Prime Video documentary ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY (dir. Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés), ICU Art – In Creative Unity, along with Chuck Agency, produced a series of murals encouraging voter participation."

As part of the multi-faceted promotional campaign for the Amazon Prime Video documentary ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY , ICU Art – In Creative Unity, along with Chuck Agency, produced a series of murals encouraging everyone to vote.

11/02/2020

ABSCONDED: An Election Day Performance by DRAGONFLY — Arcade Project

“On November 3, 2020, DRAGONFLY (Robin LaVerne Wilson / Miss Justice Jester) will perform ABSCONDED #EjectionDay2020, a work that honors the life and legacy of Ona Maria Judge Staines through the creation of a living monument that moves through the streets of New York City."

On November 3, 2020, DRAGONFLY (Robin LaVerne Wilson / Miss Justice Jester) will perform ABSCONDED #EjectionDay2020 , a work that honors the life and legacy of Ona Maria Judge Staines through the creation of a living monument that moves through the streets of New York City.

10/30/2020

A massive mural featuring 20,000 of Trump's lies has been installed in Soho
@timeoutnewyork

This mural is a collaboration by Tom Tenney @tomtenney the executive director of Radio Free Brooklyn @radiofreebk, and Bushwick artist and photographer Phil Buehler @pwbuehler.

#VOTE
#WALLOFLIES
@washingtonpost
@radiofreebk
#bushwick
#2020election
#brooklyn
#brooklynnews
#bklyn
#bushwickbrooklyn
#artinbrooklyn
#streetart
#publicart

@bk_reader
@pwbuehler
@thevillagesun
@koshadillz

10/26/2020

Generative Death in The Ruins — Arcade Project

Media artist Claudia Hart cites Haraway as an influence on her show The Ruins at bitforms gallery. Like Haraway’s cyborgs, Hart’s artworks defy simple categorization, existing simultaneously in virtual and physical spaces and drawing from sources as disparate as Matisse, memento mori still-life, and video games.

Arcade Project’s M. Charlene Stevens sat down with Claudia Hart to discuss her work’s place in art history and why this Eurocentric and patriarchal history needs to die so that new ways of seeing and thinking can potentially thrive.

10/26/2020

Catherine Edelman Gallery opened "What is Home?" on September 11 featuring works by Keliy Anderson-Staley, Omar Imam and Rubén Martín de Lucas. The exhibition closes this Saturday!

10/23/2020

‘I Voted’ Stickers for Everyone Who Needs One

‘I Voted’ Stickers for Everyone Who Needs One. A New York Magazine collaboration with 48 artists.

A New York Magazine collaboration with 48 artists

10/22/2020

From Plaster to Plastic, Artists Take Inventive Approaches to Face Masks

In Denver, an exhibition of artist-designed masks shows that face coverings are not only crucial to our health but can also offer unique means of self expression.

In Denver, an exhibition of artist-designed masks shows that face coverings are not only crucial to our health but can also offer unique means of self-expression.

10/21/2020

10/21 - The Hustle Habit w/ Courtney Childress at PARADICE PALASE

'The Hustle Habit' is a monthly conversation series with art world movers and makers, hosted virtually with Paradice Palase co-founders Kat & Lauren.

For the October session, they’ll be connecting with Courtney Childress @courtneychildress - an artist, curator, former gallerist, and artist adviser.

RSVP to join us Wednesday 10/21
10/21, 6:30 EST

https://withfriends.co/event/5119529/the_hustle_habit_w_courtney_childress

Get tickets and support PARADICE PALASE by becoming a member

10/21/2020

Iconic: The Photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris – Carnegie Museum of Art

For more than four decades, Charles “Teenie” Harris photographed the city’s African American community for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s most influential black newspapers.

https://cmoa.org/exhibition/iconic-teenie-harris/

This exhibition of photographs by Charles “Teenie” Harris celebrates some of the Hill District native's most iconic images of Pittsburgh. Photographs from past exhibitions spanning a number of themes, topics, and histories—including Hair (2013), Civil Rights (2015) an...

10/14/2020

The 2020 Voices International Theatre Festival will run from October 16 to October 25. The festival’s opening ceremony is on Sunday, October 18 in Liberty State Park, Jersey City. The in-person event will be socially distanced with both live and virtual events.

@jctcenter

Get your tickets!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2020-voices-festival-pass-tickets-121644737685

10/14/2020

Sculptor Simone Leigh Picked to Represent United States at 2022 Venice Biennale

Simone Leigh, a sculptor known for her work centering Black women and their histories, will represent the United States and the forthcoming Venice Biennale. After her U.S. Pavilion goes on view in 2022, works from it will head to the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, the pavilion's commissioning institution, in 2023.

The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston will act as the commissioning institution.

10/10/2020

Marking Absences – Shifting Narratives: Conversation #4: A Matter of Public Inspiration — 1014 | Space for Ideas | New York City

Marking Absences – Shifting Narratives: Conversation #4: A Matter of Public Inspiration | Tuesday, October 20, 2020 | 2:00 PM 3:00 PM

https://www.1014.nyc/events/marking-absences-shifting-narratives-conversation-4-a-matter-of-public-inspiration

A Matter of Public Inspiration invites a cross-section of those leading the charge to bring social justice to their communities to reflect on the landscape of their cities. At their best, monuments and public art installations can become part of a community’s psyche, acting as extensions of oursel...

10/10/2020

Water of Life — Arcade Project

“I felt thirsty for art, whatever it may be and whatever it wanted to say. Catenations quenches this thirst with a variety of artworks that explore the theme of water on multiple levels, both global and local. I was drawn to works that touched on this theme in a way that became personal, either by being intimate and tactile, or because of a heightened psychological and emotional charge."

I felt thirsty for art, whatever it may be and whatever it wanted to say. Catenations quenches this thirst with a variety of artworks that explore the theme of water on multiple levels, both global and local. I was drawn to works that touched on this theme in a way that became personal, either by be

10/08/2020

Guggenheim’s Top Curator Is Out as Inquiry Into Basquiat Show Ends

“An independent investigation found no mistreatment of a Black curator, Chaédria LaBouvier, but the chief curator, Nancy Spector, who is white, is leaving after 34 years.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/arts/design/guggenheim-investigation-nancy-spector.html

An independent investigation found no mistreatment of a Black curator, Chaédria LaBouvier, but the chief curator, Nancy Spector, who is white, is leaving after 34 years.

10/08/2020

Bushwick ‘Wall of Lies’ Vandalized With ‘Vote Trump or Die,’ Proud...

“A Bushwick mural displaying more than 20,000 ‘false or misleading’ claims made by President Donald Trump was vandalized overnight Wednesday with the statements ‘Vote Trump or Die’ and ‘Stand Back and Stand By.’

https://www.bkreader.com/2020/10/08/bushwick-wall-of-lies-vandalized-with-vote-trump-or-die-proud-boys-call/?fbclid=IwAR16FaTNWe774tHxoLj58Ont7xXh5JvFVwEfcXhOo_TTV0a_WddFJkUMHDQ

The mural of more than 20K 'false or misleading' claims made by Trump was vandalized with 'Vote Trump or Die' and 'Stand Back and Stand By.'