Stephanie Santana at Robert Blackburn (Booth N8): NY Times Armory Show Review

Prints by Stephanie Santana, a founder of Black Women of Print, at Booth N8 include “As Above So Below” (2024), second from left. Credit.: Karsten Moran for The New York Times

The Armory Show

Booth N8 | Javits Center
September 6–8, 2024

NEW Print Edition & Textile Works by Stephanie Santana; including selections from the archives: Betye Saar, Dindga McCannon, Emma Amos and Mavis Pusey

“Art fairs, with their commercial focus, usually make space for nonprofits, and there is a whole section devoted to them here. One of the particularly good ones is the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, one of the longest-running community print shops in the United States. (Founded in 1947 by Blackburn, the son of Jamaican immigrants, the workshop is now run by the Elizabeth Foundation in Chelsea.) The artist Stephanie Santana, a founder of Black Women of Print, has drawn from the Blackburn archives and is showing Betye Saar, Dindga McCannon, Emma Amos and Mavis Pusey alongside her own lithograph, “As Above So Below” (2024), whose upside-down-downside-up figure refers both to Black matriarchal ancestors and the intersections of material and spiritual worlds.”

—Martha Schwendener for The New York Times

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Carlos Motta: Gravidade at Vermelho

Galeria Vermelho
Rua Minas Gerais, 350, 01244-010
São Paulo/SP, Brasil

July 31 – September 28, 2024

On August 1st, Vermelho opens Gravidade, Carlos Motta's second solo exhibition at the gallery.

This series of works includes a large-scale drawing in five parts that serves as the score for a new video performance to be produced in Brazil in June 2024. The video features Alessandro Aguipe, Ana Musidora, Flow Kountouriotis, Karen Marçal, Mariana Taques, Tadzio Veiga, Vitor Martins Dias and Vulcanica Pokaropa. Cinematography is by Flora Dias, with original score and sound design by Luisa Lemgruber.

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Xin Song: New Start, New Hope at Garment District Alliance

New Start, New Hope
Broadway Plaza
Between 37th and 38th St

Opening: July 10, 9 PM

A series of ornate, illuminated lanterns are sparkling above the Garment District as part of the Garment District Alliance’s (GDA) latest public art installation, New Start, New Hope. Created by EFA Studio Artist Xin Song, the installation brings light – both literally and figuratively – to the Broadway plazas in the heart of Midtown Manhattan.

Located on the Broadway plazas in the Garment District between 36 th and 39 th Streets, the free installation will be available to the public through January 2025. In addition to enhancing the overall pedestrian experience, New Start, New Hope invites city-goers to pause and revel in a moment of tranquil reflection amidst the hustle and bustle that surrounds them.

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Chakaia Booker: Vogue Magazine

Chakaia Booker photographed in front of Shaved Portions, her public sculpture now on view in Manhattan’s Garment District.
Photo: Alexandre Ayer. Courtesy of David Nolan Gallery.

Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Artist Chakaia Booker is featured in Vogue US.

Her exhibition WORKS on PAPER is on view through July 11, in conjunction with her public artwork Shaved Portions, located at Broadway and 39th Street.

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EFA Honored by Artists' Fellowship, Inc

On the evening of May 7th, EFA was honored by Artists' Fellowship, Inc at their 165 Annual Award Event, an evening dedicated to honoring distinguished individuals and organizations in the field of art. EFA was represented by Founder and former Executive Director Jane Stephenson to receive the Gari Melchers Memorial Medal. She was introduced by current Executive Director George Scheer. 

Also, awarded that night was Artist KayWalking Stick, who received the Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal, and The Haven Foundation, who received the Presidential Award.

View Images and Videos of the Event Here

Suzan Frecon: Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions at the Menil Collection

Courtesy of artist Suzan Frecon / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Menil Collection
1533 Sul Ross St.
Houston, TX 77006

April 26 – August 25, 2024

John and Dominique de Menil believed that abstract art offered alternative and spiritual ways of approaching reality. “In a world cluttered with images,” Dominique de Menil said, “only abstract art, can bring us to the threshold of the divine.” Abstract Expressionism, a modernist approach to artmaking that rose to prominence in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s, intrigued the de Menils. Their patronage of several of these artists, such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, has famously become a pillar of the museum’s collection today.

Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions highlights work made by succeeding generations of artists who forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art. The exhibition brings together acquisitions made by the Menil over the past fifteen years, including work by Agnes Denes, Suzan Frecon, Sam Gilliam, Ellsworth Kelly, Rick Lowe, and Richard Serra.

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