Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 5:00AM February James
"I’m attracted to the lost people of life. I come to them rather intuitively and they wash past me in much the same way. Each of us feeding one another's need. People collecting people."
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 5:00AM Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle will debut her Kentrifican Museum project next month at our downtown space P.I.A. Projects. Our original home (Papillion Institute of Art) is being relaunched and reopened to the public next month as a project space. P.I.A. Projects will invite an artist to come and activate the 1200sq ft store front space with a new or continued idea that can be developed, executed and/or completed with in a year.
Hinkle's expansive and long term Kentrifica Project and the diaspoiric Kentrifican Museum of Culture will take up residence. The Kentrifica Project is based upon the continent of her ancestral origins that has a melange of cultures and influences, including a close connection to her familial lineage in Kentucky and parts of West Africa. The project is a meditation on what can and cannot be mapped when dealing with constructions of cultural identity and belonging. It is a project that blurs ficition and reality in which the artist presents lectures, curates exhibitions, and performs. She will use the storefront as an open workspace in which visitors can see behind the scenes re-creation of Kentrifican artifacts and research. Visitors can also collaborate and add to the ever evolving archive of Kentrifican knowledge via participation in events and workshops that will be held periodically in the space.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 5:00AM Kenturah Davis along with 13 other amazing artists have all been selected to create new public art works for the new LAX/Crenshaw metro line!!!
Other artists include Mickalene Thomas (who will be doing the metro stop that is across the street from the gallery Crenshaw/Vernon) Shinique Smith & Geoff McFetridge.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 5:00AM Sadie Barnette is from Oakland, California. She received her BFA from CalArts in 2006, and her Masters in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, in 2012. Sadie is currently living in New York City while participating in the 2014-15 Artist-in-Residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
"Untitled" spray paint and ink on paper, 2015
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 5:00AM #WCW Kimberly Drew, founder of BlackContemporaryArt.tumblr.com
Monday, April 13, 2015 at 5:00AM Andy Robert works across boundaries, varied source material and found objects to address fragments as states of being. Robert is interested in what happens to things when they come into proximity and/or collide. He sees art as a viable tool, a mode and form of criticism and critical reflection. He is currently in the Whiteny ISP program in New York City.
Canal de la Mona installation in American Survey Pt: I
Monday, April 6, 2015 at 5:00AM Pick up the April issue of Art In America magazine to read Samuel Levi Jones 4-pg feature!
