Full Blede Issue Five: The Artifact

BY SACHA BAUMANN Glad to have Oedipus featured on the cover of Full Blede Issue Five: The Artifact. It’s great to be included among an amazing group of artists. Thanks Sacha Baumann for bringing us together. In Issue Five: The Artifact, the broadsheet’s collaborators explore that which remains. For some, artifact is a quiet reminder that lingers at present, whether it is outdated or revered; a subtle and sometimes loud ghost of what once was. Artifact also suggests habits, repeated gestures, and behavior. Issue five launched at Chimento Contemporary, in conjunction with the opening reception of Forrest Kirk: Body Count on June 22, …

Painting The Figure Now

BY WALT MORTON AND DIDI MENDENDEZ July 7 – September 18, 2018 RECEPTION: Friday, July 13, 5pm – 7pm Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art 309 McClellan St Wausau, WI 54403 Painting the Figure Now seeks to show quality paintings that investigate the many ways we see the human figure now. Contemporary approaches to portraiture, narrative, and any and all visualizations focusing on the human form in life, action, play, work, and repose. The museum is seeking artists who understand the finest traditions of figurative art. “We believe the human form is an endlessly interesting subject with inexhaustible potential,” says the museum. …

Counterpoint Project

BY ENDALYN TAYLOR AND PATRICK EARL HAMMIE PERFORMANCE: Thursday, May 31, 7pm – 8pm POST-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION: Thursday, May 31, 8pm – 9pm SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (135th St and Malcolm X Blvd). New York, NY, 10037 Dancer, curator, and choreographer Endalyn Taylor and visual artist Patrick Earl Hammie are collaborating with five cross-generational ballerinas toward a multimedia event entitled the Counterpoint Project, which will feature live performances and a symposium that seek to reframe the discussion regarding black ballerinas confronting racial disparities and institutional discrimination, and create a platform that educates communities about the historical and present …

Oedipus Joins David C. Driskell Center Art Collection

This spring Oedipus joins the David C. Driskell Center’s Art Collection. The collection includes drawings, paintings, prints, mixed media, and sculptures, with works by artists such as Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Keith Morrison, Faith Ringgold, Augusta Savage, William T. Williams, and Charles White. Many thanks to Executive Director Prof. Curlee Raven Holton and Deputy Director Dorit Yaron! It’s a great pleasure to join the collection.

Portraits of Who We Are

BY CURLEE R. HOLTON February 1, 2018 – May 18, 2018 RECEPTION: Thursday, February 1, 5pm – 7pm DAVID C. DRISKELL CENTER 1214 Cole Student Activities Building College Park, MD 20742 The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland is proud to announce its spring exhibition, Portraits of Who We Are, a group exhibition that focuses on self-portraits by African American artists and portraits of African American artists created by their colleagues. The exhibition includes more than 50 works that span from 1915 to 2017 …

Birth Throes

SOLO EXHIBITION October 6, 2017 – September 22, 2018 RECEPTION: Friday, October 6, 5pm – 8pm CONVERSATION: Sunday, October 8, 12:30 pm. KRUGER GALLERY 212 E San Antonio St. Marfa, TX 79843 Kruger Gallery and I are very pleased to announce and invite you to Birth Throes, my second solo exhibition with the gallery, debuting in Marfa during Chinati Weekend. Birth Throes is a new collection of portraits and allegories that meditate on the relationship between me and my mother, mortality, and the capacity for black experience to disrupt, diversify, and enrich American culture. Informed by personal experience, shifting American demographics that forecast a black and brown …

Aureole

SOLO EXHIBITION September 29 – November 19, 2017 ARTIST TALK: Friday, September 29, 6 pm RECEPTION: Friday, September 29, 7 pm– 8pm WRISTON ART CENTER Lawrence University 613 E College Ave. Appleton, WI 54911

Puffin Foundation Grant

Renowned dancer, curator, and choreographer Endalyn Taylor and I are collaborating with five cross-generational ballerinas towards a multi media performance, exhibition, and symposium titled Counterpoint Project. This project will explore, discuss, and reframe the ongoing cultural and critical contributions of black ballerinas in dance and visual culture. I’m honored to announce that I have been awarded a Puffin Foundation grant to complete new work toward this goal! The Puffin Foundation (Teaneck, NJ) “has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, …

SUPER Natural

BY KARIM HAMID April 28, 2017 – May 26, 2017 OPENING PREVIEW: Friday, April 28, 7 – 10pm AUREUS CONTEMPORARY 116 E. 7th Street New York, NY 10009 For centuries figurative representations in art remained linear and academic. At the start of the 20th century fresh threads and experimental approaches evolved the making and thinking around the imaging of human form. Today, there are myriad methods and aesthetics associated with the concept of figurative art, reflecting the increasing diversity of artists working throughout our world. Some strategies are easy to recognize and stem from formal representation like photorealism, while others disassemble formal conventions, …

Impolite-ic Politics

BY MATTHEW IVAN CHERRY February 2, 2017 – March 5, 2017 Panel and reception (RESCHEDULED): Thursday, February 16, 5 – 8pm Matthew Ivan Cherry – Cesar Conde – Patrick Earl Hammie LUNDER ARTS CENTER 1801 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02239 IMPOLITE-IC POLITICS – is an exhibition of large-scale portrait paintings by Matthew Ivan Cherry, Cesar Conde, and Patrick Earl Hammie that considers the state of black and brown male and LGBTQ lives in America to explore gendered and racialized biases and stereotypes, religion, and rights. Through allegory, personal narrative, and portraiture the show proposes how minority experiences can examine, disrupt, and enrich our inherited narratives toward constructive action, discourse, and …