Jurying The 22nd National Print Exhibition
October 15—November 12, 2022
Will take place at Mixografia
1419 E Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90011
Honorees include Betye and Alison Saar and the theme will be Excellence.
The Phoenix Project at the Korean Cultural Center
Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles
The Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles (KCCLA), in partnership with Black Artists in Los Angeles (BAILA), and the Korean Artists Association of Southern California (KAASC),
April 22 - May 20, 2022
Moses X. Ball / April Banks / Chelle Barbour / Sharon Barnes / Lili Bernard / Mark Broyard / Steven J. Brooks / Yrneh Gabon / Lavialle Campbell / Jane Chang / Jason Sahan Chang / Hyunsook Cho / Min Cho / Yun J. Choi / Kenturah Davis / Adrienne DeVine / Ingrid Elburg / Isaiah Ferguson / Mark Steven Greenfield / Okka Han / Zeal Harris / Han Na Hong (H.RED) / Marlon Ivory / David B. Jang / Miyoung Jeon / Eunsil Jeoung / In-ok Jeong / Buena Johnson / Sunhee Joo / Jessi Jumanji / Jongmoo Jun / Jinsil Kim / Somoon Kim / Sungil Kim /Yoonchung Park Kim / Yong Sik Kim / Chungmee Lee / Nakyung Lee / Robert Lee / Sam Sanghoon Lee / Talita Long / Michael Massenburg / Rosalind McGary / Rosalyn Myles / Dominique Moody / Kyoung Namkung / Ji Oh / Michelle Oh / Hairan Paik / Heysook Park / Swan Park / Duane Paul / Amber Perry / Alison Saar / Toni Scott / Esther Shim / Lisa Diane Wedgeworth / Wendell Wiggins / Stanley C. Wilson / Vincent Minsook Yang
This is an exhibition commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the uprising in Los Angeles in 1992. The exhibition will be in the spirit of the Collaborations exhibition organized by Roland Charles, founding director of the Black Gallery in 1996, and will feature the work of fifteen African American artist, as well as fifteen Korean American artists.
The Institute of Black Imagination podcast
a deep dive into my work on the Institute of Black Imagination podcast — april 10th!
what an honor to talk to dario about diminishing value of mfa’s, urban planning and design to Tony Morrison’s essay “The Site of Memory”.
available on your favorite podcast service and check out amazing other interviews at Black Imagination
Prada x Theaster Gates Experimental Design Lab
ARTIST THEASTER GATES AND PRADA GROUP ANNOUNCE INAUGURAL COHORT OF DORCHESTER INDUSTRIES EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN LAB AWARDEES
Theaster Gates and Prada Group announce inaugural cohort of the Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab. The Design Lab, a partnership between Theaster Gates Studio, Dorchester Industries, Rebuild Foundation and Prada Group, is a three-year program curated to support and amplify the work of designers of color working across the creative industries. Fourteen designers and artists from around the world have been selected by a committee of design industry leaders to form the program’s first-ever cohort.:
Tolu Coker (fashion design), Germane Barnes (architecture), Norman Teague (product design), Kyle Abraham (dance), Mariam Issoufou Kamara (architecture), Kendall Reynolds (footwear), Yemi Amu (agriculture), Kenturah Davis (visual art), Salome Asega (art, technology, and design), Damarr Brown (culinary arts), Maya Bird-Murphy (architecture), Brandon Breaux (fine art and design), Summer Coleman (graphic design), and Catherine Sarr (fine jewelry design).
Nominated by luminaries across the creative industries including Prada S.p.A. Co-CEO and Prada Co-Creative Director Miuccia Prada, writer and director Ava DuVernay, the late designer Virgil Abloh, architect Sir David Adjaye, and other dignitaries, the awardees were selected through an extensive review process, having demonstrated extraordinary creative potential in their respective practices.
Printmaking: Intentions and Aspirations
Printmaking: Intentions and Aspirations
The idea for this Critics Page has been to have a younger group of printmakers to consider the importance of printmaking in today’s artistic world. Artists and curators of generations younger than my own have been consulted to offer inspired suggestions of who might address the following prompt:
There is a distinctive nature to making prints; and working in these processes contributes to artists’ work in other media.
- Ruth Fine, Guest Critic
Ruth Fine, the former and distinguished curator of modern art and special projects at The National Gallery of Art, called upon several artists/writers to share their thoughts about the influence of printmaking for the February issue of Brooklyn Rail. I briefly muse over proto-printmaking forms in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. It was fun connecting the dots between my obsessions with the rosetta stone, Jason Moran’s works on paper and the lessons of teaching printmaking virtually at Occidental College.
The Artist as Poet: Selections from PAMM's Collection
The Artist as Poet: Selections from PAMM's Collection
Curated by André Breton
With a nod to Surrealism and its use of everyday materials, subversion of common objects, and incorporation of poetic language, this exhibition celebrates how the characteristics of the poème-objet (poem-object) are present in contemporary art. André Breton, the principle theorist of literary Surrealism, often discussed the ways in which text and object could work together, each having their own function within a work. The works in The Artist as Poet span 10 decades between 1917 and 2020 and represent how language—specifically poetry—is used in contemporary art, while shedding light on Surrealism’s influence. The exhibition includes works by Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Joseph Cornell, Aimée García Marrero, Glenda León, Maria Martinez-Cañas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Shirin Neshat, Michael Richards, Purvis Young, and Tim Rollins + K.O.S. (Kids of Survival).
Something Curated
Interview: Artist Kenturah Davis On Liminal Space, Language & Her Time At Palm Heights
Following the bustle of this year’s Art Basel Miami, Davis finds herself resident at the sumptuous Grand Cayman estate and cultural centre, Palm Heights, where she sat down with some of the curators for an interview.
Kenturah Davis. Stacked books at Palm Heights’ library, 2021. Courtesy the artist.
Alice Smith, left, and Kenturah Davis in Joshua Tree.
Los Angeles Times - IMAGE MAGAZINE
LA Times Issue 8: Deserted
Kenturah interviews Grammy nominated singer Alice Smith in Joshua Tree for the cover story of Image Magazine’s December 2021 issue. This story is part of Image issue 8, “Deserted,” a supercharged experience of becoming and spiritual renewal. Enjoy the trip! (Wink, wink.) See the full package here.
Photography by Samanta Helou Hernandez
Editor in Chief: Ian Blair
Shattered Glass
Contending with Contingency VI, 2021
November 29–December 5, 2021
Moore Building, Miami
Curated by Melahn Frierson and A.J. Girard
Artists
Diana Yesenia Alvarado, Mario Ayala, Tyler D. Ballon, Tyler Cala, Calvin Clausell Jr., Ariel Dannielle, Kenturah Davis, Bernadette Despujols, Johnson Eziefula, Fabian Guerrero, Uber Lopez Enamorado, rafa esparza, Delfin Finley, Kohshin Finleym Bryant Giles, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Jewel Ham, Kezia Harrell, Jammie Holmes, Khari Johnson-Ricks, Clifford Prince King, Yashua Klos, YoYo Lander, Amani Lewis, Gerald Lovell, Shaina McCoy, Murjoni Merriweather, Jaime Munoz, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, No Sesso, The Perez Bros, Bony Ramirez, Adrienne Raquel, Davin Raynolds, Jacob Rochester, Gabriela Ruiz, Gabriel Sanchez, Gabriella Sanchez, Manuela Sota Sosa, Alake Shilling, Thelonious, Michael Vasquez, Raelis Vasquez, Fulton Leroy Washington (Mr. Wash), Rikki Wright
Shattered Glass, the acclaimed exhibition of new art by emerging artists of color that was shown at Jeffrey Deitch Los Angeles last spring, will be presented in an expanded version in the Moore Building in the Miami Design District.
The painting, sculpture and photographic works in the exhibition are all figurative. The subject matter is often the artists’ family and friends. Their primary subject is their own life and their community. Many of the works also display extraordinary technical skill and mastery of traditional painting techniques. A number of the artists also apply industrial techniques such as air brush and use unexpected materials like adobe, glitter and synthetic hair.
The participating artists are strongly socially engaged. Several of the artists donate part of their sale proceeds to the people portrayed in their works. Many of the works have a powerful social message. There is also an emphasis on the strength of family and community ties. In a story on the exhibition in The New York Times, Robin Pogrebin wrote: “There is a joyfulness in the work, one that attests to the resilience of the artists and the people they depict.”
Mondays at Beinecke
Mondays at Beinecke:”Conditions of Contingency - a Convening” with Kenturah Davis
November 22, 2021
Kenturah will discuss her artist book, “Conditions of Contingency - a Convening” (2021) with the Yale Beinecke Library curators.
The artist states: “This new object is an effort to consider how language produces conditions of contingency that we move through, blurring the personal and the political. The book consists of the transcript of the 1865 Senate debates leading to the passing of the 13th Amendment. Unlike the actual amendment, which is just a few short lines, the debates overflow with numerous presuppositions that are antithetical to a concept of equality and liberation. The resulting law is burdened with this language in ways that drift in and out of view. The body of text is impressed into the paper, producing a low relief. The legibility of the text is contingent on its shadows. A compartment within the cavity of the book holds a piece of cast charcoal. The viewer is invited to rub their hands across the charcoal and apply it to the text. The more opaque the application of charcoal, the more the text is illuminated and rendered more legibly.”
Book Description:
Unbound, debossed and die-cut paper. Cast charcoal. Custom clam shell box. Edition of 25 + 5 Artist Proofs. Yale Library’s Haas Arts Library Collections holds copy no. 6/25. This is a signed and numbered artist book edition, hand-printed by Kenturah Davis on a Vandercook letterpress, each with a unique charcoal rubbing by the artist.