Juxtapoz takes us overseas to look at Tunjia’s newest at White Cube’s Seoul outpost, in which the NYC-based Brit “explores the diasporic body, African subjecthood and autonomy.” The figuration in the work peeks through, similar to earlier work by fellow Brit Cecily.
#tunjiadeniyijones
like Jacob is in Future Proof. He also shows with Wellancora who notes that “Hazlewood uses the structural language of abstraction as a clarifying act of progress in what he considers an unstable world.”
#carlehazelwood
A visual artist and writer, A’Driane Nieves is a U.S. Air Force veteran and a self-taught painter. At the urging of her therapist, she began painting as a form of art therapy in 2011 during her recovery from postpartum depression and following her later diagnosis of bipolar disorder. This initial experimentation led to her using Abstract Expressionist painting styles as a way to overcome the impacts of childhood abuse, specifically emotional suppression. Influenced by Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Bernice Bing, and early Black abstract painters ranging from Alma Thomas to Mary Lovelace O’Neal.
#adrianenieves
Because of my interest in Albers, a friend who recently saw a few of Steve’s pieces from Homage to the Auction Block (2019-ongoing) series shared them with me. The work posits that the basic Modernist form is indeed the slave auction block. With the discovery of that form, all the other forms became possible.
#stevelocke
Maren Hassinger (born Maren Louise Jenkins in 1947) is an African-American artist and educator whose career spans four decades. Hassinger uses sculpture, film, dance, performance art, and public art to explore the relationship between the natural world and industrial materials.
#marenhassinger
For Burnaway’s series CRUSH, Michelle Santiago Cortés details the dance-drawings and improvisational mark-making of Awilda Sterling-Duprey. Throughout her decades-long career, Sterling-Duprey has paid close attention to how movement appears in painting and how dance lends itself to its own kind of painterly gesture. She has distilled elements of both disciplines to their constituent parts, which can be broken down into kinds of information: visual, spatial, tactile, sonic, and so on.
#awildasterlingduprey
has new installation work, paintings and drawings framing explorations of space, geography, mapping, and land/waterscapes, especially of the African diaspora in New Suns at Lawndale in Houston.
#ayannajolivetmccloud
Saw below during a recent trip to the High Museum in Atlanta. Gabriel is interested in abstraction as a mode of painting that offers an open-ended forum for posing questions about the nature of his everyday experience as a Black artist. For Mills, abstraction represents a rebellious way of approaching marginalized and countercultural political ideologies through unencumbered expressivity.
#gabrielmills
With 40 years of exhibition history, Anthony (Tony) Daley is a highly decorated abstract artist holding works in Tate Collections, Saatchi &
National Portrait Gallery.
#tonydaley
like Magdalena has work featured in To Weave the Sky. A queer artist who was born of a Muslim father and raised by his Christian grandmother, Adam’s elaborate textiles address the diverse cultural and spiritual contexts that continue to form his identity. The artist has embraced Islamic spirituality and particularly Sufism, and his works might be read as enlarged prayer rugs.
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#igshaanadams
Hrag at Hyperallergic says Chicago-born and Sag Harbor-based artist Claude has a strong love of jazz and that passion endows his large abstractions with a clear, rhythmic quality, and that his newest at Venus Over Manhattan is one 8 shows to see in NYC this May.
#claudelawrence
Artsy points out that four major art fairs opened last week in New York, raising the curtain on more than 300 presentations taking place across Chelsea and Midtown Manhattan. Kwadwo is one of their none favorite discoveries.
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I saw below during a recent visit to the Greenville County Museum of Art, which hosted an exhibit of his work in 2022. Sills’ first solo exhibition was held at Betty Parsons Gallery in May 1955. He experimented with color and form his entire career, moving from the action painting of Abstract Expressionism to vibrant Color Field painting with energetic palettes and juxtapositions.
#thomassills
Painting After Art is Dead 