Category: Exhibition Review
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En Plein Air: Reflections of a ‘Black Flaneuse’ in New York
As I look back to document a few more reflections on my mid-February trip to New York, the memories that immediately return (writing three months on) create a remembrance that seems much more vivid than is typical when recounting past life experiences over that space of time. Moreover, the thoughts that have come back to…
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Issues of Diversity within Lines of Beauty
The exhibition Lines of Beauty: Master Drawings from Chatsworth opened at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery on 14th February 2020, featuring a selection of more than 50 artworks from Chatsworth House’s Devonshire collection. Divided into six sections, the entrance area presented an art-historical timeline and overview of the aesthetic preferences of successive owners of the Devonshire collection…
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Trokon Nagbe: The World Gives Life – A Solo Exhibition at Skoto Gallery, New York
I was delighted to visit Skoto Gallery during my recent trip to New York City and experience a very warm welcome from the co-owners – Skoto Aghahowa and Alix du Serech – who both took time to introduce me to their arts space, share information about the history of their past exhibitions and provide additional…
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Lina Iris Viktor: Some Are Born to Endless Night – Dark Matter
British-Liberian conceptual artist Lina Iris Viktor’s exhibition – ‘Some Are Born to Endless Night – Dark Matter’ (Autograph, Rivington Place, London, 13 September 2019 – 25 January 2020) – featured more than 60 works on paper and canvas (including several new commissions) from a recent portfolio of photographic self-portraiture and performance-based installations that she has…
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Frank Bowling: The Possibilities of Paint are Never-Ending
How fitting that Tate Britain’s first solo retrospective about the 60-year career of Guyanese-British painter Frank Bowling, OBE, RA (b. Bartica, 1934) should be titled and themed around his own words: “The possibilities of paint are never-ending”– Frank Bowling, 2017 This long-awaited exhibition was presented over nine rooms at the Millbank site in London, 31…
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