Fair

December 5 – December 9, 2007

Photo Miami
The international contemporary art fair for photo-based art, video, and new media, with Charles Guice Contemporary

Wynwood Art District
NW 31st Street and North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127

http://www.charlesguice.com
http://www.artfairsinc.com

Exhibition:
January 22 – March 2, 2008

Working History

The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
Reed College
3203 Se Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97202-8199

This original exhibition brings together works of art by significant, contemporary African American artists, created in diverse media—fabric, photography, video, printmaking, mixed media, sound, and painting—and exhibits them in relationship to related historical artifacts and ephemera. Working History conjoins artifact and artwork in the same semantic space, reflecting upon the singular and critical manner in which African American artists, in particular, have re-purposed historical documents, material craft histories and folk art forms as indispensible vehicles for social and political critique, and often personal and familial revelation. By extention, the exhibition also offers a space for considering issues of artistic authorship and various exchange economies.

Artists include: David Hammons, Willie Cole, Glenn Ligon, Fred Wilson, Io Palmer, Kianga Ford, Dave McKenzie, Sam Durant, Lorraine O'Grady, and Faith Ringgold. Objects include: Material from the Reed College Special Collections Archives; the Oregon Historical Society; and private collections.

http://www.reed.edu/gallery/

Exhibition:
Mapping
Opens March 15th

The Contemporary
100 West Centre Street, between Cathedral and Howard Street Baltimore, Maryland

http://www.contemporary.org

Continuing…

Blacks In And Out Of The Box

600 State Drive Exposition Park
Los Angeles California 90037

The California African American Museum presents “Blacks In and Out of the Box,” an exhibition celebrating photography and the cutting edge tradition established in California, through the lens of African American artistry. The exhibition highlights various technical and conceptual strategies that Black artists employ to engage in, commemorate, and critique the medium of photography.

The artists featured in this exhibition have all had training or are based in California, including April Banks, Albert Chong, Gerald Cyrus, Kianga Ford, Tony Gleaton, Lyle Ashton Harris, Rodney McMillian, Willie Middlebrook, Hank Willis Thomas, Pat Ward Williams, and Carla Williams among others. The contemporary voices in this exhibition have pushed the boundaries of photographic imagery into a realm that insists on an ongoing dialogue between contemporary and historical photographic themes. These artists have extended the medium from tintypes to 21st century videography, digital collage, and mixed media.

www.caamuseum.org

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