UP & COMING:
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The Price of Half-Freedom:
Manuel de Gerrit de Reus; Enslaved, Condemned, Pardoned & Freed September 15 - December 22 Opening September 15, 6-8pm Shirley Fiterman Art Center 81 Barclay St., New York, NY 10017 Open Wednesday - Friday, 12-5 PM The Price of Half-Freedom is the story of the first free Black residents in what was to become New York and the events that led to their emancipation: a murder, a trial, and a failed execution. This stories exemplifies the kind of Black solidarity and Black resistance worthy of our memorialization. |
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Can a Sculpture Feel Pain?
RECESS: SESSION Artist Residency Opening November 2022 46 Washington Ave, Brooklyn "Can a Sculpture Feel Pain?" seeks to relocate a recently decommissioned public monument to Recess’s gallery space where portions of the sculpture could be collectively re-imagined into a memorialization of a figure more worthy of contemporary public admiration. |
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"Blauvelt Blues: Afro-Dutch Voices of Rockland County"
Rockland County Art in Public Places contract awarded for permanent outdoor public sculpture installation at Cropsey Community Farm in New City, NY Opening Spring 2023 |
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"PASSAGES", Jamestown Art Center Outdoor Arts Biennial, Jamestown, Rhode Island
July - October 2022 "Six of the First:Yallah, Morandah, Mowoorie, Simboh, Yearie" now on display at East Ferry Gardens, Intersection of Conanicus and Narragansett Avenues, Jamestown, RI 02835 |
Read Louis Bury's review in Hyperallergic
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OWNING EARTH
Curated by Tal Beery, Erin Lee Antonak Owning Earth is an outdoor sculptural exhibition consisting of 20 installations by 18 artists in response to systems of human domination over our environments and the urgent need to enact futures guided by mutuality and reverence. |
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Olana and the Color of Freedom
A discussion with Myra B. Young Armstead, Professor of Historical Studies at Bard College and author of Freedom's Gardener, considering how the timeline of Church’s site-specific masterpiece, Olana, runs concurrent to the experiences of men and women born into slavery in the Hudson Valley. |
Press
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"Always Present, Never Seen" by Editor Chip Rowe.
"a-Historical Landscapes" featured in Highlands Current article on Black history in the Hudson Highlands "Always Present, Never Seen" by Editor Chip Rowe. "The exclusion is reflected in recent artwork by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, who has a studio in Beacon. In a series of prints, a-Historical Landscape, he took idyllic 19th-century landscape engravings typical of the Hudson River School and inserted images from anti-slavery almanacs and abolitionist tracts of the same period. “What makes these works so American, I think, is not what is depicted but also what’s missing,” he says." |
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"7 Emerging Hudson Valley Artists to Watch"
by Carl Van Brunt "Black Artists in the Hudson Valley" A selection by Chronogram staff |
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Scenic Hudson's Hudson Valley Viewfinder
Scenic Hudson recently acquired the site of the former Empire brickyard, located in Stockport, NY and the source for many of my "Empire Brickwork." It is now the Charles Flood Wildlife Management Area at the Empire Brickyard. |
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Interviews
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prints
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