Pulse 2023 @ IA&A At Hillyer

January 05, 2023 in exhibit, Event

IA&A at Hillyer presents Pulse 2023, an exhibition that recognizes the role of Hillyer’s Advisory Committee in identifying artists for solo and group exhibitions at Hillyer’s renowned contemporary art space. The exhibition features work by some of Hillyer’s past notable members such as Helen Frederick, Renée Stout, and Tom Wolff, and current members, Joan Belmar, Nikki Brugnoli, Anna U Davis, Elsabe Dixon, Cianne Fragione, Pat Goslee, Laurel Lukaszewski, Cory Oberndorfer, John Paradiso, and Amber Robles-Gordon.

The David C. Driskell Center is proud to present its fall 2022 exhibition, Telling Our Story: Community Conversations with Our Artists, on view September 9 through December 2, 2022.

October 21, 2022 in Event, exhibit

More than forty works were selected for the exhibition representing the art of thirty-one artists from the David C. Driskell Center’s Permanent Collection. The works are on display along with accompanying letters both handwritten and typed. Emma Amos (1937-2020)

Phoebe Beasley, Robert Blackburn, Lillian Thomas Burwell, Milton Bowens, Elizabeth Catlett, EKO, Ed Clark, Allan Rohan Crite, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kevin Cole, Louis Delsarte, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Herbert Gentry, Robin Holder, Manuel Hughes, Jacob Lawrence, Samella Lewis, Delita Martin, Arcmanoro Niles, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Gordon Parks, Jefferson Pinder, Amber Robles-Gordon, Alison Saar, Augusta Savage, Frank Stewart, Renee Stout, Walter H. Williams, Richard Wyatt,

The Eternal Altar for the woman forsaken and souls relinqished: Yet the Choice Must Always Remain Hers.jpg

Successions: Traversing US Colonialism Amber Robles-Gordon

July 23, 2021 in Event, exhibit

August 28–December 12, 2021

American University Museum Curated by
at the Katzen Arts Center Larry Ossei-Mensah

Amber Robles-Gordon presents Successions: Traversing US Colonial- ism, a solo exhibition on view at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in fall 2021. Successions is a conceptual juxta- position that celebrates abstraction as an art form while leveraging it as a tool to interrogate past and current US policies within its federal district (Washington, DC) and territories (including Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands) that it controls. By highlighting nuances relat- ed to US governance in its federal districts and territories, Robles-Gor- don seeks to question who has access to resources, citizenship, and the right to sovereignty.

y mi bandera vuela mas alto que la tuya., Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 18 x 24 in., 2020 — *y mi bandera vuela mas alto que la tuya*., Mixed Media Collage on Canvas, 18 x 24 in., 2020

Robles-Gordon creates artwork imbued with a layered visual language replete with cultural signifiers and abstract gestures. Successions is a celebration of abstraction as an artistic expression. Robles-Gordon uti- lizes iconic artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Alma Thomas, Romare Bearden, and members of the Washington Color School as vivid refer- ence points for her own dynamic use of color, form, and material within the works she created for the exhibition. These explorations will provide insights into a number of inquiries that undergird the construction of the exhibition. Successions creates a pathway towards discursive crit- icism around issues impacting marginalized communities oppressed by the United States’ hegemonic domestic and foreign policies. The exhibition features a new body of colorful abstract paintings, collages, and quilts created in 2020 and 2021 between San Juan, Puerto Rico (Robles-Gordon’s birthplace) and Washington, DC (where she current- ly lives).

USVI Political, Detail, Front, Mixed Media on Quilt, 86 in. x 90 in., in., 2021

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Robles-Gordon’s creative strategies were directly impacted as a result of sheltering in place in San Juan. The lack of access to materials and arduous circumstances she was confronted with in Puerto Rico and upon returning to Washington, DC catalyzed Robles-Gordon to impro- vise her approach to making works for the exhibition. Moreover, the ex- perience heightened her awareness of how communities on the margin are adversely treated during mo- ments of crisis.

Robles-Gordon’s also uses works featured in Successions to mine the stories, personal narratives, and aesthetics of the women of the Caribbean, particularly of African de- scent, in an effort to investigate the political, socio-economic, and envi- ronmental implications of placemaking, contemporary colonial policy, and notions of citizenship on these social groups. The debate over DC statehood, similar to Puerto Rico, has been a prevalent point of con- tention in the District but rarely featured in the national conversation. Robles-Gordon seeks to use her “backyard” as a metaphor that would

expand our understanding of notions of freedom, liberty, and justice.

A fully illustrated catalog with essays by Ossei-Mensah and Noel Anderson and in-person and virtual programs will accompany the exhibi- tion, enriching the viewer’s experience.

Howard University Presents 2018 James A. Porter Colloquium

March 06, 2018 in exhibit

The James A. Porter Colloquium is the leading forum for scholars, artists, curators, and individuals in the field of African American Art and Visual Culture. Established at Howard University in 1990, the Colloquium is named in honor of James A. Porter, the pioneering Art Historian and Professor, whose 1943 publication, Modern Negro Art, laid the foundation for the field of study. The annual Colloquium continues his legacy through dynamic programming, scholarly research, and artistic leadership.

Visitors take in the art at opening night of The Critiqued.Photo for East City Art by Eric Hope. — Visitors take in the art at opening night of The Critiqued.
Photo for East City Art by Eric Hope.

East City Artnotes: The Critiqued at Otis Street Arts Project

April 06, 2016 in review

By Eric Hope, http://www.eastcityart.com

Coinciding with the organization’s one-year anniversary, Otis Street Arts Project recently unveiled its newest exhibition The Critiqued featuring works by thirteen area artists. Artists on display have all participated in the Project’s Critique program, an ongoing series of critical dialogues open to the public and facilitated by area arts professionals. Several of the finished pieces on display in this current exhibition were shown and discussed in unfinished states during those earlier peer reviews, giving audience members a unique perspective into the artists’ thought processes as they work to determine when a work is indeed finished.

Visions, Voices, Viewpoints and Victories of African American Artists at Peltz Galler

January 01, 2011 in exhibit

Guest curator: Della Wells

Opening Reception: Friday, January 21, 6 to 9:30pm

Artists:

David Anderson

Reginald Baylor

Trenton Baylor

Portia Cobb

Willie Cole

Sam Gilliam

Sharon Kerry Harlan

Sonji Hunt

Mutope Johnson

Ras' Ammar 'Nsoroma

Alison Saar

Evelyn Patricia Terry

Kara Walker

Della Wells

Kehinde Wiley

George Williams, Jr.,

Amber Robles-Gordon.

James Richmond Edwards

Paintings, drawings, collage, wall hangings and original prints by more than 25 artists.

PELTZ GALLERY

1119 E. Knapp St. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

53202 USA

414.223.4278

www.artnet.com/gallery/851/peltz-gallery.html

Saturday, January 22 11am to 4pm - coffee, food and conversation with artists.