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The Queen of Spades…and other stories

January 9, 2022 in , /by

Bienvenu Steinberg & Partner THE QUEEN OF SPADES… AND OTHER STORIES January 13 – February 26, 2022 The Queen of Spades First published in 1833, Alexander Pushkin’s enigmatic The Queen of Spades is one of the major classics of Russian literature. It has been the inspiration of operas, films and exhaustive critical study. Less known, and sometimes intentionally obscured, is the history of Pushkin’s African ancestry. Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Pushkin’s maternal great grandfather, rose out of slavery to become a general in Tsar Peter the Great’s armies. Commissioned by Eminence Grise Editions, three outstanding artists, Derrick Adams, Outtara Watts and Fred Wilson have entered personal responses into the dialogue generated by their fascination with Pushkin and the story. Derrick Adams’ works pay tribute to the two female characters, Countess N and her lady in waiting. In Fred Wilson’s suite of three images the black spade emerges to overwhelm and obscure depictions of a courtly lady and gentleman. Echoing Fyodor Dostoevsky’s statement that Pushkin’s tale represents “the pinnacle of the art of the fantastic,” Ouattara Watts has created two hallucinatory visions. And other stories Also included in the exhibition are recent Eminence Grise editions that hint at narratives that are never […]

Her Power

August 29, 2021 in , /by

An international exhibition curated by Zhen Guo and Wenling Zhao through The Art of Nature Gallery in Hong Kong.  Scene 9+9 part 2 features the work of Peggy Ahwesh, Hong Bian, Daniella Dooling, Jingyi Wang, Susan Wides, Yulin Huang. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/k-X6JAYpfyYb1FQTFpKibA

Social Photography IX at Carriage Trade

July 25, 2021 in , , /by

Now in its ninth year, Social Photography brings together cell phone pictures of participants from a wide range of disciplines, generations, and places. In the spirit of broad access to cell phone image making technology, the emphasis of the project leans toward sensibility and the anecdotal over skill and mastery of the medium of photography. Taking advantage of technologies that allow for images to be sent from anywhere, which are then formatted, printed, and displayed in an in-person exhibition at carriage trade, the range of participants in Social Photography reflect both the gallery’s community in Lower Manhattan as well those associated with it in other parts of the world. Linking the virtual with the physical through an online display that is then presented in print form, Social Photography IX might be seen as a counterpoint to the increased placelessness of remote exchanges normalized in the pandemic-era. Spanning nearly a decade, the growing, informal archive of Social Photography cell phone pictures occasionally reflect significant local, national, and international events (Occupy Wall Street, George Floyd protests, U.S. presidential elections, pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong) existing side by side with the everyday, the personal, the urban, and the domestic. With a limited curatorial […]

Material Matters

March 2, 2020 in , /by

at Seager/Gallery in Mill Valley, California on view March 3-31, 2020.  Artists include Robert Adams, Dean Allison, Gale Antokal, Adrian Arleo, Kay Bradner, Joe Brubaker, Lia Cook, Stephen Paul Day, Daniella Dooling, Jane Hambleton, Michael Janis, Lisa Kokin, Dana Lynn Louis, Jann Nunn, Emily Payne, Sibylle Peretti, Ross Richmond, Jane Rosen, Liz Steketee, Susan Stover, Tim Tate, Jessica Williams and Aggie Zed.    

Maintaining Sanity

February 9, 2020 in /by

at Kerry Schuss Gallery, 73 Leonard Street, New York, NY with Robert Barber, Daniella Dooling, Ryan Foerster, Monica Forrestall, Joanne Greenbaum, Rudy Heintze, Ken Johnson, Vince Leo, Les LeVeque, Alice Mackler, Anna Rosen, Hal Saulson, and Jocko Weyland