Curated by Kimberli Gant and Lisa Binder Co-Presented by MoCADA and the Museum for African Art, New York On View: June 4 – September 13, 2009 The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and the Museum for African Art are proud to present Perspectives: … Read More →
Category Archives: Anchor Space
Johannesburg to New York
Curated by Kimberli E. Gant January 29 – May 17, 2009 Johannesburg to New York is the first retrospective of the collaborative work between South African artist Samson Mnisi and New York artist Cannon Hersey. Combining their various perspectives on the changing cultural dynamics of South … Read More →
I am a Man
Curated by Kevin Powell September 25, 2008 – January 18, 2009 February 1968 saw 1,300 African American Sanitation workers strike to demand their right to unionize. The Civil Rights Leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., eventually came to Memphis to support the strikers and was … Read More →
Dread Scott: Welcome to America
February 28, 2008 – June 1, 2008 Opening Reception: February 28th, 6-9pm Artist Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. His art begins in a radical and realistic view of American society and international civil rights crisis – seeing it as a world where … Read More →
The French Evolution Race, Politics and the 2005 Riots
Curated by Kimberli Gant [May 25th – September 9, 2007] The French Evolution is a solo exhibition by emerging artist Alexis Peskine in which Peskine reflects on the diverse identities that make up France, yet neglected in public perceptions of French culture. Emerging artist Alexis … Read More →
Arturo Lindsay: Love
Curated by Blake T. Kimbrough [September 27, 2007-January 13, 2008] Arturo Lindsay: Love is a solo exhibition in which Lindsay explores both personal and collective emotional experiences. Love proposes to examine the power of art to enhance the experience of love. His work examines the … Read More →
The Postmillennial Black Madonna
The Postmillennial Black Madonna: An Exhibition in Two Parts: Paradise and Inferno curated by Danny Simmons and Briant Tate February 22-May 13,2007 If it is the artist’s role to trouble the comfortable and to comfort the troubled, then the Black Madonna may be considered the artist’s … Read More →
They Won’t Budge: Africans in Europe
Curated by Awam Amkpa, Annalisa Butticci and Madala Hilaire, NYU Africana Studies Department, Creative Consultant, Deb Willis. October 1, 2009 – January 19, 2010 Their stories are numerous, some similar and others flavored by particular struggles in specific sites of discontent. Overall, their attitudes are of stubborn … Read More →