Black Rock Senegal Announces Artist Residency Application Cycle
Black Rock Senegal announces applications are open for the 2022 cycle of multidisciplinary artist-in-residency program located in Dakar, Senegal. After two successful years welcoming over thirty artists from around the world to Kehinde Wiley's coastal compound, we Black Rock Senegal is thrilled to once again open doors to a new cohort of artists for the 2022 artist-in-residency cycle.
Jeffrey Gibson, "To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth"
Art OMI, The Benenson Center, Ghent, NY
September 11, 2021 – January 2, 2022
Jeffrey Gibson, a Choctaw-Cherokee artist, is best known for his abstract painting, sculpture and prints which carry an autobiographical cultural inflection. Gibson’s influences range from 19th-century beadwork and Native American iconography, to contemporary street art. This exhibition, To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth takes its title from “Late Fragment”, the final poem in the poet and short story writer Raymond Carver’s last published work, “A New Path to the Waterfall.”
Kehinde Wiley Painting Commission Inspired by "The Blue Boy"
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Roberts Projects is thrilled to announce The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has commissioned Kehinde Wiley to create a new work inspired by Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (ca. 1770). Wiley’s A Portrait of a Young Gentleman (also the original title of the Gainsborough painting) will be a large-scale portrait in the Grand Manner style that will be added to The Huntington’s permanent collection. The new painting will be on view from Oct. 2, 2021, through Jan. 3, 2022, in The Huntington’s Thornton Portrait Gallery, opposite the institution’s iconic and recently restored Blue Boy. The acquisition of the Wiley portrait celebrates the 100th anniversary of the purchase of the Gainsborough painting by Henry and Arabella Huntington, the founders of the institution.
Jeffrey Gibson to be honored at Socrates Sculpture Park 35th Annual Benefit
Jeffrey Gibson will be honored at the Socrates 35th Anniversary Benefit on September 23, 2021. Gibson is an interdisciplinary Choctaw-Cherokee artist and recipient of a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” grant; his enormous technicolor ziggurat Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House was on view as part of the Socrates Sculpture Park’s MONUMENTS NOW exhibition in 2020. The honorees embody the Park’s commitment to artists and the power of their art to shape our culture and lives.
