Recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award With their architectural aura, their weaving between fluid and solid, supple and clenched, Barbara Chase-Riboud’s sculptural works stage convergences that unsettle while inducing awe. Her intimate juxtaposition of unlike substances triggers creative friction, sparking an alchemy that feels strategic as it fractures narrow categories.
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Torkwase Dyson
NEW YORK Pace For Dyson, the intervention of her touch on industrial materials produces “discursive refusals” that leads to new world building.
Theaster Gates
NEW YORK New Museum Gates’s highly individual clay forms—some spiked and tall, some squat and shiny, bulbous, cylindrical, or drawn upward as narrow tubes—are an assembly of voices, each with its own sensual concentration of material density and un-mattered spirit.
Rashaad Newsome
NEW YORK Park Avenue Armory Questioning Modernism as a Eurocentric appropriation of African culture, Newsome presents an alternative formation in which the expressive dynamic of ballroom vogue and Black femme/trans performance serves as both a model and critique.
“Black Atlantic”
NEW YORK Brooklyn Bridge Park Versed in popular culture and Black history and speaking to the intersecting narratives of migration and the immigrant experience, the works in “Black Atlantic” educate and enrich.
Yinka Shonibare
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park Shonibare’s works are freighted with fierce contradictions, much like the 18th- and 19th-century European eras from which he derives his inspiration.
Arthur Simms
NEW YORK Martos Gallery Simms’s repetitive binding brings to mind the work of Jackie Winsor and Eva Hesse, and he shares with them an embrace of process and industrial materials.
Abdulrazaq Awofeso
BIRMINGHAM, U.K. Ikon Gallery Awofeso takes this blankly ubiquitous material—used for transporting goods around the globe—and imbues it with humanity and character, using a variety of display techniques to evoke the personal and the collective experience of human migration.
Hugh Hayden and Daniel S. Palmer in Conversation on “Black Atlantic”
“Black Atlantic,” presented by Public Art Fund and currently on view at Brooklyn Bridge Park, brings together newly commissioned works by five artists—Leilah Babirye, Hugh Hayden, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis, and Kiyan Williams—sited across the waterfront park’s three piers, with views of New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty beyond.
