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Henry Taylor Opening Reception in LA




BLUM & POE
is pleased to announce   
 
Henry Taylor     
February 23 – March 30, 2013
Opening reception: Saturday, February 23, 6-8 pm 

 

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Blum & Poe is very pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor. This exhibition marks Taylor's second solo exhibition with the gallery and continues his exploration of portrait painting, while delving deeper into the history of oppression, exposing realities of the so-called American dream. His portrait subjects typically consist of friends or historic figures, which are painted with an unmediated sense of spontaneity and happy accidents throughout.

 

In addition to his customary portraits, Taylor introduces anonymous farm workers captured from WPA-era photographs. A more deliberate hand is at work on these portraits, elevating what could be simple documentation to that of a religious or imperial icon. On the gallery floor will be rows of dirt intended to mimic freshly plowed fields and a stately dinner table with a chandelier hanging overhead. The juxtaposition of manual labor versus genteel living creates a charged atmosphere, recalling the history of black American labor, as well as the realities of all forms of blue-collar work.

 

In this exhibition Taylor returns to a mainstay of his practice, using readily available materials to create social commentary. He routinely scours the neighborhood surrounding his Chinatown studio for discarded items, repurposing them into installations imbued with memories of oppression and the abuses of authority. The overall impact effectively demonstrates the subjective nature of equality within the United States.

 

Henry Taylor (born in Oxnard, California, 1958) received his bachelor of arts from California Institute of the Arts and has had solo exhibitions at MOMA PS1, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Blues for Smoke, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Made in LA, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.
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Performa Institute: Get Ready for the Marvelous – Schedule

PERFORMA INSTITUTE PRESENTS

GET READY FOR THE MARVELOUS: BLACK SURREALISM IN DAKAR, FORT-DE-FRANCE, HAVANA, JOHANNESBURG,
NEW YORK CITY, PARIS, PORT-AU-PRINCE, 1932-2013

Conference
Friday, February 8th, 1:00-5:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 9th, 1:00-5:30 p.m.

Special Morning Film Program
Saturday, February 9th, 10:00 a.m. – Noon

NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Einstein Auditorium, Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street [map]

Free adminission with reservations, email RSVP@performa-arts.org
Indicate the dates you will attend with your reservation. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, February 8th

 

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. 

Welcome  

RoseLee Goldberg
Founding Director and Curator
Performa

Blues People and the Poetic Spirit:
Recovering Surrealism's Revolutionary Politics

Keynote Address

Robin D.G. Kelley
Gary B. Nash Professor of American History
University of California Los Angeles 

2:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Performance Honoring Adrienne Kennedy

Adam Pendleton
Artist

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.

Break

3:00 – 4:30 p.m

Black Surrealist Beginnings: Dance, Theater, and Visual Art

Awam Ampka
Associate Professor of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts andDirector of Africana Studies
New York University

Barbara Browning
Associate Professor, Performance Studies
New York University

Lowery Stokes Sims
Curator
Museum of Art and Design

RoseLee Goldberg
Moderator

4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985)

Directed by Maya Deren, Cherel Ito, and Teiji Ito, 52 minutes 

A documentary film about dance and possession in Haitian Vodoun compiled from footage Maya Deren (1917 -1961) shot during her fieldwork on the island between 1947 and 1954, and posthumously completed by Cherel and Teiji Ito.

Saturday, February 9th

 

10:00 a.m. – Noon

Morning Film Program                               

The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1967)                                    

Directed by William Greaves, 40 minutes

The official documentary film of the 1966 festival held in Dakar, Senegal, which over 2,000 writers, artists, and performers from throughout the African Diaspora attended, including Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Alvin Ailey, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Aimé Césaire, and other artists, performers, and dignitaries from 30 countries.

 

Zétwal (2008)

Directed by Gilles Elie-dit-Cosaque, 52 minutes

A documentary film that tells the story of local Martinican legend Robert Saint‐Rose’s attempt to propel himself to outer space, through the poetry of Aimé Césaire.

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Dream, Collage, Lightning: Dark Future for Surrealism

Tavia Nyong’o
Associate Professor, Performance Studies
New York University         

2:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Portrait of the Artist: Wangechi Mutu

Isolde Brielmaier
Chief Curator
Savannah College of Art and Design

Adrienne Edwards
Associate Curator, Performa Institute
Ph.D. Candidate, Performance Studies
New York University

2:45 – 3:15 p.m.

The Blood of a Poet: Poetry, Cinema, and Sampling

Paul D. Miller a.k.a. D.J. Spooky and Melvin Van Peebles
A Conversation
Sampling Jean Cocteau, Duke Ellington, and Fats Waller

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 – 5:30 p.m.

Black Surrealism Now

Simone Leigh
Artist

Gabi Ngcobo
Curator and Founder
Center for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg

Adam Pendleton
Artist

Greg Tate
Visiting Professor, Africana Studies
Brown University
Musician, Black Rock Coalition and Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber
Cultural Critic

Isolde Brielmaier
Moderator

Closing Remarks

RoseLee Goldberg 

Get Ready for the Marvelous is organized by Adrienne Edwards, Associate Curator, Performa Institute and Ph.D. Candidate, Performance Studies, New York University.

Images: Left:  Journal cover of Légitime Défense (Self-Defense) (1932). Right: Adam Pendleton (American, b. 1984) with Jaan Evart (Estonian, born 1981), Marc Hollenstein (Swiss, b. 1980). Black Dada (Ian Berry, couple dancing, independence celebration Congo, 1960) (2008/2012). Courtesy the artist, Pace Gallery, and Shane Campbell Gallery.

ABOUT THE PERFORMA INSTITUTE

The Performa Institute is a year-round think tank that fosters learning, critical discourse, and deeper engagement in performance by directly supporting its scholarly investigation. The Performa Institute showcases a range of in-depth programs for the presentation and exploration of ideas and the exchange of research and knowledge, with a focus on the study of history and on forging a new intellectual culture surrounding contemporary art. It asks artists, curators, writers, and scholars to function as educators across disciplines to explore innovative visions for the future of art and ideas in New York City and around the world. The Performa Institute was launched on the occasion of the Performa 11 biennial (2011), during which it presented over 50 artist-led classes and workshops.

The Performa Institute is made possible thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Lambent Foundation for Tides Foundation, Ford Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and the NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions.

ABOUT PERFORMA

Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is the leading international organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live visual art performance in the history of the twentieth century and to generating new directions for the twenty-first century, engaging artists and audiences through experimentation, innovation and collaboration. Performa’s unique commissioning, touring, and year-round education programs, involving all disciplines, forge a new course for contemporary art and culture and culminate in the Performa biennial every other November. In 2005, Performa launched the first-ever biennial dedicated to visual art performance, Performa 05, which was then followed by Performa 07 (2007), Performa 09 (2009), and Performa 11 (2011). Performa will present its fifth biennial, Performa 13, November 1-24, 2013.

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