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Projects

HOME 2020
A New Therapy 2020
The Dean Collection

    Gordon Parks: Selections from the Dean Collection

Cooper Gallery, Harvard 2019   

    Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated

2018
DREAMWEAVERS 2019 — UTA Artist Space
No Commission: Miami 2018
No Commission: Miami 2017
No Commission: Berlin 2017
No Commission: Shanghai 2017
No Commission: London 2016
No Commission: Bronx 2016
LaToya Ruby Frazier, 6th Moscow Biennale 2015
Art of Empire 2015
Edge of Chaos 2015
BLACK EYE 2014 — Website
Kehinde Wiley, World Stage Jamaica 2013
Kehinde Wiley, Puma 2010
Mark

HOME

2020


HOME, a virtual presentation developed for The Flag Art Foundation as part of their ongoing series of Instagram exhibitions in which artists, friends and collaborators organize thematic shows as digital visual essays during CoVid lock down. Each features an eclectic range of artworks and objects brought together without the restrictions of time or place.


Images (L to R): Henry Taylor, Cicely and Miles Visit the Obamas, 2017 & Florine Stettheimer, The Cathedrals of Fifth Avenue, 1931 Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998 Images (L to R): Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, panel no. 11: Food Had Doubled in Price Because of The War, 1940-41 & Jean-Siméon Chardin, Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougères, Pots, and Cruets on a Table, 1769 Martha Rosler, film still from Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975 Images (L to R): David Hammons, African American Flag, 1990 & Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Woman with Daughter) from The Kitchen Table Series, 1990 Images (L to R): Raqib Shaw, Seeking Simurgh, 2018-19 & Henri Matisse, Red Room, 1908

HOME, “explores concepts of one’s habitation. I imagine it as a sense of place in magnitudes, similar to powers of ten—  along trajectories of family, food, physical structure, ecological expanse, beingness in the world and oneness with it. The idea travels along histories of art, style, form and media to emphasize that notions of home endure. Belonging is for everyone.” Nicola Vassell

Home
By Ilka Scobie (composed for this presentation)
When we speak of home,
metaphors careen from square footage
to familial longing
From real estate envy
to yearning for a room of one’s own.

In a settler’s nation,
cities rise upon stolen lands,
Home-less-ness equates
those without shelter as less than
those for whom a key unlocks
some safe place.

Home, like love can be elusive
Expensive, exhausting,
exhilarating, existential,
Home as habitat, haven
Nomad’s respite
Nest builder’s retreat
Where we go to isolate
During sleep, so nightmares can turn to dreams.