Past
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Wangari Mathenge
5 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Nicola Vassell is pleased to present Bedimmed Boundaries: Between Wakefulness and Sleep, a new series of paintings and video installation by Wangari Mathenge in which she observes her own sleeping body in order to derive profound, personal insights into the nature of altered states of consciousness. This recent work depicts... Read more -
The Selves
27 Jun - 9 Aug 2024 “An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world can tell what it is like to be alive.” —James... Read more -
Ming Smith: On the Road
2 May - 15 Jun 2024 Nicola Vassell is pleased to present Ming Smith: On the Road, a selection of photographs from the artist’s archive that encapsulates the arc of her exploratory impulses as she sought and probed new subject matter and formal innovation from 1970 through 1993. Encompassing never-before-seen vintage and contemporary prints of images... Read more -
Terence Nance: Univitellin
21 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 On view March 21-April 20, 2024, Nicola Vassell is delighted to present Univitellin, a special installation of Terence Nance’s eponymous short film from 2016, and a selection of photographs from the artist’s archive depicting family, faith and the synthesis of creative and spiritual practice. Univitellin recounts a fated and fractured... Read more -
Elizabeth Schwaiger: Now & Now & Now
11 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 Read more -
Alvaro Barrington: Island Life
9 Nov - 21 Dec 2023 Read more -
George Rouy:
Endless Song 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Read more -
We Buy Gold: SEVEN.
29 Jun - 11 Aug 2023 SEVEN. explores the ways in which artists disrupt the politics of space, time, and language to constitute another world. In their fertile hands, the measure of time lengthens, bodies morph, and the fixed use-value of objects and language slips—highlighting the foundational fractures present within contemporary society. Read more -
Uman
I Want Everything Now 4 May - 17 Jun 2023 Read more -
Che Lovelace
Bathers 9 Mar - 22 Apr 2023 Read more -
Julia Chiang
Salt on Our Skin 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 I’m always interested in our bodies as vessels, what we contain and what we cannot. All that comes out of us, all that is within us. The borders both real and imagined. Existing in the in-between. Not American enough not Chinese enough, not enough enough. I imagine the millions of... Read more -
Light Forces: Rita Letendre & Fred Eversley
10 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Read more -
Alteronce Gumby
The Color of Everything 8 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Nicola Vassell Gallery is pleased to present The Color of Everything, a solo exhibition of new abstract paintings and sculpture by Alteronce Gumby. It is the culmination of eight years of experiments and theories, which progressed as the artist investigated the history of monochromatic painting, color theory, cosmology, astrophysics, interstellar... Read more -
Uncanny Interiors
7 Jul - 19 Aug 2022 Uncanny Interiors is a group show examining novel and stirring interpretations of interior space, including still lifes and figures in rooms. The exhibition includes works by Anne Buckwalter, Lenz Geerk, Vera Girivi, David Hockney, Shara Hughes, Che Lovelace, Kerry James Marshall, Henri Matisse, Danielle McKinney, Kent O ’ Connor, Toyin... Read more -
Alberta Whittle
Respectability Won't Save You: A Caribbean Haunting - Curated by Arianna Nourse 18 May - 25 Jun 2022 Nicola Vassell Gallery is pleased to present Alberta Whittle: Respectability won't save you: a Caribbean haunting, an exhibition of paintings, tuftings, drawings and video work curated by Arianna Nourse. For the artist’s grandfather, Gladstone Fitzroy Barker, there would be no combing of hair outside; no shiny clothes on his family... Read more -
Frida Orupabo: Closed Up Like A Fist
17 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 Nicola Vassell Gallery is pleased to present “Closed Up Like A Fist,” an exhibition of collages and digital prints by Frida Orupabo, on view March 17 - April 30, 2022. Orupabo's multidisciplinary practice excavates colonial archives and digital sources to amass her materials of dispossessed imagery. By splicing and combining... Read more -
Moses Sumney: Blackalachia
3 Feb - 5 Mar 2022 Nicola Vassell Gallery is pleased to present Moses Sumney: Blackalachia, a feature length performance film and photographic series created by the artist in the North Carolina stretch of the Blue Ridge Mountains during the summer of 2020. Sumney’s auteurial debut highlights issues at the center of his interdisciplinary practice, including... Read more -
Rested
10 Nov 2021 - 8 Jan 2022 Nicola Vassell Gallery is pleased to present Rested, a group exhibition exploring the body in varying degrees of ease, rest or inactivity. On view Nov 10 - Jan 8, Rested brings together work by Benny Andrews, Marlene Dumas, Chase Hall, Wangari Mathenge, Kayode Ojo, Frida Orupabo, George Rouy, Ming Smith,... Read more -
Alvaro Barrington: GARVEY 1: BIRTH — The Quiet Storm
10 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 Nicola Vassell Gallery is pleased to present, Alvaro Barrington: GARVEY 1: BIRTH -The Quiet Storm. It is the first chapter in a four-part ode by the artist to the life and work of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican national hero, and political activist who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in... Read more -
The Earth, That Is Sufficient
15 Jul - 1 Sep 2021 Nicola Vassell Gallery is pleased to present, The Earth, That is Sufficient. The assembled, multi-generational group enlists various narrative methodologies to describe landscape in traditional terms and as new terrain possessing original and revolutionary spirit. The landscapes on view manifest as thought, object, vista and action. They offer up literal... Read more -
Ming Smith: Here For A Reason
29 Jun - 2 Jul 2021 Ming Smith: Here For A Reason is a photographic series by Ming Smith introducing Jordan Brand’s largest active WNBA roster— an initiative which unlocks the power, possibility, and strength of women. The project embodies the Brand’s commitment to championing Black creativity through art, culture, and fashion. The exhibition includes portraits... Read more -
Ming Smith: Evidence
20 May - 26 Jun 2021 Evidence features a combination of rare, vintage silver gelatin and never-before-exhibited archival prints, spanning the arc of Smith's fifty-year career. The assembled pictures exemplify the artist's keen, enduring eye and her use of the photographic medium to depict charged atmospheres and surreal states with a cast of evocative landscapes, blurred... Read more
