ART BASEL OVR:2020 VIRTUAL ART FAIR

23 – 26 SEPTEMBER 2020

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Jenkins Johnson features works reflecting international political and social issues of 2020 through the work of five African Diaspora artists: Rashaad Newsome, Lisa Corinne Davis, Blessing Ngobeni, Amani Lewis, and Raelis Vasquez. In line with the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “When you see something that is not right, you must stand up, speak up and speak out.”‘

Debuting at OVR:2020 is Rashaad Newsome’s neo-cubist collages, which are components of his new multi-disciplinary “Assembly” series. He draws on advertisements, the Internet, and black and queer culture to produce complex narratives on intersectionality and social practice. He has upcoming projects at Stanford University and Oakland Museum. He has exhibited in the Whitney Biennial. He is in collections, including the Whitney Museum, LACMA, SFMoMA, and Brooklyn Museum.’

Rashaad Newsome

Shade Compositions (SFMOMA)

Majeure Force marks Night Gallery’s first decade in Los Angeles and acts as a dilogy, anniversary exhibition that brings together a diverse roster of artists. The exhibition celebrates how in the first ten years, the gallery has grown from an artist-run storefront space to a premiere institution for contemporary art’s most exciting voices. Beyond showcasing the brilliance of the artists, it also pays tribute to the community that has grown around the gallery and continuously supported it, making Night Gallery a locus of imaginative exchange.

Opening reception: August 7, 6 pm, via Zoom
Performance by Amelia Bande, El Estallido / The Outbreak, 6:30 pm, via Zoom

Through video, installation, sculpture, poetry, performance, and archival documentation, the works in After La vida nueva explore constructions of self and nation by sifting through the unstable terrain of the past. Drawing on histories and archives of feminist, queer, and Third World liberation movements and responding to the uneven forces of neoliberalization, the artists suggest the pursuit of a new life that is concomitant with new ways of being together.

The exhibition features works by Amelia Bande, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, Renée Green, Rummana Hussain, Caroline Key, Alan Michelson, Rashaad Newsome, Catalina Parra, Cici Wu, and Raúl Zurita.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, After La vida nueva consists of an expanded catalogue, available for download, and an online component, hosted by Artists Space, where a weekly series of “spotlights” of different works in the exhibition will include screenings, archival documents, images, and text:

August 8 – 15: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Renée Green, Caroline Key, and Cici Wu
August 16 – 23: Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, Alan Michelson, Rashaad Newsome, and Catalina Parra
August 24 – 31: Amelia Bande, Rummana Hussain, Third World Gay Revolution and Juan Queiroz, and Raúl Zurita

Rashaad Newsome receives the Eyebeam Rapid Response Fellowship!

On July 10th at 8 pm, EDT/5 pm PDT on The Shed NY’s YouTube channel, an international cohort of incredibly talented black and brown queer people will descend upon my virtual ballroom floor to share their skills. Join me Being Gorgeous Jack Mizrahi Gucci, DJ MikeQ, Kevin JZ Prodigy, and the judges’ panel consisting of Arthur Jafa, Kenya Hunt, Kiddy Smile, Mother Eyricka Lanvin, Leggoh JohVera, Niambi E. Stanley, Darnell Moore, Hope Giselle, and Alok Vaid-Menon as we deliberate over who are the next leaders in the global ballroom scene. After the ball join us on Instagram Live at (@rashaadnewsome) for a dance party with DJ April Hunt and DJ MikeQ.

Please join me for the premiere of GO OFF! Joy and Defiance, my new Up Close virtual commission at The Shed New York.
GO OFF! Joy and Defiance is a virtual experience that centers joy as a form of Defiance of oppressive systems that, while still existing, are crumbling around us.

HOW TO WATCH AND PARTICIPATE
To watch the premiere of the video for Go Off! Joy in Defiance, please join us on The Shed’s Instagram or Facebook at ( @theshedny ) or The Shed’s YouTube channel at 6 pm EDT / 3 pm PDT on Sunday, June 14.

Rashaad Newsome FOG Design+Art Fair Artist Talk.

Sunday, January 19 at 11:30 am.

Artist Rashaad Newsome and ARTnews Editor-in-Chief Sarah Douglas will be in conversation about Newsome’s artistic practice, and his current exhibition To Be Real, currently on view at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and the San Francisco Art Institute.

To Be Real

January 10 through February 23, 2020

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and San Francisco Art Institute announce the Bay Area debut of Rashaad Newsome ’s To Be Real, an exhibition environment of collage, sculpture, and the interactive AI humanoid, Being. The exhibition presents a series of neo-Cubist portraits in expressive frames, threading an ornamental glamour through figures reflecting on agency, Blackness, and the radical futurity of emerging identities.

RUNNING

January 17 and 18, 2020 at 7 pm

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and San Francisco Art Institute will present Rashaad Newsome’s immersive performance, Running. In this abstract portrait of soul, composed for light and voice, three singers explore the “vocal run”: a musicology term for a rapid series of ascending or descending musical notes, usually improvised and sung in quick succession. With the vocalists Kyron El, Aaron Marcellus, and Devin Michael from its New York City premiere Running features an original score composed by the artist, incorporating samples of vocal runs by Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, James Brown, and Kelly Price, among others.

FIVE SFMOMA Prints
September 19, 2019 – May 30, 2020, at NY Live Arts Ford Foundation Live Lobby Gallery 

Using 3D data obtained during his 2016 FIVE SFMOMA performance, Rashaad translated the fierce, spiraling movements of five vogue dancers to the two-dimensional surface of the prints. In collaboration with the Tamarind Institute, ten plates were created and printed using traditional lithographic methods. In keeping with his expansive, interdisciplinary method of working, Newsome brought 3D printing and collage into the project, incorporating three-dimensional printed forms, and collaged images of the of dancers body into each print. The suite includes five distinct prints representing each of the five dancers. This series incorporates a complex layering of performance, ephemeral and recorded movement, traditional printing and digital technology, bringing a new vibrancy and dimensionality to the printed surface. Also on view will be the performance video of FIVE SFMOMA as well as a newly commissioned large scale wall vinyl titled SHAWAM!