carlagirl photo.

practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Deana Lawson: Corporeal

Light Work Announces Deana Lawson Exhibition and Gallery Reception
Gallery Reception: Thursday, November 5, 5-8pm
Light Work is pleased to announce the exhibition Corporeal, featuring the work of Deana Lawson.
Lawson’s photographs examine how the body informs personal, political, and historical identities. At first glance, Lawson’s images have a seemingly straightforward quality that dissolves into a complex [...]

Kambui Olujimi: The Clouds Are After Me

“The Clouds Are After Me” explores the anxieties and phobias that permeate the public and private sectors of our lives and nation. Through a series wanted posters picturing clouds as their perpetrators, I draw parallels to the ‘elusive’, ‘ever present dangers’, which we are both running from and hunting for.”

one hundred black women, one hundred actions

We invite you to submit an action, gesture, movement to be included in this new performance work:

one hundred black women, one hundred actions is a performance of critical actions, gestures and movements by one hundred black women from around the world to be documented then performed by one hundred black women in various public and [...]

Roy DeCarava, 9 December 1919 – 27 October 2009

LA Times obituary
NYTimes

This was always my favorite image of his. Sublime.

Soapbox: The Laundromat Project’s First Annual Art Auction

The Laundromat Project’s First Annual Art Auction
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Preview: 12-6 PM, Event: 6-9 PM
Envoy Enterprises, 131 Chrystie St, New York City
Download the auction catalogue!
Join the Laundromat Project and its many friends on Tuesday, November 3rd for a silent auction and celebration to support social change through art in New York City’s most vibrant communities! [...]

keep looking »
  • Have news or announcements? Please E-mail me at carla@carlagirl.net
    © 2010 carla williams. all rights reserved
  • RSS 81 Press

    • Interesting powerHouse news March 13, 2010
      Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 13, 2010
      Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles,  M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
    • The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 13, 2010
      The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]