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Friday, December 14, 2007
Arts
Museum and Gallery Listings









SHEILA PREE BRIGHT: 'SUBURBIA' In a show intended as an alternative
view of contemporary African-American life, Sheila Pree Bright turns
from images of street culture to those of upper-middle-class
domesticity as reached by commuter train. Some of the elegant
interiors have a self-aware black identity built into their décor,
through faux leopard skin and tribal sculptures in one case, and a
collection of racist cartoon ceramics in another. But over all, the
houses could belong to any suburban world anywhere. 138 Gallery, 138
West 17th Street, (212) 633-0324, gallery138.com; closes on Friday. (Cotter)

also

* KAMOINGE: ‘REVEALING THE FACE OF KATRINA’ 
The 10 artists in this group show are members of Kamoinge, a collective
of African-American photographers founded in 1963. All traveled to
different parts of the Gulf region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
and recorded, in distinctively different ways, what they found: ruined
neighborhoods in a panoramic view of the Lower Ninth Ward by Gerald
Cyrus; displaced citizens in portraits by Collette V. Fournier, John
Pinderhughes, Herb Robinson and Radcliffe Roye; signs and memorials in
pictures by Salimah Ali. The individual images are gripping; the
cumulative record far more than that. HP Gallery at Calumet Photo, 22
West 22nd Street, (212) 989-8500, calumetphoto.com, through Dec. 28. (Cotter)

updated

(from Laylah Amatullah Barrayn)

Last night the ultra-fabulous KAMOINGE, Inc., opened their show, 'Revealing the Face of Katrina' at the HP Gallery at Calumet Photo.

Follow the link below for just a taste of the festivities: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21344423@N08/sets/72157603313403765/

Above: Wall of Radcliffe Roye's work