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Artist news from Gallery 138

ACCRA SHEPP has been commissioned by Studio, the magazine of the Studio Museum in Harlem, to extend The Islands Of New York, his waterfront project, to include Harlem. He also created a postcard for their Harlem Postcard project; it was on exhibition November 12.

TERRY BODDIE is directing Site Specific Projects, a series of long-term exhibition [...]

Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait

I (in collaboration with Deirdre Visser) have work in this show along with Accra Shepp, Victor Masayesva, Jr., etc. Check it out if you’re in the area.

Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait
October 24, 2009-February 21, 2010
VISIT   Princeton University Art Museum Princeton, NJ 08544   609-258-3788
OPEN Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to [...]

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Accra SheppThe Tobacco Project
May 8 – June 7, 2008Gallery 138 West 17th Street, 5th FloorNew York, NY 10011(212) 633-0324contact@gallery138.com | http://www.gallery138.comOpening receptionThursday, May 8, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Accra Shepp reads from his book AtlasWednesday, May 21 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
ACCRA SHEPPThe Tobacco ProjectExhibition Dates: May 8 – June 7, 2008Opening Reception for the Artist: [...]

Nelson Hancock Gallery111 Front St. #204, dumbo – Brooklyn, NY 11201
On the Page, On the Wall: four photographic books displayed
According to Lewis Baltz’s well-known formulation, “It might be more useful, if not necessarily true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.” This exhibition at Nelson Hancock Gallery includes [...]

  • CARLAGIRL PHOTO was founded on 14 February 1999 by Carla Willliams, a photographer, writer, and editor, born, raised and heading back to (yea!) Los Angeles, California.

    It was established with two goals: to be able to make my own work widely available for free, and to make accessible my research about artists of the African Diaspora, especially photographers, and in particular women. As it developed it grew to also include GLBTQ artists.

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