January 1, 2023 NEWSLETTER
PIGMENT INTERNATIONAL’S 2022 TOP EXHIBITIONS; WHAT'S COMING IN 2023
They are all so fabulous that we had to put them in alphabetical order.  The awards, the acclaim, the fabulosity of it all.  It was so fabulous we dubbed it Black Fine Art:  The Gilded Age.  Pigment was there to report on some of it, click the links to see our coverage.   

Basquiat – King Pleasure,  NYC
Galerie Myrtis - The Beautiful and the Damned, Baltimore
Called to the Camera – New Orleans Museum of Art 
Faith Ringgold: American People – The New Museum, NYC
Kehinde Wiley - Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence, Venice 
Galerie Myrtis – The Afro-Futurist Manifesto Blackness Reimagined, Venice
Nick Cave – Forothermore – Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 
Robert Colescott – Chicago Cultural Center 
Simone Leigh – Loophole of Retreat, Venice 
Southern University New Orleans Art Museum - “I Fear For My Life: The Art of Justice"

 

·      Kehinde Wiley - Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence, Venice 

·      Basquiat – King Pleasure,  NYC

·      Called to the Camera – New Orleans Museum of Art 

·      Nick Cave  Forothermore – Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 
Robert Colescott Chicago Cultural Center
Work by Lavett Ballard in the Beautiful & the Damned, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore
·      Galerie Myrtis – The Afro-Futurist Manifesto Blackness Reimagined, Venice. Work by M. Scott Johnson


Wisconsin Black Art & Culture Expo 2023, February 1 – March 31, Mahogany Gallery, Racine, Wisconsin
1-54  Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech | 9-12 February 2023
re:mancipation, Feb 6–Jun 25, 2023 – Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wis.
Black Creativity, Chicago, February 18, 2023
Nick Cave: Forothermore – Guggenheim NYC, through April 10th
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, MFA Boston, March 4 – July 9th
Myrtis Gallery – The Afro-Futurist Manifesto Blackness Reimagined, The Reginald Lewis Museum, Baltimore – February
Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson, Picturing Justice – Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), various locations and dates. 
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World - The Renwick Gallery, NYC, through April 2, 2023.


   re:mancipation, Feb 6–Jun 25, 2023 – Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wis. features work by Sanford Biggers
Focusing on the work of Black potters in the 19th-century American South, this landmark exhibition presents approximately 50 ceramic objects from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, a center of stoneware production in the decades before the Civil War, together with contemporary responses.
·      Black Art & Culture Expo 2023, February 1 – March 31, Mahogany Gallery, Racine, Wisconsin
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World showcases the dynamic landscape of American craft today. On view through April 2 at Smithsonian American Art Museum’s (SAAM) Renwick Gallery.

PIGMENT INTERNATIONAL HOSTS SALON TALK ON MENTAL HEALTH

JANUARY 7TH AT ARTISTS ON THE 9INE
At Eternity’s Gate” features Willhem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh.  van Gogh embodies our concept of tormented artist, and Dafoe’s portrayal was riveting, along with Oscar Isaac as Paul Gauguin. Gauguin, played as just a bit shady, made sure to swap paintings with van Gogh prior to his death, and if the film is to be believed, was the reason van Gogh filleted his ear.  When van Gogh quotes scripture saying ‘life is for sowing, the harvest is not here’ it was as if he had penned his own obituary.  He said his work was something for the those not yet born.  And the future has delivered its verdict, this year van Gogh’s, Verger avec cypres (1888) sold for $117M at auction, the fourth highest sale of the year. He put his soul into his art, he was deserving of so much more.  Not addressed was the marketing genius of van Gogh’s sister-in-law Johanna who made Vincent a household name after his death.  That’s a movie I can’t wait to see.  

On January 7th, Pigment International will host a Salon Talk at Artists on the 9ine (735 E. 79th Street) on mental health that will include two amazing emerging Chicago artists Eddie Santana “Edo” White and Blake Lenoir.  It is not exaggeration to say that art ‘saved, and continues to shape both of their lives’ and Pigment International is proud that they are among our founding artists.  They will be in conversation with Dr. Obari Carman at 3:00 p.m.  Join us at 1:00 for Fitness Tips from Fitness Boutique by Tiffany.   Snag a few after Christmas art and art inspired gifts too.

We'll also showcase photography by Saint The Good Boy and TyKeith Nelson.
Edo White
Blake Lenoir
Art on the 9ine continues with our partners Bop Biz and Black Mall. Join us on January 7th beginning at 1:00 pm for conversations on health and wellness.
Our favourite Christmas gift.
Our sincerest thanks to British, Allison, Sherronda, Veronica, Valerie, Vicky, Dana, Martha, Paul, Edo, Blake, Phil, Sandra, Perri, Devorah, Simone, Myrtis, Fay, Bernard, Patric, Vicki, Bruce, Patricia, Rodney.  Dr. Butler, Frank, Ted, Steve, Jenn, Marissa, Sherman, Juliette, Angel, Atim, M. Scott, Tawny, Delita, John, Valerie, Bishop, Rodney, Thomas, Dwayne, Danny, Joe, Lavette, Rivet, Cassie, Ro, Nalani, Nedra, Michelle, Monique, Dilla, Isaiah, Feather, Roseann, Oscar, Tracy, Tammi, and so many more for your support in 2022.  Our hearts are overflowing!
TO SEE TO HEAR TO READ
AT ETERNITY'S GATE

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
BRAZILIAN CURATOR ADRIANO PEDROSA WILL HELM THE 2024 VENICE BIENNALE, MAKING HIM THE FIRST LATIN AMERICAN TO ORGANIZE THE EVENT


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