Installation view of Jo Smail: If All The World Were A Blackbird at Goya Contemporary Gallery

JO SMAIL: IF ALL THE WORLD

WERE A BLACKBIRD

On view at Goya Contemporary Gallery through November 23, 2022

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“Smail’s new exhibit is equal parts blended diversity and congruous incongruity. You don’t have to be a synesthete to see, taste, or touch sounds. Just use your imagination. Jo Smail’s “Songs of Beating Wings,” one of three large abstractions in her solo show If All The World Were A Blackbird at Goya Contemporary, offers a nod to the sky-high flight of a bird chorus….”

Read Barry Nemmett’s full review in BmoreArt here

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Goya Contemporary Gallery will be closed

November 24 - November 26, 2022

We will reopen Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Sonya Clark, Braille Emancipation, 2011

GOYA CONTEMPORARY at IFPDA Print Fair, NYC

Don’t miss the final weekend of the IFPDA Print Fair 2022. Though the physical fair has passed with great success, our curated selection of works remain online through this Sunday, November 13.

Exhibiting Artists Include:

Sanford Biggers | Louisa Chase | Sonya Clark | Oletha DeVane

Louise Fishman | Sam Gilliam | Francisco de Goya | Per Kirkeby 

Charles Mason III | Joan Mitchell | Liliana Porter | Soledad Salamé

Joyce J. Scott |Alan Shields | Jo Smail | Paula Wilson

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JOYCE J. SCOTT

Joyce J. Scott, Dead Albino Boy for Sale, 2022

Exhibition | The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Featuring Sonya Clark, Joyce J. Scott, Sanford Biggers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO through February 5, 2023

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Exhibition | What Are You Looking At? An Eccentric Chorus of Artists Working in Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA through January 22, 2023

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Exhibition | The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD from November 10, 2022 to September 30, 2023

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Exhibition | Visionary Women: Janet Biggs and Joyce J. Scott, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA through December 3, 2022

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Exhibition | Wombmanity, BWI Marshall International Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD through March 1, 2023

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Residency | Toledo Museum of Art selects Joyce J. Scott as 52nd Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP) Artist in Residence

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Award | Joyce J. Scott receives Visionary Woman Award, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

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Award | Joyce J. Scott receives Honorary Doctorate for Humane Letters, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

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SONYA CLARK

Sonya Clark, Hair Craft Project with Dionne, 2014

Exhibition | Sonya Clark: Hair/Craft, UMBC in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, Baltimore, MD through March 23, 2023

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Exhibition | This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC through April 2, 2023

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Exhibition | The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Featuring Sonya Clark, Joyce J. Scott, Sanford Biggers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO through February 5, 2023

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Grant | The Pew Foundation awarded a grant for Declaration House to Monument Lab; lead artist Sonya Clark; a dynamic curatorial team of Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Paul Farber, and Naima Murphy Salcido; and five artists/historians in residence to develop a 2024 public art installation, a book, and public programs with local cultural organizations and arts leaders that reframes what is and what is not self-evident about this revolutionary site across its history

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Acquisition | The Smithsonian American Art Museum announces the acquisition of Monument by Sonya Clark. Monument is currently on view in This Present Moment: Crafting A Better World, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

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Acquisition | Additional acquisitions announced by Barry Art Museum, Norfolk, VA; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven, CT

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Literature | Comic If You Stitch With Me, I'll Tell You a Story: The Work of Sonya Clark. Illustrated by Abigail Rajunov. This comic is part of a series Drawn to Art: Tales of Inspiring Women Artists that illuminates the stories of women artists in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

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TIMOTHY APP

Timothy App, Bacchanal, 2005, Collection of Akron Art Museum

Exhibition | Share the Past, Create the Future: Selections from the Akron Art Museum Collection, Akron Art Museum, OH through April 9, 2023

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Acquisition | Akron Art Museum announces the acquisition of Bacchanal by Timothy App. App developed a body of work that engages a complex exploration of abstract painting and has contribution to the larger art historical narrative around geometric practice. App’s signature style with its assertive visual tensions reveals a concise and thoughtful understanding of the nature of painting, demonstrating his status as one of the region’s most important living painters

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CHARLES MASON III

Charles Mason III, but we kept fighting, 2020

Exhibition | The Radical Voice of Blackness Speaks of Resistance and Joy, Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD from November 10, 2022 to September 30, 2023

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SOLEDAD SALAMÉ

Soledad Salamé, Ice, 2018

Press | Soledad Salamé featured in Posit Journal Fall 2022 Issue

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HOWIE LEE WEISS

Howie Lee Weiss, Centerpiece Series

Exhibition | Faculty and Friends of the Center for Visual Arts, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD through January 6, 2023

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Exhibition | Howie Lee Weiss: Centerpiece, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA through November 2022

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