November 14, 2007-March 9, 2008
Kori Newkirk: 1997-2007
Kori Newkirk is a celebrated multidisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice is based on transforming modest materials into loaded signifiers that question both cultural and aesthetic notions of beauty. Newkirk elegantly blends medium and message-using photographs, wax, hair pomade, beads and neon lights-to forge a new paradigm in art practice. This survey exhibition presents work produced since Newkirk received his MFA from the University of California at Irvine, includes a site-specific project and illustrates how interrelated strands of his practice have converged and developed over time.
The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for black artists locally, nationally, and internationally, and for work that has been inspired by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society. The Executive Director, Thelma Golden, is smart, savy and stylilsh. She has managed to make her voice heard, known and recognized in an overwhelming white male art world. I have mention on several occasions that "I want to be like her when I grow up." It's a great exhibit that we should support, along with the Studio Museum of Harlem.
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