Black Women Gallerists
THE FACT OF BLACKNESS
Lanise Howard. Suni’s Gaze, oil on canvas (2020)
February 2021 (Los Angeles, CA) ---- Dominique Gallery is pleased to announce THE FACT OF BLACKNESS, a group exhibition guest curated by Jasmine McNeal, founder of Other Faith Art, on view from February 12, 2021 through March 12, 2021, exclusively online via Artsy.net
This group exhibition features a selection of emerging and mid career Black artists including Roger Allan Cleaves, Marcus Davies, Jasmyne Hampton, Lanise Howard, Steve A. Prince, and Laneigh Ramirez and more. THE FACT OF BLACKNESS serves as a visual documentation of identity and references, inspired by psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon’s notable essay of the same title from the fifth chapter in his groundbreaking book Black Skin, White Maks (1952). Fanon’s essay starts with his encounter on a train as he is subjected to white gaze and belittled for the color of his skin. At that moment, Fanon asserts, “I burst apart. Now the fragments have been put together again by another self.”
THE FACT OF BLACKNESS uses contemporary portraiture, abstraction, figuration, and printmaking to show the ways in which words, references, stereotypes and images have fragmented Black identity and experience. McNeal’s curation of artists and works conjures Fanon’s sentiment and exploration of Black consciousness in relation to whiteness. Each of the works convey a similar feeling among Black creatives -- the sense of being outside of oneself, moving between work, business, and self love -- further reinforcing Fanon’s notion of objectification and existing through the lens of others.
The artists included in THE FACT OF BLACKNESS do not speak for all or provide answers to global racism and inequality. However, their work provides a small glimpse into their personal experiences and perspectives. The recent racial uprisings and ongoing pandemic have revealed deep flaws in our history and forced governments, companies, schools, cultural institutions and enterprises to confront and resolve disparate representation. Dominique Gallery is proud to correct some of this disparity by working alongside a growing community of other Black galleries, artists, curators, collectors, and advisors.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, THE FACT OF BLACKNESS will be presented exclusively online through Artsy and will consist of additional virtual programming, including walkthroughs, panel discussions, and more to be further announced.
For additional information on the show (price list, etc) email info@dominiquegallery.com
Be sure to follow (@dominique.gallery and @other.faith) for updates.
FASHION MAMAS - BLACK MAMA MARKET - 11/20 - 11/22
Dominique Gallery is pleased to present a selection of collages by Elise Peterson, a multidisciplinary artist and mama!
Use discount code MAMA15 for 15% off print orders of her work and across the site.!
KCRW - ART INSIDER - SPOTLIGHT SERIES COVERAGE
Written by Lindsay Preston Zappas Aug. 04, 2020 ARTS
“Spotlight” at Dominique
An online group exhibition at Dominique Gallery highlights photography as a direct response to our current moment. While the gallery is currently closed due to the pandemic, the exhibition utilizes the online art sales platform, Artsy, to present a rotating array of works by six young photographers. Gallerist Dominique Clayton told me, “I didn't want the pandemic and limited resources to stop my abilities to highlight artists who want and need to express themselves in this moment.”
While history is often told and understood through documentary photographs, our contemporary image culture gives the medium a more urgent primacy. Titled “SPOTLIGHT,” the exhibition highlights artists who use photography as an expression of identity, whether documenting the community around them, utilizing methods of collage, or staging stylized photoshoots.
The press release explains that “in today’s climate, there are so many issues and people that need our immediate attention and action. ... Photography also works well as a device alongside other media to convey a larger narrative about stereotypes and objectification especially in connection to Black and Brown bodies.”
Clayton explained, “Contemporary art in its most basic definition is the art of today produced by artists living right now, so why not intentionally amplify voices of artists, especially young artists of color, who have documented the world through their very own eyes? Dismantling the ’white gaze’ and other historic limitations and prejudices in art, culture, and media is the only way to correct inequity and fully appreciate all that art has to offer.”
On view: July 24–October 15, 2020 | Open map
Atiya Jones, “Mom, As Above,” 2005. Ilford 400, High Gloss Photographic Print, 20" x 13". Image courtesy of Dominique Gallery.
Kelsey Arrington, “Marketplace,” 2020. Limited Edition Archival Giclee Print, 20 x 16 inches. Image courtesy of Dominique Gallery.
JUNETEENTH - Limited Edition Print Release
#JUNETEENTH - Limited Edition Print Release - In 2018, Dominique Gallery presented the first solo exhibition of the artist, Hasef. The exhibition, STAY FREE featured works on paper, canvas, prints, and video art that examined notions around freedom, time, and place while raising the question of how we interpret and manifest freedom.
Now in 2020 in the wake of a worldwide health crisis and the tragic and senseless killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Oluwatoyin Salau, Rayshard Brooks, and countless others, the question of freedom remains. Are we still free? Were we ever truly free? How can we get free and stay free?
Hasef has created two new visual works to add to his 2018 graphic poster series. In honor of the Juneteenth holiday also known as Freedom Day, marking the liberation of last remaining enslaved African-Americans, and this unprecedented social climate, Dominique Gallery and the artist have produced a special limited edition archival print series.
Fashion Mamas - Black Mama Market
Dominique Gallery owner, Dominique Clayton, is a proud member of Fashion Mamas, the first members-only network for influential mothers who work in fashion and creative industries. From June 5-7, 2020 Fashion Mamas hosted the Black Mama Market to highlight companies owned by Black Mothers. Shop and support more than 50 small businesses owned by BIPOC mothers, and donate to Black Lives Matter organizations. The gallery listed limited edition prints from Black women artists on her roster Deun Ivory and Atiya Jones. Additional work from the last exhibition Healing Feeling is also still for sale.
Press Release - Healing Feeling
Push Projects curatorial project in collaboration with Dominique Gallery announces Healing Feeling.
Healing Feeling is a group exhibition aimed to simultaneously fund-raise for masks to medical workers and supporting artists in a time of a global crisis.
Rebeca Raney, Social Distancing, 2020
April 5 2020 (Los Angeles, CA) ---- Push Projects curatorial project in collaboration with Dominique Gallery is pleased to announce Healing Feeling, a group exhibition aimed at funding artists and fundraising for medical workers. The group exhibition will feature works by Alina Tenser, Amelia Carley, Amia Yokoyama, Ani Bradberry, Azikiwe Mohammed, Bahareh Khoshooee, Becky Kolsrud, Benjy Russell, Brian Vu, Carlos Rosales Silva, Davey Hawkins, Grace Miceli, Jay Davis, Karen Azoulay, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Leah Dixon, Lisa Cobbe, Matthew Morrocco, Mustafa Ali Clayton, MV Carbon, Natalie Baxter, Rebeca Raney, and Tyler Beard. Additional artists will be added in on a rolling basis, which will be announced on @push.projects, @dominque.gallery, and @missmolinga respective instagram handles. Healing Feeling opens on April 6th, 9am PST through Dominique Gallery’s Artsy page.
Healing Feeling addresses an universal ecological melancholy through form and materiality to guiding us into a new world order. With diverse practices including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and scent these works will be exhibited for 4 weeks online. The sales go directly to both the artists and The Mask Project. In light of the current mass medical supply shortage, The Mask Project was created to connect medical professionals who need PPE with American manufacturers that can make them. The project was started by Shannon Lohr, the founder of Factory45, and her network of factory partners across the United States.
Press Release - Stay Free
Hasef, Manifest, 2018
Los Angeles, CA – Dominique Gallery is pleased to announce STAY FREE, its first solo exhibition with the artist, Hasef. The show will open on October 13, 2018 and will remain on view through November 3, 2018. An opening reception will be held Saturday, October 13 from 6:00pm - 9:00pm.
STAY FREE features new work by Hasef including works on paper, canvas, prints, and video art that examine notions around freedom, time, and place. Through text based works on paper, mixed media collage, and moving imagery, Hasef raises the question of how we interpret and manifest freedom and independence. While some of the work focuses more heavily on dismantling preconceived notions, other images call into question our current state of affairs and the next steps that we should take to secure our freedom and future.
Hasef is a multi-disciplinary artist from Los Angeles, California. He uses video, photography, sculpture and painting to investigate the African Diaspora, trans-Atlantic memory, and the effects on American social structure through a millennial perspective. Through his international travels, Hasef has also explored ideas about identity and perceptions of freedom in contrasting environments. His work reminds viewers of critical issues that reappear in different ways across generations.
Dominique Gallery is located in West Adams, Los Angeles, home to a growing community of artists and art spaces. Launched in 2015 as the Studio Gallery Center, Dominique Gallery has since reopened under a new moniker with a focus on emerging and established artists of color and women. STAY FREE is the second exhibition presented by the new gallery and will include an artist walk-through and closing reception.
Press Release - First Born
Marion Tears, mixed media works on paper (2018)
Los Angeles, CA – Dominique Gallery is pleased to announce First Born, it’s first solo exhibition with Denae Howard. The show will open on July 6 and will remain on view through August 4, 2018. An opening reception will be held Friday, July 6 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm.
First Born features over a dozen pieces of work including paintings, installation, and an assemblage of mixed media collages that examine reflections on the interwoven glory and hardship attributed to black female bodies. During the last 5 years, Brooklyn born artist, Denae Howard has produced a remarkable body of work incorporating family, race, humor, conflict, and social commentary. Among the notable works on view in the show is a piece entitled Fate Sisters, consisting of a portrait of the artist and her siblings as children layered with an intricate text diagram outlining the literal deconstruction of black female body stereotypes. This theme carries into other selections in the show which include a mixed media mobile collage and works on paper.
Howard uses an interdisciplinary practice with a focus on printmaking and digital art to create different genres of work interconnected through themes and messaging. Her work serves as a coded-guide that promotes discussion and deeper thought around the similarities and differences in the way individuals experience current systems in place. Howard’s work has shown in galleries and festivals in New York and California and she is a recent graduate of the CalArts MFA program.
Dominique Gallery is located in the West Adams, Los Angeles, home to a growing community of artists and art spaces. Launched in 2015 as the Studio Gallery Center, Dominique Gallery has since reopened under a new moniker with a focus on emerging and established artists of color and women.
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