RECOVERY A.C.T.
(Art, Culture, & Technology)
July 10th - August 29, 2020
Featured Artists: Alexandra Antoine, Alex Bershaw, Ellen Bepp, Rohan DeCosta, Patrick Dougher, David Graves, Kay Hickman, Al Johnson, Oding Muata, Eric Murphy, Najee Omar, Martin Segobia, Malik Seneferu, Amir Abdul-Shakur, Katie Sugarman, Lordy Rodriguez, William Rhodes, and Leisel Whitlock
Opening Reception: Friday, July 10th, 6-9pm | Opening Libation Ceremony Virtual performance by Poet Najee Omar (In gallery and via ZOOM)
Artist Talk: Friday, August 7th 6pm – 9pm (In gallery and via ZOOM)
Poetry Reading: Saturday, August 8th 2-4pm | Hosted by TeaRoots.org featuring Genny Lim (SF Jazz Poet Laureate), Wanda Sabir (Journalist), Michael Warr (Former Deputy Director, MoAD) and more.
For full list of performers and other info, visit: http://tearoots.org
Additional programs to be announced To Register for events, visit: https://recoveryactexhibit.eventbrite.com
Curated by: Eric Murphy | Tarisse Iriarte of Curated Concepts LLC.
Where: Joyce Gordon Gallery
406 14th Street Oakland, CA. 94612 (12th St. Bart)
www.joycegordongallery.com
Recovery A.C.T. Online Exhibit - www.rootsartistregistry.com/recoveryact
For more information please contact:
Joyce Gordon
info@joycegordongallery.com
www.jgordongallery.com
510.465.8928
Joyce Gordon Gallery is pleased to announce, Recovery A.C.T. (Art, Culture, and Technology) an inaugural exhibition by the Brookland Exchange Project (B.E.P.). This carefully curated group exhibit includes selected works from contemporary artists, performing artists and photographers based in the Bay Area and East Coast.
The title, Recovery A.C.T. was inspired by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, nicknamed the Recovery Act, a stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. This call & response to artists inspired them to imagine, create, enhance & define our new world and how Arts, Culture and Technology play a role in our recovery process.
The Brookland Exchange Project (B.E.P.) is founded by curators Eric Murphy of (Oakland, CA) and Tarisse Iriarte (Brooklyn, NY & Puerto Rico) owner of an NY-based Art Advisory firm, Curated Concepts, LLC. IG @curatedconcepts
Mission Statement: The mission of the Brookland Exchange Project is rooted in maintaining cultural & historical preservation of the sister cities Brooklyn and Oakland by cultivating curatorial exchange, powerful exhibitions and immersive programs that center predominantly on black and brown communities.
Joyce Gordon Gallery is a commercial fine art gallery located in the downtown district of Oakland, California. It exhibits art that reflects the social and cultural diversity of the Bay Area and international artists. The aim of the gallery is to respect the creative pursuits of the individual and seeks to make such work accessible to a broad audience. IG/FB @Joycegordongallery www.jgordongallery.com/
406 14th St. in downtown Oakland (12th Street Bart). Regular gallery hours, Wed - Sat 12-6pm or schedule a private tour at a special time? We have gloves, hand sanitizer, extra masks if needed and social distancing markers. We are in compliance with the Alameda County Health Department guidelines.
Click HERE for press release (pdf)
(Art, Culture, & Technology)
July 10th - August 29, 2020
Featured Artists: Alexandra Antoine, Alex Bershaw, Ellen Bepp, Rohan DeCosta, Patrick Dougher, David Graves, Kay Hickman, Al Johnson, Oding Muata, Eric Murphy, Najee Omar, Martin Segobia, Malik Seneferu, Amir Abdul-Shakur, Katie Sugarman, Lordy Rodriguez, William Rhodes, and Leisel Whitlock
Opening Reception: Friday, July 10th, 6-9pm | Opening Libation Ceremony Virtual performance by Poet Najee Omar (In gallery and via ZOOM)
Artist Talk: Friday, August 7th 6pm – 9pm (In gallery and via ZOOM)
Poetry Reading: Saturday, August 8th 2-4pm | Hosted by TeaRoots.org featuring Genny Lim (SF Jazz Poet Laureate), Wanda Sabir (Journalist), Michael Warr (Former Deputy Director, MoAD) and more.
For full list of performers and other info, visit: http://tearoots.org
Additional programs to be announced To Register for events, visit: https://recoveryactexhibit.eventbrite.com
Curated by: Eric Murphy | Tarisse Iriarte of Curated Concepts LLC.
Where: Joyce Gordon Gallery
406 14th Street Oakland, CA. 94612 (12th St. Bart)
www.joycegordongallery.com
Recovery A.C.T. Online Exhibit - www.rootsartistregistry.com/recoveryact
For more information please contact:
Joyce Gordon
info@joycegordongallery.com
www.jgordongallery.com
510.465.8928
Joyce Gordon Gallery is pleased to announce, Recovery A.C.T. (Art, Culture, and Technology) an inaugural exhibition by the Brookland Exchange Project (B.E.P.). This carefully curated group exhibit includes selected works from contemporary artists, performing artists and photographers based in the Bay Area and East Coast.
The title, Recovery A.C.T. was inspired by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, nicknamed the Recovery Act, a stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama in February 2009. This call & response to artists inspired them to imagine, create, enhance & define our new world and how Arts, Culture and Technology play a role in our recovery process.
The Brookland Exchange Project (B.E.P.) is founded by curators Eric Murphy of (Oakland, CA) and Tarisse Iriarte (Brooklyn, NY & Puerto Rico) owner of an NY-based Art Advisory firm, Curated Concepts, LLC. IG @curatedconcepts
Mission Statement: The mission of the Brookland Exchange Project is rooted in maintaining cultural & historical preservation of the sister cities Brooklyn and Oakland by cultivating curatorial exchange, powerful exhibitions and immersive programs that center predominantly on black and brown communities.
Joyce Gordon Gallery is a commercial fine art gallery located in the downtown district of Oakland, California. It exhibits art that reflects the social and cultural diversity of the Bay Area and international artists. The aim of the gallery is to respect the creative pursuits of the individual and seeks to make such work accessible to a broad audience. IG/FB @Joycegordongallery www.jgordongallery.com/
406 14th St. in downtown Oakland (12th Street Bart). Regular gallery hours, Wed - Sat 12-6pm or schedule a private tour at a special time? We have gloves, hand sanitizer, extra masks if needed and social distancing markers. We are in compliance with the Alameda County Health Department guidelines.
Click HERE for press release (pdf)
Ellen Bepp
Ellen Bepp, Unity, handcut paper, 32" x 44" (hung on 54" rod), NFS
Yuri Kochiyama (1921-2014) was a Japanese American activist and civil rights leader. I had the honor of meeting and getting to know her during the years when she lived in Oakland. She has been one of my strongest inspirations and role models. When I was a young person growing up in the 50s and 60s, there were few Asian or Asian American women portrayed as leaders in the media. By the time I became involved in the Asian American movement in the early 70s, Yuri stood out as a strong Asian American leader and someone I felt I could relate to. She has been outspoken on so many political issues and has educated many on relating our struggle to an international struggle.
To me, Yuri’s thoughts, ideas and legacy live on and thus through this exhibition I would like to humbly pay tribute to her words that will continue to empower and influence future generations. I hope this piece dedicated to Yuri Kochiyama will touch those who know of her life and work but it will educate and inform a new audience as well.
-Ellen Bepp
To me, Yuri’s thoughts, ideas and legacy live on and thus through this exhibition I would like to humbly pay tribute to her words that will continue to empower and influence future generations. I hope this piece dedicated to Yuri Kochiyama will touch those who know of her life and work but it will educate and inform a new audience as well.
-Ellen Bepp
Ellen Bepp, No, Yes, Sí, handcut paper, 18 1/2" x 18", NFS
On September 26, 2014, forty-three students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were abducted and disappeared in Iguala, Mexico. Their families, friends and human rights groups are still seeking justice.
This piece is dedicated to the Ayotzinapa 43 and is a plea for the demands of the families to finally find the truth and to bring the perpetrators of the crime to justice. It refers to conflict between people, distilled into the words: “NO vs. YES vs SI” until ultimately the voice of the people can prevail.
-Ellen Bepp
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
This piece is dedicated to the Ayotzinapa 43 and is a plea for the demands of the families to finally find the truth and to bring the perpetrators of the crime to justice. It refers to conflict between people, distilled into the words: “NO vs. YES vs SI” until ultimately the voice of the people can prevail.
-Ellen Bepp
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
David Graves
David Graves, Travelling Storytellers, 36 x 48", mixed media $6,000
This composition features a couple who are traveling buskers and storytellers during the period of reconstruction after abolition in the United States. Spreading folktales and history to the newly freed people in the South. They help them to recover from the traumas of slavery and stolen legacy!
--David Graves
--David Graves
David Graves, John Henry, 20 x 30", mixed media $1,500
The legendary steel driving folk-hero whose legend proclaims that he competed and won in a contest against a steam-powered rock drilling machine, only to have his heart give out afterwards. Though the tale is foreboding in its message of automation eclipsing human efforts, it is also a tale of determination and reminds us that we have the strength to conquer large obstacles and that our economic recovery may depend on prioritizing the need to extend and upgrade our infrastructure. Geographically, physically and spiritually!
--David Graves
--David Graves
David Graves, Reclamation, 24 x 30", mixed media $2,000 ~SOLD~
A beautiful young woman reclaims the pride and cultural identity of her ancestors. She carries the flames of hope and spiritual continuity into a new era.
--David Graves
--David Graves
David Graves, Drummer Boy, 12 x 18", mixed media $500
This artwork depicts a young drummer during the U.S. civil war. A war fought and won for his freedom. The legacy of the social divisions and oppressions of that period continue to haunt us today. Perhaps society is headed for another major conflict in which, hopefully, moral righteousness and spiritual elevation will prevail.
--David Graves
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--David Graves
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Rohan Decosta
Rohan Decosta, Levels II It / Twomps God, 2019, black and white digital photo collage print on fine art paper, 27.5 x 28" - $700
I lived in Fruitvale for six years before I published a book of poetry and photography titled "The Edge of Fruitvale". Featured in the book is a photograph of a homeless encampment right beneath the 22nd street bridge on East 12th Street. I saw this view often as I frequently walked through the neighborhood. The presence of a rampant inequality and the weight of a devastating housing crisis was evident. I thought about all of the systemic ails that we face, and how so many of us are undernourished, under-uplifted, and uncared for. I thought about mercy, I thought about god, I thought about hope, and how we cling to it for dear life.
--Rohan Decosta
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
--Rohan Decosta
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Martin Segobia
Martin Segobia, American Farmer, 2.62 x 6", pen and ink on paper $451
Martin Segobia, American Nurse, 2.62 x 6", pen and ink on paper $451
Martin Segobia, American Firefighter, 2.62 x 6", pen and ink on paper $451
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William Rhodes
William Rhodes, Offering, carved wood, pencil, paint, needle and thread; 2.5x14x10in $2,000
William Rhodes, MAMA, carved wood, pencil, paint, thread on paper and neon glass, 48x26x6" $5,000
William Rhodes, MAN, reclaimed box, pencil, ink on paper, paint and neon glass, 22x18x10"
William Rhodes, You Reap What You Sow, Carved wood, pencil, ink on paper, paint and neon glass, 59x37x6" $6,000
You Reap What you Sow - I took the title "You Reap What You Sow" from the biblical verse Galatians 6:7-9. For me this piece is about how America has dealt with its Black population. I see a constant reminder that the negative deeds of a Nation must be resolved. The future is based on actions from the past. I witnessed this when I visited my family in the south that were farmers. The farmer that plants good seeds in the Spring would receive a bountiful harvest in the Summer. Our deeds and actions have effects down the line. Sometimes it takes hundreds of years to see the results but, every action has a reaction. America is seeing it's actions from the past resurfacing in the protest from the George Floyd murder.
--William Rhodes
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--William Rhodes
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Katie Sugarman
Katie Sugarman, Anthony Robinson, 16x20" archival pigment print, $100 unframed/$150 framed*
Katie Sugarman, Anthony Robinson, 16x20" archival pigment print, $100 unframed/$150 framed*
Anthony Robinson | heart transplant recipient
“Because of the gracious gift from my donor, I am honored, blessed, and excited to enjoy life with a healthy heart. I fell in love and married my sweetheart. I have been by my son’s side for important milestones, including graduating from college and getting married. I enjoy spending precious time with family and friends, traveling the world with my wife, and watching my granddaughter grow up. Life is a grand blessing, and I am living it to the fullest.”and friends, traveling the world with my wife, and watching my granddaughter grow up. Life is a grand blessing, and I am living it to the fullest.”
--Katie Sugarman
“Because of the gracious gift from my donor, I am honored, blessed, and excited to enjoy life with a healthy heart. I fell in love and married my sweetheart. I have been by my son’s side for important milestones, including graduating from college and getting married. I enjoy spending precious time with family and friends, traveling the world with my wife, and watching my granddaughter grow up. Life is a grand blessing, and I am living it to the fullest.”and friends, traveling the world with my wife, and watching my granddaughter grow up. Life is a grand blessing, and I am living it to the fullest.”
--Katie Sugarman
Katie Sugarman, Dr.Maisha Gray Diggs, 16x20" archival pigment print, $100 unframed/$150 framed*
Katie Sugarman, Dr. Maisha Gray Diggs, 16x20" archival pigment print, $100 unframed/$150 framed* ~SOLD~
Dr. Maisha Gray Diggs, double cornea recipient
“I honor my life-enhancing gift and my generous donors by living every day to the fullest. With sight restored, I enjoy a rewarding career as a research scientist. In this role, I am able to create products, processes and systems that improve the lives of the world’s children, cats, barbeque lovers and job-hunters.”
--Katie Sugarman
“I honor my life-enhancing gift and my generous donors by living every day to the fullest. With sight restored, I enjoy a rewarding career as a research scientist. In this role, I am able to create products, processes and systems that improve the lives of the world’s children, cats, barbeque lovers and job-hunters.”
--Katie Sugarman
Katie Sugarman, Taiwan Walker, 16x20" archival pigment print, $100 unframed/$150 framed*
Katie Sugarman, Taiwan Walker, 16x20" archival pigment print, $100 unframed/$150 framed*
Taiwan Walker | kidney recipient
“Receiving a kidney from my aunt represents a love and loyalty like no other. I am now able to enjoy life with no restraints. With this gift of life, I can explore the world, and spend time on humanitarian efforts that benefit my community.“
--Katie Sugarman
“Receiving a kidney from my aunt represents a love and loyalty like no other. I am now able to enjoy life with no restraints. With this gift of life, I can explore the world, and spend time on humanitarian efforts that benefit my community.“
--Katie Sugarman
Giving Me Life: A Visual Journey of African American Organ and Tissue Transplant Recipients
This project aimed to use the power of photography to tell the stories of African American Bay Area transplant recipients who overcame incredible obstacles to get their health and lives back. “Our campaign (explored) how health disparities facing African Americans—high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, obesity, and, yes … systemic racism—are root causes for the overrepresentation of African American patients on transplant waiting lists across the U.S,” commented Janice Whaley, CEO of Donor Network West.
Each of the featured recipient’s stories is more powerful than the next, overcoming years of trauma and fighting for their health-coming within days of death while waiting for lifesaving organ and tissue transplants. Because of their strength, determination and resilience, they have not just survived, they have thrived. These survivors have courageously shared their stories as an affirmation of their resilience and recovery. Some of their many accomplishments include: returning to work as a captain of the San Francisco Fire Department; publishing award-winning content as an author and scholar; making breakthroughs in science; leading STEM initiatives as a senior executive for large corporations; engaging in humanitarian work and helping others; marrying the love of their life; relishing in the joys of childhood without the tethers of frequent hospitalizations; and living their lives.
Please consider the impact you could have by becoming a donor. These amazing people, along with my mother, are alive and thriving today because of someone’s incredible generosity.
The award-winning “Giving Me Life” campaign was created in partnership with Ayanna Anderson and Donor Network West in 2018.
--Katie Sugarman
*All proceeds will be donated to The East Oakland Collective
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
This project aimed to use the power of photography to tell the stories of African American Bay Area transplant recipients who overcame incredible obstacles to get their health and lives back. “Our campaign (explored) how health disparities facing African Americans—high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, obesity, and, yes … systemic racism—are root causes for the overrepresentation of African American patients on transplant waiting lists across the U.S,” commented Janice Whaley, CEO of Donor Network West.
Each of the featured recipient’s stories is more powerful than the next, overcoming years of trauma and fighting for their health-coming within days of death while waiting for lifesaving organ and tissue transplants. Because of their strength, determination and resilience, they have not just survived, they have thrived. These survivors have courageously shared their stories as an affirmation of their resilience and recovery. Some of their many accomplishments include: returning to work as a captain of the San Francisco Fire Department; publishing award-winning content as an author and scholar; making breakthroughs in science; leading STEM initiatives as a senior executive for large corporations; engaging in humanitarian work and helping others; marrying the love of their life; relishing in the joys of childhood without the tethers of frequent hospitalizations; and living their lives.
Please consider the impact you could have by becoming a donor. These amazing people, along with my mother, are alive and thriving today because of someone’s incredible generosity.
The award-winning “Giving Me Life” campaign was created in partnership with Ayanna Anderson and Donor Network West in 2018.
--Katie Sugarman
*All proceeds will be donated to The East Oakland Collective
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Lordy Rodriguez
Lordy Rodriguez, Covid Dailys 4.12 1727, Ink on Paper, 18 x 18"
Lordy Rodriguez, Covid Dailys 2.6 1, Ink on Paper, 18 x 18"
Lordy Rodriguez, Covid Dailys, 3.15 15, Ink on Paper, 18 x 18"
So since the beginning of Covid in the us, I've been making these pieces that are attached. They are all 18" x 18". On the bottom of each drawing is the date and the daily total covid deaths for that day. The colors are chosen using a random number generator that randomizes the 355 inks that I use. Fyi, the February 6 grid counted a covid death that was found during an autopsy. The first official covid death was previously thought to be 2.28.
--Lordy Rodriguez
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--Lordy Rodriguez
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Patrick Dougher
Patrick Dougher, Incarcerated Kings, Collage/acrylic on paper, 11 x 14" $1000 ~SOLD~
Patrick Dougher, Incarcerated Kings II, collage/acrylic on paper, 11x14" $1,000
Patrick Dougher, Incarcerated Kings III, collage/acrylic, 11x14" $1,000
Patrick Dougher, Prayers for Brooklyn, acrylic/mixed media on wood, 12 x 17 x 24", $2000
Incarcerated Kings
Like so much of my work the “Incarcerated Kings” collage series is about calling attention to the divine and royal nature of people of color and in particular people who are often marginalized, disenfranchised and underappreciated in our society.
I worked as a teaching artist and program director of a community arts organization for many years. As part of that work I ran classes and programs in NYC juvenile detention centers and on the infamous Rikers Island prison. One of the groups I worked with identified themselves as “Latin Kings” a longtime powerful city gang. This is what first got me thinking about the idea that these young men that were locked up were often the alpha males of our community. The brightest, strongest and most charismatic. They were our “Kings”. Many if not most of these young men were locked up because of this fact. Because of the over policing of communities of color and the unjust laws that purposely target our young men. Our “Kings”.
Prayers for Brooklyn
This piece speaks to the rapid displacement/gentrification happening in traditionally black and brown neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Along with the displacement of people is the removal of culture which includes things like store front churches and the “white washing” of graffiti and RIP murals.
--Patrick Dougher
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Like so much of my work the “Incarcerated Kings” collage series is about calling attention to the divine and royal nature of people of color and in particular people who are often marginalized, disenfranchised and underappreciated in our society.
I worked as a teaching artist and program director of a community arts organization for many years. As part of that work I ran classes and programs in NYC juvenile detention centers and on the infamous Rikers Island prison. One of the groups I worked with identified themselves as “Latin Kings” a longtime powerful city gang. This is what first got me thinking about the idea that these young men that were locked up were often the alpha males of our community. The brightest, strongest and most charismatic. They were our “Kings”. Many if not most of these young men were locked up because of this fact. Because of the over policing of communities of color and the unjust laws that purposely target our young men. Our “Kings”.
Prayers for Brooklyn
This piece speaks to the rapid displacement/gentrification happening in traditionally black and brown neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Along with the displacement of people is the removal of culture which includes things like store front churches and the “white washing” of graffiti and RIP murals.
--Patrick Dougher
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Leisel Whitlock
Leisel Whitlock, Josephine and her cowboy husband, 60 x 80", mixed media mounted on e-panel ~SOLD~
Josephine and her cowboy husband centers the story of a black woman in American Cowboy Mythology. Historians overlook the complexities of our intertwined histories, and the significant role women like her played in the colonization of the western American frontier. They lived lives filled with joy as well as heartache. They were extraordinary in their ability to recover what was repeatedly stolen and by Being moved a nation closer to liberation. Their experience is an American experience. However, their existence was, for the most part, unworthy of documentation, and their full contribution to the making of the United States of America and American mythology ignored. This piece is the first in a series that explores their underappreciated stories of hope, resilience, and success. Though the African presence in the Americas predates the founding of the United States by centuries, this body of work focuses on the presence of African diasporic people in the American Frontier in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
--Leisel Whitlock
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--Leisel Whitlock
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Kay Hickman
Kay Hickman,
Black History is Now: BLM March in Brooklyn 2020,
photography
16 x 20in print $375 | 22.5 x 30.5in framed $475
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Al Johnson
Al Johnson,
Born On The Front Line,
15.5" x 15.5" mixed media
on masonite ( unframed)
Al Johnson,Taken a Blue Pill
16"x16" mixed media, on masonite
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Malik Seneferu
Malik Seneferu, Baba, mixed media, 9" x 21" $500 ~SOLD~
Malik Seneferu, Ikon Baki, mixed media, 14 1/2" x 11 1/2" $600
Malik Seneferu, The Opening, mixed media,
19" x 61" $20,000
Malik Seneferu, Soul Memorial,
mix medium assemblage,
3.5d" x 10.5"w x 12.25"h $400
Mobile Shrines
The idea of a mobile shine confronts the question; How would we be able to organically create and keep soulful moments relevant without the need for the digital internet grid. How can we create substances for an Organic Mobile Technology which brings sustainable growth to the green footprint.
My painted wooden Door works are inspired by my childhood knack for building small club houses from discarded wood I would find throughout Hunters Point HUD housing developments. In this endeavor I was awakened when I began experimenting with pieces of driftwood that came from the Pacific Ocean. Found objects have been a very important element in these poetic doors I make as a way of claiming and protecting my creative voice in this work. I have been lucky to find pieces from old vacant ran down and renovated houses as well as mirrors, masks, jars and bullets found from the war-torn reality from which I grew up.
--Malik Seneferu
The idea of a mobile shine confronts the question; How would we be able to organically create and keep soulful moments relevant without the need for the digital internet grid. How can we create substances for an Organic Mobile Technology which brings sustainable growth to the green footprint.
My painted wooden Door works are inspired by my childhood knack for building small club houses from discarded wood I would find throughout Hunters Point HUD housing developments. In this endeavor I was awakened when I began experimenting with pieces of driftwood that came from the Pacific Ocean. Found objects have been a very important element in these poetic doors I make as a way of claiming and protecting my creative voice in this work. I have been lucky to find pieces from old vacant ran down and renovated houses as well as mirrors, masks, jars and bullets found from the war-torn reality from which I grew up.
--Malik Seneferu
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Alexandra Antoine
Alexandria Antoine, Souring Prince above Chanterelle Blooms, collage on paper
Alexandria Antoine, Propelling off chocolate chips, collage on Paper
Alexandria Antoine, Squash soup vision and chocolate adornment, collage on paper
Alexandria Antoine, Red Cabbage Headdress with a raspberry earring, collage on paper
In my current collage works I look at the relationship between black people and food. As a descendant of farmers from Léogâne, Haiti I’ve been thinking about the relationship we’ve had with the soil and producing bountiful harvests. In these current times where people are being impacted on a global level I am finding my way back to the land and cultivating ways to build sustainability within my own community.
My overall work is multidisciplinary in nature but connected through the themes of memory, language, line, color and portraiture. I reference my Haitian-American cultural upbringing and the memories of travel, community and storytelling. My painting style has a topographical nature with a boldness of color and emotion. Woven throughout my work are the underlying influences of symbols, colors and cultural practices found throughout the African/Caribbean diaspora.
--Alexandria Antoine
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
My overall work is multidisciplinary in nature but connected through the themes of memory, language, line, color and portraiture. I reference my Haitian-American cultural upbringing and the memories of travel, community and storytelling. My painting style has a topographical nature with a boldness of color and emotion. Woven throughout my work are the underlying influences of symbols, colors and cultural practices found throughout the African/Caribbean diaspora.
--Alexandria Antoine
For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
Oding Muata
Oding Muata, Injustice, acrylic on canvas, 24" x 36", $2200
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Amir Abdul - Shakur
Amir Abdul - Shakur, She said what she said..., 12 x 16"/16 x 20" photography $300
Amir Abdul - Shakur, Unity, 12 x 16"/16 x 20" photography $300
Amir Abdul - Shakur, We did it Oakland, 28 x 24 3/4", photography $650 ~SOLD~
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Alex Bershaw
Alex Bershaw, Covid Commute, photography, 8" x 10", $200 ~SOLD~
Alex Bershaw, I Can't Breathe, photography, 16" x 20", $400 ~SOLD~
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For sales inquiries, visit or contact Joyce Gordon Gallery (info@joycegordongallery.com)
A special message and performance from our opening reception with my co-curator and project partner, Tarisse Iriarte Medina and performer, Najee Omar.
TO SEE VIDEO, VISIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQAbZzZc0is
Tarisse Iriarte is an Art Advisor & consultant working in New York City and Puerto Rico. She is simply known as “Tee” in her beloved Brooklyn Community. In 2017 Tee founded Curated Concepts LLC, a New York-based Consulting Firm that provides an array of services from Art Sales, Art Curation, consulting & project management to full exhibition production. She is a proud Afro Puerto Rican working diligently on the global liberation of our people across the diaspora. Tee curates exhibits that profoundly contextualize the intersections of cultural arts and social justice.
Her show Healing Drum of the Sun, a solo exhibition with multimedia artist Patrick Dougher, discusses the resilient spirit of the Sacred Black body...inspired by the prolific writings of Claudia Rankine. Tee currently serves on several boards including Community Board 3 in Bedford Stuyvesant as the chair of the Arts & Culture Committee, La Tierra Studio Corp (San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Vision and Justice think tank in the Arts and Culture Department at Brooklyn Public Library, MA Series Arts Sacramento, California and as well as the Advisory board at ARTE (Art Resistance Through Education in NY) Tee is co-curating an exhibition in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the Brookland Exchange Project, while also curating a group exhibition in Baltimore entitled Mothersland: A Contemporary Homage to the Ancestral Memory alongside many prominent contemporary artists. Most recently Tee was awarded a Curatorial Artist in Residency at Estudio Abierto in Oaxaca, Mexico where she will conduct curatorial research documenting the lives of Afro Mexican women farmers. She was also selected for a Curator in Residence this summer at Mauser Foundation Ecohouse in Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
Over the past eight years, Tee has also spoken on a number of panels on the role of Arts & Justice at NYU and other prestigious Universities. She is committed to shifting paradigms that are rooted in arts & liberation. Her passion for Arts & Justice is an intrinsic part of her life and will continue to inform all the work she will do in the future.
Tarisse Iriarte is an Art Advisor & consultant working in New York City and Puerto Rico. She is simply known as “Tee” in her beloved Brooklyn Community. In 2017 Tee founded Curated Concepts LLC, a New York-based Consulting Firm that provides an array of services from Art Sales, Art Curation, consulting & project management to full exhibition production. She is a proud Afro Puerto Rican working diligently on the global liberation of our people across the diaspora. Tee curates exhibits that profoundly contextualize the intersections of cultural arts and social justice.
Her show Healing Drum of the Sun, a solo exhibition with multimedia artist Patrick Dougher, discusses the resilient spirit of the Sacred Black body...inspired by the prolific writings of Claudia Rankine. Tee currently serves on several boards including Community Board 3 in Bedford Stuyvesant as the chair of the Arts & Culture Committee, La Tierra Studio Corp (San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Vision and Justice think tank in the Arts and Culture Department at Brooklyn Public Library, MA Series Arts Sacramento, California and as well as the Advisory board at ARTE (Art Resistance Through Education in NY) Tee is co-curating an exhibition in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the Brookland Exchange Project, while also curating a group exhibition in Baltimore entitled Mothersland: A Contemporary Homage to the Ancestral Memory alongside many prominent contemporary artists. Most recently Tee was awarded a Curatorial Artist in Residency at Estudio Abierto in Oaxaca, Mexico where she will conduct curatorial research documenting the lives of Afro Mexican women farmers. She was also selected for a Curator in Residence this summer at Mauser Foundation Ecohouse in Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
Over the past eight years, Tee has also spoken on a number of panels on the role of Arts & Justice at NYU and other prestigious Universities. She is committed to shifting paradigms that are rooted in arts & liberation. Her passion for Arts & Justice is an intrinsic part of her life and will continue to inform all the work she will do in the future.
TO SEE "UREA" VIDEO BY NAJEE OMAR, VISIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PwUam0rf9o
Najee Omar is possessed. A Brooklyn-based writer, performer, and educator, Najee uses the arts to ignite intergenerational spaces of healing, activism, and community building. He is the recipient of fellowships from The Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Public Theater’s #BARS Workshop, and Poetry Incubator for Emerging Poets. Named a New York Times Visionary, his selected features include the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, Hi-ARTS, and colleges and universities across the United States.
Najee is the Founder, Executive Director of Spark House: an arts education organization dedicated to developing youth voice and promoting social/emotional well-being. In this role, he turns classrooms into stages by facilitating poetry and performance workshops for inner city and high need youth in schools and juvenile justice facilities across the country. In 2020, Najee was named Curator for 651 ARTS' The Neighborhood Project: a new initiative designed to foster community connections and propel Diasporic artists further in their careers with the support of their neighbors. Najee is currently Artist-in-Residence with BRIC & University Settlement's Intergenerational Community Arts Council. When he is not adulting, you can catch Najee trolling online at @najeeomar.
Najee Omar is possessed. A Brooklyn-based writer, performer, and educator, Najee uses the arts to ignite intergenerational spaces of healing, activism, and community building. He is the recipient of fellowships from The Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, The Public Theater’s #BARS Workshop, and Poetry Incubator for Emerging Poets. Named a New York Times Visionary, his selected features include the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, Hi-ARTS, and colleges and universities across the United States.
Najee is the Founder, Executive Director of Spark House: an arts education organization dedicated to developing youth voice and promoting social/emotional well-being. In this role, he turns classrooms into stages by facilitating poetry and performance workshops for inner city and high need youth in schools and juvenile justice facilities across the country. In 2020, Najee was named Curator for 651 ARTS' The Neighborhood Project: a new initiative designed to foster community connections and propel Diasporic artists further in their careers with the support of their neighbors. Najee is currently Artist-in-Residence with BRIC & University Settlement's Intergenerational Community Arts Council. When he is not adulting, you can catch Najee trolling online at @najeeomar.
My love for The Town is so real!
#BrooklandBaby - Najee
#BrooklandBaby - Najee
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