For the month of August, Long Gallery Harlem is showing A House Is Not a Home, co-curated by Jade Flint and Taylor Thomas. The exhibition showcases 25 Black women artists whose work traces 250 years of American history.
The use of a home vs. a conventional gallery highlights the culture of the Vineyard through the lens of Black visual art. The show asserts that the home we call America would not be what we know it to be without the physical and emotional labor of the Black Woman.
Highlights include Mickalene Thomas’ You’re Gonna Give Me the Love I Need, a mixed-media piece using handmade paper, cloth, digital print, and glitter, celebrating Black female beauty and power. Other landmark works include Renee Cox’s The Signing, a monumental reworking of America’s founding moment, and an archival work combining Lois Mailou Jones’ prints and poems by L.S. Senghor. Altogether, these works bring together the spirit of Blackness and Black identity on the vineyard.
The exhibition is being shown inside a residential cottage at 139 Wing Road, Oak Bluffs. Open 10 am EST- 4 pm EST.
