big ups

Big ups to Ayo Ngozi her work is part of an exhibit at DCAC opening Next Friday Nov. 10th

Twisted Roots
November 10 .. December 10
Curated by Tosha Grantham
Opening reception: Fri, Nov. 10, 7 .. 9pm
Curators talk: Sun, Dec. 10, 4 .. 5:30 pm

DCAC
2438 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC
Gallery hours: Wed. .. Sun. 2 -7 pm
www.dcartscenter.org

Featuring:
Sanford Biggers
S. Ross Browne
Caryl Burtner
Sonya Clark
Taliaferro Logan
Ayo Ngozi
Heide Trepanier

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Continuing with the ambitious multi-city project EXCHANGE, linking Baltimore, DC and Richmond for an exchange of artists and artwork, Washington Project for the Arts..Corcoran joins with District of Columbia Arts Center to present EXCHANGE: Richmond @ DC (Twisted Roots), curated by Tosha Grantham, Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

EXCHANGE: Richmond @ DC (Twisted Roots) engages the tangled web between history and the present through materials, perception, accumulation, and disintegration. The exhibition features painting, prints, photography, sculpture, video, and performance by seven artists..Sanford Biggers, S. Ross Browne, Caryl Burtner, Sonya Clark, Taliaferro Logan, Ayo Ngozi, and Heide Trepanier..with ties to Virginia while maintaining very active local, national, and international careers. It is a microcosm of Richmond..s vibrant, eclectic, and layered arts communities..academic, professional, and/or primarily self-taught.

Twisted Roots also embodies overlapping relationships among the artists and the three cities representing this little slice of East Coast in the uber-EXCHANGE exhibition project. Each is linked through blood, marriage, and/or exhibition history to DC, Baltimore, or both. Whether the unifying principle is concept, location, or experiences, together the artists and their work create an aesthetic conversation on consumption, spirituality, strength, and vulnerability through abstract and loaded references. They examine time and changing notions of self, beauty, and the relationship between real and imagined signifiers of struggle and the emergence of identity in contemporary life and art. Somewhere below what grows and what is cut away, the twisted roots remain just under the surface until they are addressed.

- Tosha Grantham, Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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ALSO


big up to Camille Mosley-Pasley and her show "Mama Love" Images and expressions celebrating the essence of maternal love opening at:
Touchstone

406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004
www.TouchstoneGallery.com
Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Friday 11-5, Saturday - Sunday 12-5 and by appointment Exhibition Dates: November 8 – December 3, 2006
Opening Reception: Friday, November 10, 6-8:30pm
Black Artists of DC Studio Visit: Tuesday, November 14, 12 noon
3rd Thursday Gallery Walk: November 16, 6-8pm

406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004
www.TouchstoneGallery.com
Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Friday 11-5, Saturday - Sunday 12-5 and by appointment

http://anacostiafineart.com/26.html

Camille Mosley-Pasley has operated Pasley Place Photography for more than ten years. During portrait sessions, she observed that first time mothers oftentimes expressed amazement at the magnitude of sensations they experienced. Mosley-Pasley felt it was important to preserve and share these expressions in book form. In May of 2005, she began inviting women of the African diaspora to be photographed in her studio as well as asking their thoughts on 'mama love.' Over 100 mothers from around the world have participated in the project, ranging from single teens to married professionals. Some are first time mothers, others have many children.

The book aspires to give the viewer a glimpse into this special bond between mothers and their children, acknowledging and honoring their important role in society. The women are not portrayed as Madonnas or mother goddesses to be idolized. They are fully human, expressing all the complexities of parenthood. Their words also provide us with personal anecdotes that are both heart felt and universal at the same time.

This pre publication exhibit features twenty limited edition images available individually and in portfolios of 5 or 10. Additional images will be available following publication in Spring of 2007.
Go to http://www.pasleyplace.com/MamaLove/ for preview images.