NAMING OUR TIME
Oct
27
to Jan 13

NAMING OUR TIME

In response to chaos, brokenness, and tragedy there is the tendency to seek out a single, vetted, solution, some fixed, grand method of order that one can count on to solve, fix, and make right. In a moment defined by the effects of climate change, global pandemics, historically charged race and class reckonings and so much more, it is crucial to examine how these tendencies toward self-preservation and belonging are further complicated when the tragedy and chaos many marginalized beings experience are, in fact, features of the socially constructed systems we engage in every day. These realities leave many of us asking: In the face of real and symbolic entropy, how do we call upon our individual wholeness? How do we find personal comfort, belonging, or even salvation? With these questions in mind, through a rigorous and thoughtful blending of image, labor, gathering, and storytelling, Naming Our Time is an integrated presentation between artists Tosha Stimage, Charlene Tan, Alexa Burrell, and Erina C. Alejo of the historical, sonic, material, and natural landscapes through which we navigate meaning, material, identity, and kinship.

Curated by Qianjin Montoya

Naming Our Time will be on view from Saturday, October 27, 2023 - Saturday, January 13, 2024.

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OF OTHER SPACES
Jan
19
to Feb 12

OF OTHER SPACES

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Of Other Spaces, is an exhibition by The Black Infinity Collective and composed of work by artists of color, taking  it's conceptual cues from from Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias by philosopher Michel Foucault. In this writing, Foucault makes a detailed critique of societal structures, social norms, and our relationship to space, while proposing the possibility for a new set of relationships. The artists in the show use a range of imagery and language to answer or question the ways in which we inhabit our realities. Of Other Spaces is driven by imagining new modes of belonging in diversely populated environments, where space can potentially unfold perpetually. This show is a prequel to the Black Infinity's forthcoming summer exhibition "Pull-Up" exploring; gentrification, diaspora, and immigration.

SHOW DATES: January 19 -February 12, 2019

ARTIST TALK: January  25, 2019 7pm

ARTISTS:

Jay Katelansky // Yetunde Olagbaju // Luke Sirimongknon

Ebitenyefa Baralaye // Luis Pinto // Lashae Boyd

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Jan
12
to Feb 10

EXOTIFY ELSEWHERE//SWIM GALLERY // SAN, FRANCISCO CA.

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The artists in Exotify Elsewhere oppose the binds of historic fetishization on femme bodies and cultures not rooted in whiteness. Constantly enduring these conditions has equipped us with the tools of resistance and resilience necessary to preserve our safety and autonomy. We employ these tactics to claim space in the art world where we feel our voice has typically been forgotten and therefore silenced. Elsewhere emphasizes that we are taking the power to say, "you will not exploit me in that way, not here, not on my body".

By defining ourselves for ourselves we rise from the oppressive limitations of the male gaze and the violent exclusion of white-washed womanhood. This show serves as a platform for woe to freely question and combat these conditions and works toward a liberated woman of color whose struggles are seriously considered in the fight for social, sexual and economic justice

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WORKSHOP: BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC ARCHIVE // Decolonize the Imagination: Future Landscapes with Tosha Stimage
Jan
5
6:00 PM18:00

WORKSHOP: BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC ARCHIVE // Decolonize the Imagination: Future Landscapes with Tosha Stimage

Decolonize the Imagination: Future Landscapes with Tosha Stimage

Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Do you ever imagine that the world could be radically different for generations to come? Future Landscapes is a practical community exercise engaging difficult social problems through dialogue and art. Interdisciplinary artist Tosha Stimage leads a collage and weaving workshop that focuses on imagining the reconstruction of historical, social, and geographic inequity.

Tosha Stimage’s work focuses on the structural nature of language and its relation to black identity, employing coded messages to investigate the societal constructs of race and violence. Stimage earned a BFA from CCAD and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She is a recipient of the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, the Murphy & Cadogan Award, and residencies at Real Time and Space and Facebook; she is currently an AICAD teaching fellow.

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FROM MY BODY
Dec
15
to Jan 12

FROM MY BODY

Curated by Francis Calimlim & Dara Katrina Del Rosario

From My Body is a multidisciplinary exhibition that showcases the multiple releases of bodies’ subjectivities that describe the navigation, resistance and dialogue with external forces that counter each of these artists’ lived experiences. The structures of power that impact the stories and memories we experience and inherit are put in conversation with the what can be passed on to following generations. Beyond simply affect, activation must be inspired in order to move toward revolutionary futurity - the belief that in order for social transformation occur, we must first transcend the self.

Educator and philosopher Paulo Freire used Revolutionary Futurity to express the threat of immobility while addressing the importance learning from the past to inform the ways to build our future. As artists living in a political climate that continues to be hostile and violent to historically oppressed communities and bodies, how do we use our creative practices to move toward social transformation?

MORE INFO HERE

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Nov
15
6:00 PM18:00

WEXNER CENTER VISITING FACULTY LECTURE

Tosha Stimage, Visiting Faculty, Fine Arts, Columbus College of Art & Design, will speak on Thursday, November. 15 at 6 PM in conjunction with solo exhibition by artist Mickalene Thomas.

September 13–December 30, 2018, the Wexner Center for the Arts will present Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me, a major solo exhibition that will fill every gallery in the Wexner Center’s multidisciplinary art space with nearly 30 paintings, videos, and immersive installations.

This exhibition will look at the expansive body of work Mickalene Thomas has produced between 2005 and 2018. Focusing primarily on the artist’s grandly scaled and opulent paintings, it will explore the intricacies of her visual dialogue with art history, identity, desire, power, authorship, and the historically fraught relationship between artist and subject.

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CINCINNATI ART BOOK FAIR 2018
Aug
3
6:30 PM18:30

CINCINNATI ART BOOK FAIR 2018

Join The Black Infinity and other rad vendors for the 2018 edition of the Cincinnati Art Book Fair! The fair will feature work from independent publishers & collections, as well as panel discussions and satellite programming.

This year's fair will feature artist and panel talks on August 10 and 11 at 7:30PM at 21c Museum Hotel in Downtown Cincinnati. The main fair will take place during the afternoons of August 11–12 at the Carnegie in Covington.

The Cincinnati Art Book Fair is FREE and open to the public.

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Jun
9
to Jun 18

THE A AND OP POSITION to NATION

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There is a fascinating negotiation of historical and present black existence and it’s mediation thru symbols. Christina Sharpe’s In the wake: On blackness and being, describes blackness as ‘irresolvable abjection’, and suggests that we navigate this space of blackness and death not by trying to define them but rather to live being cognizant.

This show grapples with themes of death, violence, color, nation, and citizenship in a suggestive manner. These objects give voice to a collective social reality, question the shared relationship to space, and reveal the problematic breakdown in their attempts to coexist.

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Dec
2
to Dec 29

THE BLACK INFINITY LAUNCH/EXHIBITION

The Black Infinity Presents:The Black Infinity, The Beginning of Never EndingOpening Reception: Saturday, December 2, 7-11pmExhibition Dates: December 2-29, 2017Closing Reception: Saturday, December 23, 7-11pmLukaza Branfman- Verissimo, Tyler Davis,…

The Black Infinity Presents:
The Black Infinity, The Beginning of Never Ending
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 2, 7-11pm
Exhibition Dates: December 2-29, 2017
Closing Reception: Saturday, December 23, 7-11pm


Lukaza Branfman- Verissimo, Tyler Davis, Sara Emsaki, Cameron Granger, Maria Guzman Capron, Dionne Lee, Carolina Magis-Weinberg, Christopher Martin, Marcela Pardo Ariza and Aya Zemrani,  Curated by Tosha Stimage


The Beginning of Never Ending, is a group show featuring works ranging in theme and medium highlighting the diverse narratives of emerging local and international artists of color.


From the large scale mixed media paintings of Columbus College of art and design BFA ‘18 candidate Tyler Davis, to the text and color based installations of Mexican artist Carolina Magis-Weinberg, the ever powerful and gripping questions of history, space, and identity are the undercurrent of the exhibition.
As a collective, The Black Infinity exists to support the materialization of marginal perspectives and art practices. We provide funding, exhibition opportunities, an online marketing platform, and professional development opportunities all free and open to the public. This exhibition is curated by CCAD Alumni and AICAD Post Grad Teaching Fellow, Tosha Stimage.

Please join us for the opening reception on December 2, 2017 from 7-11pm. Works will be on view from December 2- 23, Contact Gallery for additional hours.


PRESS CONTACT:
Tosha Stimage
Founder of The Black Infinity
theblackinfinityinfo@gmail.com


NoPlace Gallery
1164 S. Front Street
Columbus, OH 43206
theblackinfinity.com
@the_blackinfinity

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Nov
11
to Dec 9

THESE ARE NOT ISOLATED EVENTS

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JONESES

Woven 50" x 60" 2017

These are not isolated events.
Tosha Stimage

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 11th, 2017, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Exhibition Dates: November 11th – December 9th, 2017

"The orange. It is held together by skin.
But hold it firm, drive your thumb into the flesh, pierce and peel.
It is a series of segmented containers.
Past the violent intrusion you'll find,
that there is a relationship between segments.
Showing that each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves."
This is a show of attraction, images supporting other images in a sometimes
seemingly contradictory manner.

The Free Radicals: The Rise and Fall of the October 4th Movement or Every Hero Needs A Horn
Section 1793-1795.
Umar Rashid

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Aug
1
to Nov 14

COLOR FACTORY

Color Factory: A Pop-Up Experience in San Francisco. This two-story interactive exhibition celebrates color and material, featuring work by some of our favorite artists and collaborators: Jacob Dahlgren, Tom Stayte, Geronimo Balloons, Tosha Stimage, Stanton Jones, Andrew Neyer & Andy J. Miller, Carissa Potter, Jessica Hische, Rebecca Wright, Randi Brookman Harris, Leah Rosenberg and Erin Jang.

Lose yourself in 10,000 colored ribbons, sink into a giant yellow ball pit, catch some rainbows, smell colorful memories, and taste a spectrum of treats from our favorite stops in San Francisco. The pinks will delight you, the blues will amaze you, the yellows might make you hungry.
Put on your favorite hue and come to us for color!
Color Factory opens August 2017 and runs thru September 30th 2017.

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May
12
7:00 PM19:00

RELAY

FEATURING SOPHIE LOURDES KNIGHT. SASHA KELLY. HANNAH PERRINE MODE. NANCY SAYAVONG. MARIA GUZMAN CAPRON. TOSHA STIMAGE. SARAH THIEBALT. LAURA ROKAS. RACHEL STALLINGS. MEGAN REED. MARYAM YOUSIF. LUKAZA BRAFMAN-VERISSIMO. SIDNEY RUSSELL. JACQUELINE SHERLOCK NORHEIM

CTRL + SHFT. 1430 34th St, Oakland, CA 94608.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 12th, 6-9pm

Gallery Hours: Saturdays + Sundays, May 12th-June 3rd, 12-6pm, or by appointment

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Feb
25
to Mar 18

Not Alone: Exploring Bonds Between and With Members of the Armed Forces

 

Image credit: Jessica Hines, from the series My Brother's War

Exhibition Dates: November 9, 2016 - March 4, 2017
Exhibition Location: SFAC Main Gallery
401 Van Ness Avenue (War Memorial Veterans Building)
San Francisco, CA 94102
Artists' Reception: Friday, November 18, 6 - 8 p.m.
Free and open to the public

Not Alone: Exploring Bonds Between and With Members of the Armed Forces is an expansive exhibition featuring works by local and national artists and veteran artists that have been engaged with the subject matter of individuals supporting active-duty personnel and/or veterans over long periods of time.

The artists in Not Alone engage in building narratives about and with members of the Armed Forces and their families through media including photography, drawings, prints, sculpture, audio works, installations and 360 video. Their works offer perspectives on a variety of topics including veteran support networks, the experience of spouses and children of US military personnel and how veterans examine their own identity and personal relationships. The artwork in the exhibition highlights the family members, veterans and artists that actively seek out opportunities to connect and support their loved ones, friends and strangers (including everyone who is impacted by seeing this exhibition).

Not Alone is curated by SFAC Galleries Director Meg Shiffler and artist, curator and journalist Jason Hanasik.

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Feb
11
to Mar 4

DREAD SCOTT. PAST PRESENT FUTURE.

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11th, 2017, 5:00pm – 9:00pm

Exhibition Dates: February 11th – March 5th, 2017

“Past, Present, Future”, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist and activist Dread Scott.

The exhibition will open Saturday February 11th at 5pm and will feature an artist talk within the first hour, followed by a panel discussion at 7pm featuring Ana Teresa Fernandez, Patrick Martinez, Michele Pred, Matt Gonzalez and Nicole Archer, interrogating the intersections of art, aesthetics and politics.

We welcome you to join us for an evening of solidarity, in discussing and contemplating the role of the arts and artists within an oppressive and unstable political climate, and as a means of reflecting and recharging for what lies ahead.

**In addition to Dread Scott’s “Past, Present, Future” on the gallery’s ground floor, we’re excited to announce that we will be activating the second floor as a project space, adding a new dimension to the scope of what we’re able to accomplish through Guerrero Gallery.

The project space will hold a group exhibition featuring Tosha Stimage, Woody Othello, Chris R. Martin, Carolyn Jean Martin and Andrew Wilson. Much like the work of Dread Scott, the work of these five artistsFunction as a visceral collection of materially diverse meditations on the costs of empire, erasure and the reverberations of marginalized histories.

1465 CUSTER AVE SF CA 94124 * WWW.GUERREROGALLERY.COM *415.400.5168

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