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Art

Donelle Woolford

When

Jan 10, 2008 – Feb 16, 2008

Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)

Where

Wallspace

619 W 27th St

212.594.9478

Price

Free

Links

Note: There's an opening reception Thur Jan 10 (6-8pm).

Wallspace says…

Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps. At Wallspace Gallery, Woolford commemorates the 100th anniversary of cubism's Parisian debut by confronting Picasso and Braque's colonialist primitivism, reclaiming the African heritage of their most famous paintings. But the plot thickens: "Donelle Woolford" is a fictional character invented by mercurial artist Joe Scanlan. Acknowledging the suspect (and potentially offensive) idea of a white, male artist dreaming up an African-American, female alter-ego, Scanlan's project is as political as it is personal. In a meritocratic system, it's supposed to be the exchange of ideas that matters — not who's making them.