Wallspace
619 W 27th St
212.594.9478
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Donelle Woolford, Still Life with Logotype, Courtesy Wallspace Gallery
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Jan 10, 2008 – Feb 16, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Note: There's an opening reception Thur Jan 10 (6-8pm).
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.
