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The ADA \ contemporary art gallery in Ghana specializes in spotlighting the works of emerging artists across Africa and its diaspora. The gallery is currently presenting an exhibition of new paintings by the South African emerging female artist Zandile Tshabalala. Entitled “Enter Paradise,” the presentation features a selection of new figurative self-portraits as the artist continues to explore the representation of the Black female figure in her studio practice.
More precisely, the nude portraits examine the varying portrayals of Black women while challenging existing representations with the artist offering more raw, intimate and deeply personal views through her bold pieces that feature vibrant colors and luxurious animal print patterns. Tshabalala’s depictions of Black women are confident, steady and desirable in contrast to the overarching “inferior” observations deeply rooted within societal constructs and history.
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Angela Dufresne, installation view at Yossi Milo
Contributed by Andrew Woolbright / Angela Dufresne’s dual shows at Yossi Milo Gallery and M+B Los Angeles provide an opportunity to assess the full breadth of this influential figurative painter’s practice. The two shows, opened in tandem, nearly emptied her studio. The exhibits pose new paths forward from John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage’s discourse on figural strategies, while embodying challenges to normative conventions of authorship and new approaches to the queer and post-humanist philosophies of Jack Halberstam and others, championing difference and community over the canon’s tired obsession with the individual.