Radio Juxtapoz, ep 067: Khari Turner Knows How to Fall
March 08, 2021 | in Painting
There are those moments in an interview where you know as soon as the subject has said something profound that it will become the centerpiece of their spotlight. In our conversation with Milwaukee-born, NYC-based painter Khari Turner, the Radio Juxtapoz team kept finding so many incredible words, messages, thoughts on art and life with Turner that it s almost impossible to give you one simple summary. He s a throwback in a lot of ways, but a fresh face on the contemporary art scene. His earliest influences were from his grandfather, who turned an art degree into a trade with his skill, and that allowed Khari to see that art could be an option as a career; just perhaps not fine art.
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Destinee Ross-Sutton has launched the U.S. premiere of her Black Voices exhibition series this month in a SoHo gallery as well as virtually.
Featuring 35 international artists, the show, “Black Voices: Friend of My Mind,” is appearing on Wooster Street in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood in a space formerly occupied by the Paula Cooper Gallery through Jan. 8, and on VorticXR’s digital platform through early March.
The exhibition is the second edition of a series Ross-Sutton first curated at CFHill Art Space in Stockholm, Sweden, in April titled “Black Voices/Black Microcosm” and features artists from that show as well as a selling exhibition at Christie’s in July titled “Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud).”
Curatorial Dynamo Destinee Ross-Sutton Just Opened a New Project Space Dedicated to Black Art in SoHo No Flippers Allowed
A contract she first developed for Christie s is in place for all sales.
Destinee Ross-Sutton. Image courtesy Destinee Ross-Sutton
Destinee Ross-Sutton made headlines over the summer when she organized a nearly sold-out online exhibition for Christie’s titled “Say It Loud (I’m Black and Proud).” It came with a twist: every collector who bought work from the show had to sign a contract pledging not to flip the work.
Now, Ross-Sutton, a 25-year-old artist advocate, advisor, curator, and gallerist, has brought that same energy and the same protective measures for artists to a gallery of her own. Ross-Sutton Gallery’s inaugural show, “Black Voices: Friend of My Mind,” opened on December 19 at 155 Wooster Street in SoHo, the 8,000-square-foot former home of iconic gallerist Paula Cooper. The exhibition marks the first iteration of what Ross-Sutton d