NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announces the acquisition of Crocodylus, a sculpture by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi
Gladstone Gallery opens an exhibition of new sculptures by Wangechi Mutu
Installation view, Wangechi Mutu, at Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new sculptures by Wangechi Mutu, and the East Coast premiere of two bronze works: Crocodylus and MamaRay. Drawing upon her sculptural practice, a core aspect of her work, this installation brings to life otherworldly alternatives to the systemic modes of representation portrayed throughout global traditions in art. Through an incisive re-examination of relations between the body, the natural world, and social forces, the works in this exhibition represent a new kind of hybridized humanity and iconography through the artists intuitive and forward-thinking eye.
Response to colonialism takes over the Legion of Honor
Wangechi Mutu, Shavasana II, 2019. Bronze, 84 x 59 x 10 in. Edition of 3. Courtesy of the Artist and Gladstone Gallery. Image provided courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.-The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco opened Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?, a sprawling, site-specific exhibition of new and recently created sculpture, collage, and film by visionary Kenyan American artist Wangechi Mutu. Staked out from the Court of Honor through the entire first floor of the museum, the artist s alternate universe of powerful female characters, hybrid beings, and fantastical landscapes, challenges traditional art histories, mythologies, and conventional techniques of archiving and remembering. Part of the Museums contemporary art program and three years in the making, I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? responds to the permanent collection and neoclassical architecture of the Legio