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New York, NY | Guided Tour of “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” at the New Museum
May 13, 2023 | 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Join ArtTable at The New Museum for a tour of a major solo exhibition of the work of Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi), bringing together over one-hundred works from across her twenty-five-year career. The tour will be led by New Museum teaching artist, Yasmeen Abdalla.
ArtTable had the chance to interview Mutu in 2014 in partnership with artnet. This tour brings us full circle to see the significant development and accomplishment in her career since that time.
Representing the full breadth of Mutu’s practice, the presentation will encompass painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, film, and performance. Mutu first gained acclaim for her collage-based practice exploring camouflage, transformation, and mutation. She extends these strategies to her work across various media, developing hybrid, fantastical forms that fuse mythical and folkloric narratives with layered sociohistorical references. “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” will trace connections between recent developments in the artist’s sculptural practice and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. At once culturally specific and transnational in scope, Mutu’s work grapples with contemporary realities, while proffering new models for a radically changed future informed by feminism, Afrofuturism, and interspecies symbiosis.This exhibition is curated by Margot Norton, Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator, and Vivian Crockett, Curator, with Ian Wallace, Curatorial Assistant.
See the New Museum website for full funding acknowledgements for the exhibition.
Admission:
- ArtTable Members – $20
- Member Guests – $30
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This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Image: Wangechi Mutu, “In Two Canoe” (2022). “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined,” 2023. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni
About the Teaching Artist:
Yasmeen Abdallah is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, incorporating civic engagement through creative reuse as a central point in her practice. She is interested in ephemera; aftermaths; and the stories told, and secrets kept by imprints and objects that speak to our contemporary culture. She holds an MFA in Fine Arts with distinction from Pratt Institute, and Bachelor’s degrees from University of Massachusetts, Boston in Studio Art with honors, and in Anthropology (emphasis in Historical & Collaborative Archaeology, including field schools with Hassanamesit Woods and the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation); with a Minor in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies.
She has been a visiting artist and speaker at institutions including Columbia University Teaching College; El Barrio Art Space, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Parsons School for Design; Pratt Institute; Sarah Lawrence College; and University of Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Art in Odd Places; the Boiler; Bronx Art Space; Bullet Space; Chashama; Cornell University; Ed Varie; Elizabeth Foundation; La Bodega; Open Source; Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space; Nars Foundation; PS122 Gallery; and Spring Break Art Show.
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