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Frieze New York
New and historical works by Senga Nengudi will be the focus of a solo artist booth at Frieze New York, organized and curated in collaboration with Thomas Erben Gallery and Sprüth Magers. The booth will honor the legendary Just Above Midtown (JAM) gallery, which Linda Goode Bryant opened in 1974. JAM proved itself an early incubator for contemporary African American artists, who were at that time drastically underrepresented in the New York art world. The gallery hosted Nengudi’s first solo exhibition in 1977, incorporating her into a program that included such pathbreaking artists as David Hammons, Lorna Simpson, and Maren Hassinger, among many others.
Lévy Gorvy’s Frieze New York booth will present a selection of work from Nengudi's A.C.Q. (III) (2016–17) series that she completed for the 2017 Venice Biennale, as well as debuting a new work by the artist. In Close (2019) combines her signature nylon mesh pantyhose with a solid wood support and other flexible materials, advancing the artist’s inventive approach to bodily representation and further developing her exploration of the symbolic potential inherent to common materials.
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