She acts as steward, guiding artists careers to fruition and encouraging them to take control of their markets. She is also making a name for herself as being a curator that discovers new talents and starting artist’s international careers. cat., Black Voices/Black Microcosm, 8 April - ). In her eyes, “showing a wide range of opinions, voices, and countless expressions of beauty is essential in a world where compassion and connection is needed now more than ever” (D. Ross-Sutton has repeatedly demonstrated her ability to unify diverse subjects and styles within her curatorial projects. With a focus on African and African American art and a commitment to cohesive storytelling, Ms. Independently, she advises several private institutions and international collectors with an emphasis on responsible acquisitions of contemporary art. The inaugural show, ‘BLACK VOICES: Friend of My Mind’, is the largest exhibition of emerging and contemporary artists from the African Diaspora ever staged in the United States. To expand her curatorial efforts, Ross-Sutton opened a namesake gallery in Soho, New York in December 2020. Just as national BLM protests sparked an outcry internationally in May 2020 - Black Voices Stockholm launched in April of 2020 - which inspired many exhibitions helping to expand the conversation and commitment to Contemporary Black Art. A gathering of voices - both young and emerging, as well as mid-career artists from the African diaspora this was the only physical exhibition to be held at the beginning of the global lockdown. Ross-Sutton first made a name for herself with her groundbreaking exhibition concept appropriately titled, ‘BLACK VOICES’. Ross-Sutton has curated and co-curated successful international group exhibitions at such renowned institutions as CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and now two years in a row the much publicized and highly successful “Say it Loud” selling exhibitions benefitting the artists at world renown auction house Christie’s in NY which broke major records in 2021 totaling $940k in sales. Nobles’ recently completed the artist-in-residence program at Field Projects Gallery (2021-22), Pink Noise Projects (2021), and Trestle Art Space (2020).ĭestinee Ross-Sutton is an International Curator, Artist Advocate, Art Advisor, and Gallerist. Her work is featured in Hyperallergic (2022) and Smack Mellon’s Hot Picks (2022). Select past group shows include Latchkey Gallery (2022), Cindy Rucker Gallery (2022), Field Projects Gallery (2021-22), The Real House (2021), Pink Noise Projects (2021), LoBo Gallery (2020), Trestle Gallery (2020), Practice Gallery (2019) and Westbeth Gallery (2017), among others. Select 2022 upcoming and current group shows include Lump, Border Project Space, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Peep Space, and Conn College. While the use of texture suggests passing a fetus, birth, and the magnificence of our bodies to support us in all its changes.Īs I Sit Waiting is a fiscally sponsored project by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Specific colors reference the energy of each subject. Some works repurpose a left-behind high chair or bassinet, others are constructed independently. Nobles’ work utilizes materiality to convey memory, the body, and reproductive histories. The sculptures in this series are visceral and communicate the complexity of emotions that are often denied to pregnant people are forced to suppress due to shame, stigma and abortion bans. Each sculpture conveys the act of sitting and is installed to reflect a waiting room chair at an abortion clinic. In her ongoing series, As I Sit Waiting, she collects video narratives of people’s experiences with abortion access and creates sculptures in honor of their stories. Her practice engages identity and storytelling as advocacy by extending subjectivity within abstraction. Lydia Nobles (b.1993) is a New York based conceptual artist critiquing societal constructs that affect gender. The viewer is asked to connect with the person and their story at an individual and human level, removing theoretical ideals and forcing us to see how one’s everyday life is completely altered by their choices. The result is a captivating and visceral look into the current national and global fight for privacy, and reproductive freedoms, that departs from the impersonal approach that the current political climate adapts. Each video is accompanied by a sculpture created in honor of each person and their story. The show presents video documentation of various individuals’ experiences with abortion access- or lack therof. New York- Ross-Sutton Gallery is proud to present As I Sit Waiting by Lydia Nobles, a New York based conceptual artist.
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