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Gagosian Announces Series of Solo Exhibitions Organized by Antwaun SargentFeaturing New Works by #awolerizku, #alexandriasmith, and Amanda WilliamsPresented at Park & 75 in New York from March to July 2022
NEW YORK, January 21, 2022—Gagosian is pleased to announce a series of three solo exhibitions organized by director Antwaun Sargent to be held this spring and early summer at the gallery's Park & 75 location in New York. The four-month program will include individual presentations featuring new works by #awolerizku, #alexandriasmith, and Amanda Williams, marking the first dedicated exhibition for each artist at Gagosian, and the first solo presentation at any gallery in New York for Williams.
The series follows Sargent's curatorial debut at the gallery with Social Works in New York and Social Works II in London. Sargent commented: "I'm excited to present exhibitions by Awol, Alexandria, and Amanda at Park & 75. Their distinct and fresh practices align with the gallery's commitment to present artists who push beyond established boundaries in painting, sculpture, and photography."
Opening on March 10, 2022, the series of three five-week exhibitions will begin with #awolerizku. The presentation, Memories of a Lost Sphinx, will offer a constellation of contemporary images that explore the conceptual framework of the sphinx as a hybrid, cross-cultural symbol that embodies riddles, wisdom, divinity, thresholds, and the transition between life and death.
In late April and into early June, the work of Alexandria Smith—who was included in both Social Works and Social Works II in 2021—will be featured. Smith's presentation, Pretend Gravitas and Dream Aborted Givens, will continue her investigation into a constant reevaluation of selfhood and the confidences, contradictions, and uncertainties of the Black femme body through allegorical assemblage paintings and collage drawings.
For the final exhibition, opening in June, artist and architect Amanda Williams will exhibit new works from What black is this, you say?, a series of poignant oil and watercolor paintings produced as an identity-affirming response to the recent tumultuous racial events in the United States. The presentation will reference and build upon her painting Candy Lady (2021), a work that was included in Social Works II, which considered the relationship between space—personal, public, institutional, and psychic—and Black social practice.
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