Part of curator Lolita Cros' Salon Series
http://www.lolitacros.com
Directed by: Myranda Mallenbaum
Tschabalala Self (b. 1990) combines painting, printmaking and assemblage to explore ideas surrounding the Black female body. Constructed with a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, her exaggerated depictions of bodies traverse a variety of artistic and craft traditions. She received her BA from Bard College and her MFA from Yale University and is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant. Her work has been included in solo and groups exhibitions at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, China; The New Museum, New York, NY and most recently the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, among others. She is currently an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and is part of a 3-person show this summer at MoMA PS1, New York, NY in collaboration with the Studio Museum.
Lolita Cros is an independent curator and dealer living and working in New York City. She is known for creating projects and exhibitions that combine work by both established and emerging artists. With each project she proposes an alternative venue that asks the viewer to revisit their expectations and look at the work through a new and unique lens. Cros has exhibited works in various spaces such as a Chinese restaurant, a rooftop and a truck to name a few. She has collaborated on various projects with world renowned artists such as Daniel Arsham, Jenny Holzer, Nancy Spero or Marilyn Minter amongst many others. In 2017, she founded The Salon at The Wing, a permanent exhibition in all of the club's spaces, featuring and selling the works of over 200 female identifying artists in New York, DC, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston with more to come.
