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THE SUN, THE MOON, & THE TRUTH
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main St, Ridgefield, Connecticut
September 8, 2021 - January 2, 2022
Tarver debuts Manifesting Paradise (2020-ongoing), a suite of twenty-two mixed media works on paper based on the Major Arcana (major mysteries), the foundational card set of the centuries-old tarot deck, alongside Weary As I Can Be (2021)…
Contributing to an archive of artists’ translations of tarot—Leonora Carrington’s Major Arcana paintings (c. 1955); Betye Saar’s House of Tarot (1966); Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden (1979-2002)—Tarver continues a legacy preserved by a history of seekers. Each “card” illustrates the artist’s interpretations of the allegorical symbols of the Major Arcana—the Magician, the High Priestess, and the Hierophant, to name a few… In reimagining the visual emblems associated with directing one’s life, Tarver denotes power and agency to a cast of Black subjects whose prompts may alter the course of tomorrow.
UNDERFOOT
Atlanta Contemporary
535 Means Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia
September 18, 2021 – January 9, 2022
Tarver’s exhibition, Underfoot, stems from her interest in origin stories and where we come from. Her own beginning’s, like so many other Black American’s, is unclear. And yet, despite how the Western idea of landscape can separate us from the land, we continuously seek and feel connection to place.
A place holds history beneath the ground. We can change the surface, but the language of the roots remains.
THE ARMORY SHOW
Javits Center, 429 11th Avenue, New York, NY
September 9 - 12, 2021
Welancora Gallery will feature a dual-artist presentation of large scale, bronze, relief sculpture from the late 1970s by Helen Evans Ramsaran and new embroidery and woven textile work by Adrienne Elise Tarver in booth F22.
The Focus section of the Armory Show is dedicated to solo and dual artist presentations of today’s most relevant and compelling artworks and is curated by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Chief Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, .
The VIP preview is September 9, and the fair opens to the public on September 10-12. Visit thearmoryshow.com to purchase tickets.