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To Learn the Dark
February 15 - April 1, 2023
Gallery Talk & Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 15 at 4pm
OCHI Aux, 3301 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
OCHI is pleased to present To Learn The Dark, an exhibition of new work by artist Adrienne Elise Tarver. This is the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery. To Learn The Dark will be on view at OCHI Aux, located at 3305 W Washington Blvd in Los Angeles, California from February 15 through April 1, 2023. The exhibition will open with a Public Gallery Talk in conjunction with Frieze Los Angeles titled, Speaking Dark: Adrienne Elise Tarver and Essence Harden in Conversation, to take place on Wednesday, February 15th from 4:00 to 6:00 PM PST (RSVP to hello@ochiprojects.com), followed by an Opening Reception from 6:00 to 8:00 PM PST.
To Learn The Dark features new tapestries, large-scale collage works, and a video installation that build on Tarver’s interest into the multitudinous nature and invisibility of Black women, these artworks consider darkness as space, identity, and a tool to embrace the possibilities of freedom, joy, and growth. To Learn The Dark references bell hook’s Belonging: A Culture of Place (1990). Part autobiography, part critical theory, hooks charts a non-linear course towards a fully realized sense of place, which she calls “darkness:”
“Daddy Jerry always tried to get his grandchildren to come out in the pitch dark ‘to learn the dark’—to learn its comforts and solace. We can do that and learn to be comfortable in the darkness and beauty of our skin. No one can take that spirit of belonging away.”
Pratt Fine Art Faculty Exhibition
Curated by Kyle Staver
Opening Reception: Mon, Jan 23, 5-7 PM
On view: Jan 17 - Feb 25, 2023
The Department of Exhibitions presents the Fine Arts Faculty/Staff Exhibition: Part Two, featuring work from 35 faculty and staff members from the Fine Arts Department, Pratt Institute.
Nancy Graves Foundation Grant Recipient
The Nancy Graves Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists.
This year’s grantees include Abigail DeVille, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Adrienne Elise Tarver, and Shoshanna Weinberger. Initially nominated by artists and arts professionals from across the country, a second panel of jurors selected four grantees to receive unrestricted funds to work in a technique, medium, or discipline that is different from the one for which they are primarily recognized.
I have been invited by curator Camila Maissune to spend time in residency in the Azores this July; an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal.