Spring 2024 Update

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Where the Waters Go

Dinner Gallery, 242 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011

May 16 - June 19, 2024

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 16th, 6-8pm

Dinner Gallery is proud to present “Where the Waters Go,” an exhibition featuring new works by Adrienne Elise Tarver. This marks her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery which opens May 16th and will remain on view through June 19th with an opening reception on May 16th from 6-8pm.

Central to Tarver’s practice is an interest in the visibility and complexities of the black female experience. This new body of work explores the intersection of identity, interwoven narratives and aspirational spaces through the lens of complicated histories.

Recalling black actresses of the 1920s through 1960s, such as Dorothy Dandridge, Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne, and Hattie McDaniel, Tarver develops the narrative of her recurring fictional character, Vera Otis. Situated in an idyllic house based on the Tarver Plantation, a southern plantation sharing the artist’s namesake, Vera is depicted enjoying the comforts of a “Hollywood” home. Here, Tarver uses the depictions of the plantation and Vera to confront the inherent dualities that exist within their historical backdrops and considers the origin stories as well as the power dynamics that have shaped these identities.

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Winter 2022/2023 Update

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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.”

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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.

Fall 2022 Update

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Silver Art Projects Studio Residency

I’m happy to announce that I’ve been accepted to the Silver Art Projects Residency program for the 2022-2023 cohort. This unique residency provides a studio space in the World Trade Center complex for 10-months starting in September.

October 14 - 16, 2022

I’m excited to show some pieces from my Mirage series at ArtVerona with A plus A Gallery in October.

I’ve already started to get my hands dirty, but this winter I’m excited to officially start a ceramics residency at Artshack in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn.

FIGURE, CHARACTER, SIGN

Friday, July 29 – Friday, August 19, 2022

A PLUS A GALLERY - Calle Malipiero, San Marco 3073, Venice 30124, Italy

I was happy to participate and install a new site-specific wall collage piece in this exhibition coordinated by Boston University College of Fine Arts and School of Visual Arts, along with BU Study Abroad, Global Programs, and The Venice Studio Arts Program as they celebrate more than 20 years of teaching art and design in Venice. They partnered with A plus A Gallery and School for Curatorial Studies, Venice, for the exhibition, “Figure, Character, Sign” that looks at ritualized artistic return as an important form of cultural inquiry and a source for creative work.

By circling back to the past—and to language, identity, archetypal images, earthly elements, and card games—the artists in this exhibition develop new forms of expression, share research, and raise questions about the individual relative to the collective. Patterns of stones, water, stars, and leaves evoke nature, spiritual ritual, the context of Venice, and connections between the human and non-human—a theme of the 2022 Venice Biennale.

The exhibition featured work by BU alumni Maria Molteni (CFA’06) and Adrienne Elise Tarver (CFA’07), and Radical Return, a group project of work by Chinese and Chinese American artists and designers curated by Mary Y. Yang and Zhongkai Li. “Figure, Character, Sign” is curated by Dana Clancy, Director, Associate Professor of Art, and Mary Y. Yang, Assistant Professor of Art, at BU College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts.

 

Arrangements in Black

27 July - 19 August 2022

Phillips: 432 Park Avenue, New York, NY

I had two new works in Arrangements in Black, an exhibition featuring 21 contemporary artists responding to the color black.

Participating Artists: Esteban Whiteside, Dominique Duroseau, Elzie Williams III, Natia Lemay, Ryan Cosbert, Christina Nicola, Estelle Maisonett, Monica Ikegwu, Adrienne Elise Tarver, Kevin Claiborne, Drew Weech, Mario Moore, Emmanuel Massillon, Patrick Alston, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Josie Love Roebuck, Wynnie Mynerva, Lindsey Brittain Collins, LaToya Hobbs, Telvin Wallace, Kim Dacres.

Spring/ Summer 2022 Update

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Featured on PLATFORM

Platform is the online destination for buying art by today's most sought-after artists. Each month, Platform offers a curated selection of around 90 new artworks to buy now, selected in partnership with David Zwirner and presented by leading gallery partners across the country.

My work is featured in partnership with Dinner Gallery.

NADA Art Fair with Dinner Gallery

May 5 - 8, 2022

Pier 36, 299 South Street, NY, NY

Dinner Gallery is excited to participate in NADA Art fair and show works by Phaan Howng and Adrienne Elise Tarver. Visit the gallery in Booth 1.10

Manifesting Paradise: TALK + TAROT READING

Adrienne Elise Tarver in conversation with Tiana Webb Evans

Wed, May 18 - 5:00 pm EST

Neue House, 110 E 25th St, NY, NY

Join me for an artist talk hosted by Neue House and sponsored by Platform during Frieze week in New York. I’ll be in conversation with Tiana Webb Evans about my ongoing series, “Manifesting Paradise” which is a based on tarot cards. Then the audience will have a chance to select pieces for impromptu readings based on their selections


20 Years in Venice with Boston University

July 26 - August 20, 2022

A Plus A Gallery, Calle Malipiero, San Marco 3073, Venice, Italy

This July I’m excited to install a site specific work at A Plus A Gallery in Venice, Italy. The show, featuring myself (BFA 2007), Maria Molteni (BFA 2006), and Radical Return (BU Faculty Mary Y. Yang) is in conversation with the Venice Biennale and celebrates 20 years of BU’s Venice study aboard program which I participated in years ago.

 

Manifesting Paradise

ACADEMY ART MUSEUM

106 South St, Easton, Maryland

April 5 - July 24, 2022

Adrienne Elise Tarver’s paintings and works on paper look to the past and the future through bold figures and botanical forms brought to life with a warm palette rich with dynamic overtones and gradients. Manifesting Paradise brings together multiple series by the artist.

Artist Talk - Friday, May 13 from 6 - 7 pm

Winter/Spring 2022 Update

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OUR BLUE PLANET: GLOBAL VISIONS OF WATER

March 18 – May 30, 2022

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM

In response to one of Earth’s most vital natural resources, artworks created in 618 AD are presented alongside contemporary works…More than 80 paintings, sculptures, films, photographs, and textiles on view are drawn from SAM’s collections and loans from local collectors.

Adrienne Elise Tarver: Manifesting Paradise

ACADEMY ART MUSEUM

106 South St, Easton, Maryland

April 5 - July 3, 2022

Adrienne Elise Tarver’s paintings and works on paper look to the past and the future through bold figures and botanical forms, brought to life with a warm palette rich with dynamic overtones and gradients. Manifesting Paradise brings together multiple series by the artist.

"Mirage" at Ochi Projects LA

Ochi Projects is pleased to present “Mirage,” Brooklyn-based artist Adrienne Elise Tarver’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be on view in our upstairs space from November 10 – December 15 with an opening reception Saturday, November 10 from 6-9pm.

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Panel Discussion: Creative Capital: Building Collaborative Art Spaces

I was excited to participate in a Panel Discussion at my alma mater, Boston University.

Panel Discussion Creative Capital: Building Collaborative Art Spaces Saturday, September 22, 3:00pm 808 Gallery Presented in conjunction with the exhibition, A Few Conversations Between Women, and Boston University Alumni Weekend, this panel will feature alumnae of the College of Fine Arts who have started visual art galleries, collaborative projects, or arts practice studios that create opportunities, space, and dialog for women artists.

Panel participants will represent both local and regional projects and discuss the importance of expanding one’s individual practice to one that is more collaborative in focus. Panelists include: Angela Conant, Co-Founder, The Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn Erika Hess, Co-Founder, Musa Collective, Boston Nina Bellucci, Co-Founder, Musa Collective, Boston Adrienne Elise Tarver, Director of HSA Gallery at Harlem School for the Arts in Harlem, New York and Residency Advisor for Brooklyn Art Space/ Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn. Moderated by Lynne Cooney, Artistic Director Boston University Art Galleries

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