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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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.

Re_act Contemporary Residency in the Azores

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.

ARTVERONA

October 14 - 16, 2022

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

Ceramics Residency at Artshack

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.

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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.

August 2021 Update

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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

Welancora Gallery

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.

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January 2020 Update

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Inside Art at the Children's Museum of Manhattan

Opening January 18, 2020

Ages 3 -10 First Floor

Get up close and personal as you assemble, create, peek into, crawl under, and walk through one of a kind sculptures and installations in this exhibit opening January 18, 2020.

Featuring the work of nine contemporary artists, Inside Art will help you connect with art, space, and design in a whole new way. Explore larger-than-life art installations and giant sculptures by visual artists including Adrienne Elise Tarver, Borinquen Gallo, Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, Damien Davis, Joiri Minaya, Julie Ann Nagle, Leah Tinari, Tamara Kostianovsky, and Yeju & Chat.

In addition to engaging with works of art you’ll also:

• Meet CMOM’s newest artists‐in‐residence in their studios located in the gallery

• Create your own sculptures and installations in our Maker Space and Family Art Studios with our lead visual arts educators

• Connect to place and your community through pop‐up performances in dance, theater, and music performed directly in the gallery.

Inside Art featured interactive artworks include:

• Giant clusters of colorful cylinders that encourage peeks into mirrored tunnels of light, rainbows and reflections by artist duo Yeju & Chat

• A massive tabletop mystery puzzle that challenges kids to decode icons, shapes and patterns by artist Damien Davis

• A sculpture that invites children to move like a groundhog as they dwell in one of two burrows built to human scale by artist Julie Ann Nagle

• A cylindrical sculpture by Adrienne Elise Tarver that encourages pint-sized visitors to crawl under and peek through a panorama of three-dimensional leaves

• A hanging imaginary beehive by Borinquen Gallo that asks kids to think about how they can better care for our environment

• A new mural by Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez that draws upon techniques in graffiti art and painting while incorporating elements of his identity as a Dominican-Puerto Rican, a New Yorker, a dad, an artist and an educator

• An enormous fallen tree stump made of fabric by Tamara Kostianovsky invites children to crawl beneath it and explore its textures, surfaces and its scale

• Joiri Minaya’s installation encourages children to break through, stretch through and jump through holes in her spandex wall of tropical patterns that challenge preconceived ideas of the Caribbean

• Leah Tinari’s over 30 illustrative portraits will inspire visitors to remember the impact made by extraordinary U.S. women of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Members Get Early Access!
Join today to receive an invitation to Inside Art Opening and Reception on Friday, January 17 from 5:30 – 7:30pm. Don’t miss this opportunity to get a first look, mingle with artists, participate in art activities, and more.

Inside Art is funded by the Ford Foundation.

"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.

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

Talking about art in DC

Earlier this month, I had the pleasure to speak on a panel organized by Transformer Gallery at the Mexican Cultural Institute titled "Challenging Colonialism in Contemporary Art." The panel was held in conjunction with the traveling group show, "Queer Tropics," organized by Pelican Bomb which originally opening in New Orleans last November and had a second iteration in Washington DC at Transformer Gallery this spring.

Spring Break Art Show: Stranger Comes to Town

I'm excited to be in Room 2242 along with artists Alison Ruttan and Elisa Soliven in "Indoor Outside," a show curated by Nick Cueva at the Spring Break Art Show. 

Spring Break is the curator-driven art fair during Armory Arts Week in New York. This year the fair is at 4 Times Square and is open from Tuesday, March 6 to Monday, March 12. Tickets available at SpringBreakArtShow.com

"Keepsake" -- Bangkok Tuk-Tuk Video Exhibition - February 2018

Liv_id, a Bangkok-based artist-run collective, positions works of video art as disruptor, experiment and pause for thought. Connecting maker and crowd, they aim to facilitate dialog beyond typical boundary.

For this year’s Galleries’ Night 2018 event organized by the French Embassy of Thailand, the collective partnered up with SONY to present Keepsake, a mobile video art experience. During the two-night event, screens provided by SONY were installed in tuk-tuk’s transporting viewers between the 50+ galleries participating in the event. Each screen showcased short video art pieces from 5 Thai and 5 international artists including Kawita Vatanajyankur, Yuree Kensaku, Nuankhanit Phromchanya, Piyarat Piyapongwiwat, Wilawan Wiangthong, Rebecca Vickers, Adrienne Elise Tarver, Alexandra Hammond, Julie Weitz andKatya Yakubov.

The works focused on a concept of ‘Keepsake,’ considering how through a questioning of the quality and character of what can be kept as a memento, artists continuously confront the act of saving through lens intervention, recording what is being lost and envisioning what might be.

The approximately 35-minute loop of video art screened in each tuk-tuk allowed for viewers to experience the works of between one and two artists per ride while traveling between galleries and marked the first time a show of this nature has been curated in Bangkok.

http://art4d.com/2018/03/liv_id-x-galleries-night-2018-sony

Thresheld at Underdonk, curated by Codify Art

We are thrilled to present THRESHELD, a group exhibition of works by Janaye Brown, Orlando Estrada, Jes Fan, Ilana Harris-Babou, Inhye Lee, Pastiche Lumumba, and Adrienne Elise Tarver at Underdonk in Brooklyn. Please join us for our opening event on August 11, 2017 from 7–9PM. The show will run August 11–September 10, 2017.

Where:

Underdonk

1329 Willoughby Ave #211, Brooklyn, NY 11237

When:

August 11–September 10, 2017

Opening Event: August 11, 2017, 7–9PM

Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 1–6PM and by appointment

THRESHELD explores the intimacy of routine, home as a constructed space, and ritual as a sanctified mundane.     

Full press release can be viewed on our blog.