Just Above Midtown : changing spaces / edited by Thomas (T.) Jean Lax and Lilia Rocio Taboada in collaboration with Linda Goode Bryant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goode-Bryant, Linda, editor.

Lax, Thomas J., editor.

Taboada, Lilia Rocio, editor.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution, publisher.

Studio Museum in Harlem, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Just Above Midtown, Inc--Exhibitions.

Just Above Midtown, Inc.

African American art--20th century--Exhibitions.

African American art.

Arts--Experimental methods--20th century.

Arts.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

183 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 x 25 cm

Other Title:

Changing spaces

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Museum of Modern art : Studio Museum in Harlem : Distributed by ARTBOOK, D.A.P., [2022]

Summary:

Just Above Midtown, or JAM, was an art gallery and self-described laboratory for experimentation led by Linda Goode Bryant that foregrounded African American artists and artists of color. Open from 1974 to 1986, it was a place where an expansive idea of contemporary art flourished and debate was cultivated. The gallery offered early opportunities for artists recognized as pivotal figures in late-20th-century art?including David Hammons, Butch Morris, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O?Grady and Howardena Pindell?as well as a nonhierarchical approach to art that welcomed artists without stylistic proscription.00Published in conjunction with the first museum exhibition to focus on this visionary gallery and its ongoing impact, JAM: The Process as Art, 1974 to the Present showcases rarely seen material from JAM?s history?artworks, ephemera and photographs?that collectively document the gallery?s communal and programmatic activities. This richly illustrated catalog includes essays that contextualize JAM and consider its legacy, a conversation between Goode Bryant and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, a complete exhibition chronology written by MoMA and Studio Museum staff with nearly 50 annotated entries, and excerpts from oral histories with JAM staff and artists conducted especially for this project.00Exhibition: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (09.10.2022 - 18.02.2023).

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Can JAM Be JAM at MoMA? A Conversation between / Thelma Golden

50 West 57th Street 1974-79

Up in the Air / Thomas (T.) Jean Lax

178-80 Franklin Street 1980-84

The World According to Linda Goode Bryant / Kellie Jones

503 Broadway 1984-86.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 9, 2022-February 18, 2023.

Artists include: Bimal Banerjee ; Dawoud Bey ; Cathey Billian ; Camille Billops ; Willie Birch ; Sydney Blum ; Rolando Briseño ; Vivian Browne ; Barbara Chase-Riboud ; Albert Chong ; Martin Cohen ; Dan Concholar ; Houston Conwill ; Blondell Cummings (with Senga Nengudi and Yasunao Tone) ; Charles Daniel Dawson ; Marcy R. Edelstein ; Wendy Ward Ehlers ; Peter Feldstein ; Tom Finkelpearl ; Howard Finster ; Susan Fitzsimmons ; David Hammons ; Maren Hassinger ; Cynthia Hawkins ; Palmer Hayden ; Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds ; Janet Olivia Henry ; Suzanne Jackson ; Walter C. Jackson ; Noah Jemison ; G. Peter Jemison ; Jasper Johns ; Nina Kuo ; Norman Lewis ; Rosemary Mayer ; Valerie Maynard ; George Mingo ; Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe ; Senga Nengudi ; Senga Nengudi (with Cheryl Banks-Smith and Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris) ; Lorraine O'Grady ; Sandra Payne ; Howardena Pindell ; Liliana Porter ; Robert Rauschenberg ; Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds ; Jorge Luis Rodriguez ; Betye Saar ; Raymond Saunders ; Coreen Simpson ; Lorna Simpson ; Russ Thompson ; Randy Williams.

Includes oral histories by Horace Brockington, Gylbert Coker, Pat Cummings, Kathleen Goncharov, Maren Hassinger, Janet Olivia Henry, AC Hudgins, Senga Nengudi, Lowery Stokes Sims, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Faythe Weaver, Tony Whitfield, and Randy Williams and chronologies by Eric Booker, Brandon Eng, Marielle Ingram, Yelena Keller, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Legacy Russell, Lilia Rocio Taboada.

ISBN:

9781633451377

1633451372

OCLC:

1304243501

Publisher Number:

MoMA 2505