Cade Tompkins Projects

Opening tomorrow at 10 am - Friday 4/5 reception 5-8:30 “How it Started, How It’s Going” A Print and Proof Exhibition in the gallery - featuring - NAFIS M. WHITE
Hypnotic Progressions Black 2017
Hypnotic Progressions Teal 2017
screen print
30 x 22 inches each
edition 2/5

Riffing off of Brian Eno’s quote “Repetition is a Form of Change”, White creates this abstract and rhythmic patterning which gives way to contemporary figurative images inspired by 19th Century silhouettes. Each fan handle is hand carved by White with a jewelers saw and laid in configuration directly onto the exposure unit plate incorporating a low relief, sculptural technique to create this screenprint.

YOONMI NAM
The Four Seasons 2019
suite of 4 mokuhanga prints
11.75 x 16.5 inches each
edition of 15

This set of four prints is accompanied by two watercolor sketches in the exhibition that highlight Yoonmi’s creative process. The Four Seasons was inspired by the 17th century Chinese woodblock printed books, The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting and Ten Bamboo Studio. Reading from right to left, Nam created four simple still life images that depict items that represent the four seasons – winter, spring, summer, and fall. The format of each print reveals the binding structure of a traditional Asian stab binding technique. The prints are presented as if all the pages have been taken apart, thus splitting the still life images into separate pages.

** We are pleased to announce that The Four Seasons was acquired by the RISD Museum as part of their permanent collection (2023).

Last night and in the gallery 💥Straight, No Chaser 💥a lively conversation with Nafis M. White and Leland Baker who joined us as they discussed Nafis’ exhibition Paint the Town Red 💋Leland Baker is a saxophonist, educator and composer. White and Baker connect through their creative practices and overlap in their love for the performative aspects of their art making processes. Celebrating valentines 💌 early with amazing and powerful artistic expression! Inspired!!

Miami⭐️Art, Sunshine, 🖼️
Never too much of either!
Installation of our fabulous artists at INK Miami!
1. Nancy Friese sublime watercolors💧
2. Allison Bianco and Bob Dilworth showing up in style
3. Serena Perrone magical work and Walter Addison 🦅
4. Mark Perry fabulous weaving acrylic☀️
5. Nafis M. White rich and golden monotypes🍁 and Stella Ebner sly humor
6. Louise Sheldon Cool and quirky watercolors
I am so darn excited about all these amazing creators!!
Check it out as prices are rarely listed on our website but you can see all works at the fair!

Next up — INK Miami! Join us in Miami Beach for INK Miami at Dorchester Suites. Opening night is Wednesday, December 6th. This fabulous fair is free and open to the public. We will have a variety of works from gallery artists. Visit our website link in bio for full list.

Alchemy, Wishes, Dreams and Natural Phenomenon in exhibition and art form with “Nafis M. White:Paint the Town Red” at the gallery now! Thank you to all who joined us for a beautiful opening event. More to follow♥️🎈⏰💋🌹🎁❣️

“Allison Bianco ~ Stand to Sea” at IFPDA fair in NYC🗽 Lovely shout out in artnet news ~ thank you 🌸 today on view from 11-7 tomorrow 11-5 Come on over to the Hudson River and catch the 🌊 of spectacular large-scale (and smaller) intaglio and screen print works by Allison Bianco….selling swiftly😊specially priced !

In 2001, artist Nancy Friese was part of the LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) residency on the 92nd Floor of the World Trade Center. Her studio, where she had been working since early Spring, was filled with oil paintings and drawings of the view from the WTC. As divine fate would direct her to safety, her RISD convocation and duties to teaching began on 9/10/2001 bringing her home safely to Rhode Island.

Loss of life of over 3,000 people, including sculptor and fellow resident, Michael Richards, perished that fateful day. Always remember 9/11, even 22 years later, and remember all those whose lives changed forever. May we never ever see such an attack on our Country and such senseless loss of civilian life.
#911

Thank you to the RISD Museum, Dominic Molon (Chief Curator and Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art), Sara Ganz Blythe (Interim Director) and the Fine Arts Committee and the board of the RISD Museum. To have an alumni, such as Bob Dilworth, enter the collection with a substantial painting is a treasured moment of recognition for an outstanding artist. Imagine for a moment, the years of work, exploration, creation, joy, ups and downs, recognition elsewhere and then to return home to RISD to be so perfectly honored. We are thrilled to share this news and we look forward to seeing the work on view in the museum.

Also announcing the solo exhibition Bob Dilworth: Backyard at the Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island. The show will be on view from July 15 - December 31, 2023.

The exhibition features over 20 large-scale recent paintings by Dilworth including Bear Witness, which was acquired into the RISD Museum Collection this year. Curated by Dr. Francine Weiss. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

About the artist:
“My paintings, textiles, and works on paper tackle issues of race, culture, ethnicity, family, myths, folktales, and religious beliefs through metaphor and allegory. They employ an aesthetic gesture towards moments in history that run parallel to current times, often intersecting and exploring hidden and deeper meanings of my experience as an African American male. My current work examines the identity of friends and family and explores notions of home, heritage, ancestry, and generational change. This examination of friends and family members is also seen in decorative patterns, designs, and bric-a-brac; executed in oil and acrylic paint, spray paint, stencil, paint markers, inks, or glued, stitched and sewn onto fabric, paper and other surfaces.” ~ Bob Dilworth

Dilworth earned an MFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has taught at Princeton University, Brown University, University of Rhode Island and Columbia College in Chicago. Bob Dilworth is represented by Cade Tompkins Projects.

We are so pleased to announce NAFIS M. WHITE, awardee of the prestigious Rhode Island Foundation's MacColl Johnson Fellowship

Established by the Rhode Island Foundation in 2003, The Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund provides up to three fellowships to emerging or mid-career visual artists from Rhode Island. Artist Communities Alliance (ACA) leads the selection process for these fellowships.
Pictured above: Nafis at Black [Space] Residency in San Francisco, Untitled 2022, stream of consciousness writing, paper, paint marker, fan

Nafis has also been awarded The RISD Serves Award (2023), which recognizes alumni who have achieved distinction through significant contributions and voluntary service to improving the lives of others over a sustained period of time. A commemorative plaque of awardees is prominently displayed at RISD.

Nafis is moving into her new Providence studio and we are excited to make appointments for studio visits, please feel free to contact us.

DUBAI - “Sophiya Khwaja: Nooks of Power” opens at Tashkeel Gallery. We are so pleased to announce a solo exhibition, SOPHIYA KHWAJA: Nooks of Power, at Tashkeel Gallery in Dubai. This exhibition marks the completion of Sophiya’s journey on the Tashkeel Critical Practice Programme (CPP), mentored by Salima Hashmi and Dawn Ross. ‘Nooks of Power’ is Sophiya’s first solo exhibition in the UAE and will be on view through June 13, 2023. Launched in 2014, the Tashkeel Critical Practice Programme offers sustained studio support, critique, mentorship and production to UAE-based artists.

Sophiya's work can be divided into five distinct series that are all executed on paper. The techniques range from pastels to digital prints, utilizing acrylics, thread, collage, teawashes and gouache. “Nooks of Power” aims to investigate the ways and methods in which humans acquire, hoard and unleash authoritative power, with Sophiya dissecting herself as specimen no. 1 within this exploration.

shkran lak شكرًا لك to for the opportunity and support of Sophiya Khwaja .khwaja and thank you to mentors Salina Hashmi and Dawn Ross for your deep encouragement and engagement.

Celebrating Black Artists - Donnamaria Bruton, Bob Dilworth, Nafis M. White - during Black History Month observed for the past 53 years. Visuals tell all - here is a peek at 2022 and the start of 2023!

Slide 1&2 Donnmaria Bruton, “From Sense to Soul” Installation Newport Art Museum, 2022

Slide 3&4 Bob Dilworth “Another Place”, Cade Tompkins Projects, 2022

Slide 5&6 Nafis M. White “Freedom Is My Favorite Position”, Central Contemporary Arts, 2023

So thrilled to share “Alice Neel & Fanya Foss” on view through 2/19 at Skylight Culver City, CA. Thank you and for the opportunity!

Thank you to Sarah Cascone and excited to have tell the story of the intertwining story of two fascinating female creatives: We love the crossover of the visual arts, music and writing. Celebrating the communities of all creatives past and present! SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Come visit Alice and Fanya, booth # 5 open today through Sunday 2/19. Photos

NAFIS M. WHITE (American, b. 1977) brings powerful work to the fore with her current exhibition “Freedom Is My Favorite Position” on view at Central Contemporary Arts, Providence, Rhode Island through March 18, 2023. Run, don’t walk, to see this monumental and magnificent work created by Nafis M. White. Do not miss as this exhibition is History now! If you would like a virtual tour, just send me a note.

Curator André Bloodstone Singleton writes: Known for her immersive and accumulative work, White adorns the exhibition walls with her Oculus sculptures, powerful incantations made entirely of synthetic hair held in place with Bobby pins, that honor her Ancestry, weaving together the traditions of African and African American hair braiding with that of Victorian hair wrapping. Looming large within the space is an interactive work titled Self-Portrait, composed of dozens of ornate glass jars filled with black licorice varieties from around the world which viewers are invited to consume as they imagine what it is like to walk in someone else’s experience. Also present is a series of photographs titled The Hunger Series, created during quarantine in 2020 in which the Artist is seated at her dinner table secured in a corset, surrounded by red foods that are pulsatingly ripe and full of life, a visual poem depicting desire and containment, fertility and pollination, hunger and satiation.

VICE in the Shop! With New Years 48 hours away….what is your New Year Resolution?
David Curcio (American, 1972) received his MFA at Pratt Institute in New York in 2001. While teaching printmaking abroad, he furthered his education in etching at Il Bisonte Scuola della Grafica in Florence and completed a residence in Japanese woodcut in Awaji-Shima Japan. Curcio's work has recently been included in Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of Mokuhanga, a book about American artists working in the Japanese print medium.

Googly Eyes in the Shop!! Don’t miss the Allison Bianco (American, b. 1979) lively and fun screen print inspired by her commission for P.S. 958, Brooklyn Public School and Collection of the NYC Department of Education! The tiled mural completed in August 2022 is delightful and inspired by the oceans and beaches of New York City’s coast line.

Curious Tide 2022 is a dramatic interaction between water and sky foreshadows a physical shift in the climate of the oceanscape beneath, with unexpected objects and color designed to provide moments of humor and wonder. The weathering and entanglement expressed in the mural are linked to remembrances of shared and changing places.

Allison Bianco is a printmaker who has long been inspired by the Japanese artists who created myriad views of landscapes and seascapes as homage and visual record of Edo, which is present- day Tokyo. The waveforms in this piece are a nod to the ocean patterning and design of some of these timeless prints, examples of which can be viewed in the Brooklyn Museum’s complete set of Hiroshige’s “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” when they are on display or in their entirety on the museum’s website. In contrast to these Japanese exemplars, Bianco’s homage to the places she depicts often include impossible elements that are intended to hint that the image is not as the place exists, but as it will be remembered by those who live to see it change.

Nancy Friese (American, b. 1948)

Two beautiful watercolors in the Shop! Delicate night scene and pastural field and grove painted in tonal grey and blues on site at The Andy Warhol Preserve, Montauk, Long Island - just the art to look at for eternity! Specially priced in the Shop!

There is wide recognition of Friese as one of our country’s most influential interpreters of American landscape, as well as European and Asian landscapes. Locations for paintings have included Giverny and Brittany in France, the Dakota Badlands, the fields and groves in Long Island, New York, the rivers of Connecticut and the vast ocean views of southern Rhode Island. Invited to paint in renowned nature preserves and arboretums, preservation and conservation come to mind knowing that land is precious and sacred. Nancy Friese’s paintings are a tangible outcome of memory, captivating a combination of weather, time, color, stroke, movement and atmosphere.

In the Shop - Bob Dilworth (American, b. 1951). A beautiful work on paper at advantageous price now!

Originally from a small, rural town, 50 miles south of Richmond, Virginia, Dilworth employees the fluent use of textiles as an effort to preserve “institutional memory” as its residents leave for more opportunity and the once thriving community is fading into history. Dilworth has returned to Lawrenceville over the years to interview residents and take photos of their homes, furniture, curtains, quilts and tablecloths that are stories of their lives. Dilworth’s current work examines the identity of friends and family and explores notions of home, heritage, ancestry and generational change. This examination of friends and family members is also seen in decorative patterns, designs and bric-a-brac executed in oil and acrylic paint, spray paint, stencil, paint makers, inks as well as glued, stitched and sewn fabrics and paper.

"My paintings employ an aesthetic gesture towards moments in history that run parallel to current times, often intersecting and exploring hidden and deeper meanings of my experience as an African American male.”

Serena Perrine (American, b. 1979) Magical “Dietro il glicine (behind the wisteria) 2018 in the Shop! Let’s celebrate the darkest days of winter with the light of Santa Lucia 12/13 Swedish Festival of Lights🕯️Serena Perrone uses various mediums to create both large-scale prints and drawings and smaller, intimate works. Uniquely combining techniques such as woodcut printing with hand-mixed metallic inks and delicate drawings in silverpoint and goldpoint, Perrone is a master of her highly refined use of materials. The mixture of mediums is reflected in the content of the work as well. Images of real and fantastical scenes blend together to create a narrative that is similar to a surrealist painting or film. The reading of the work is neither obvious nor direct; rather every element serves a specific purpose which allows the scenes to slowly reveal their intentions and meanings to the patient viewer.

I❤️NY 🗽Fabulous Stella Ebner (American, b. 1975) in the Shop!

Stella Ebner explores the inherent qualities of printmaking to examine how imagery in our society is created and conveyed within the context of a deep appreciation for the moments that are left outside the picture frame - the overlooked, the forgotten. She primarily employs the mediums of screen print, water-based woodblock, and watercolor monoprint to realize her work.

In the more recent woodblock and watercolor monoprints, Ebner explores the overlapping boundaries and relationships between the human and the animal within contemporary American life. As Ebner explains, The inspiration for these prints is embodied in both the Japanese woodblock bird-and-flower prints and surimono prints, specifically the surimono prints that depict still life imagery. These prints explored the complex lives of animals, birds and insects and their relationship with the natural world. I am interested in pulling such imagery into the contemporary world, where the beauty of animals and nature are viewed through the prism of the American every day.

Nafis M. White - Supreme “Oculus (Lime, Tangerine, Maple, Charcoal, Baby Blue)” ✨ in the Shop!! These small sculptures are rare 💎 Don’t miss this moment and special price for exquisite work. 🎄Watch this artist soar🚨

Nafis M. White (American, b. 1977) draws inspiration from the rich Diaspora of experiences and traditions of Black beauty and self care built upon centuries old histories of embodied knowledge that honors, celebrates, and values the innovation, technology and imagination carried through and passed on by the fingertips of Black people. Through play and continuous exploration, White employs her research on the intricate customs of Victorian Hair Weaving and mourning traditions and appropriates them using Black hair, beauty products, and African and African American hairstyling techniques where they were never imagined to take up space and esteem. She exaggerates pattern and scale with keen emphasis beholden on colors and textures to draw viewers into her creative process, while simultaneously honoring the resilience and power of a people whose very existence and aesthetics have been the subject of ridicule, persecution and systemic erasure since their harrowing and iniquitous arrival upon these shores.

Large Oculus 2021 (image with Artist) currently on view in exhibition entitled “Tabula Rasa” at Fridman Gallery, NYC until December 17th.

Hot Dog🐶 in The Shop! We are excited to showcase this dear dachshund by Walter Addison!

Walter Addison (American, 1914-1982) Loved animals! He was the on-site artist for the New York Zoological Society and lived in Greenwich Village with his pet dogs, birds, raccoon and occasional other wild life before moving to Washington County, Connecticut.

Born in Spokane, Washington, Addison moved to New York City in 1930 as a young, aspiring artist. Over the course of the next three decades, he established himself in the artistic and zoological worlds of New York and became recognized as an outstanding artist focused on domestic and wild animals.

In the early 1930s Addison studied at the National Academy of Design and earned several prestigious fellowships in the arts: The Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture and the Tiffany Sculpture Fellowship. During the 1940s he worked as the lead artist at the Bronx Zoo, where he painted many famous murals decorating the animal houses. Addison proceeded to earn several public art commissions, such as a much-lauded mural at the Governor Clinton Hotel in New York, an invitation to exhibit animal sculptures in the General Motors building at the 1964 World's Fair, and a mural for the New York City Aquarium in 1965. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Addison also created animal sculptures for the popular window displays of Macy's and Lord & Taylor department stores in Manhattan.

“Nancy Friese: Eloquent Landscapes” is ushering in the subtle light and natures endless beauty of the early winter season. We hope you will come to visit, contact us for an appointment and pick up a complimentary catalogue containing plain air paintings spanning 40 years of Friese’s career. Special thanks to Susan Tallman and Eileen Hogue for their accompanying essays.

The exhibition will be on view at the gallery through February 25, 2023.

Nafis M.White on view in NYC in beautifully curated exhibition by - “Fabula Rasa” through 12/17. Evocative works by nine amazing women! Powerful and fully present works by Nafis - 8 foot Oculus shown first at the and now one may view in NYC … worth a visit!

Celebrating Orit Hofshi! — from ArtDaily today —The National Gallery of Art announced a remarkable gift of $10 million from the family of Victoria P. Sant, former president of the National Gallery of Art, to fund the acquisition of work by Women!

Orit’s work “Time…thou ceaseless lackey to eternity” was acquired by The National Gallery of Art as part of this initiative. Thank you

AND….

The Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA, United States announces “Making Her Mark” new exhibition on view through December 17, 2022

Exhibiting artists: Judy Chicago, Tara Donovan, Orit Hofshi, Sister Mary Corita Kent, Hung Liu, Louise Nevelson, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kara Walker.

"Making her Mark" celebrates groundbreaking women artists in the Turner collection. Founded by Janet Turner, Chico State’s first printmaking professor, the Turner has a unique responsibility to elevate the work of female printmakers. Featuring pieces by major 20th and 21st century artists, "Making her Mark" investigates the links between feminism and activism, women’s work and artistic labor.”

In celebration of Print Month in New York we are pleased to share new editions and works on paper by our gallery artists. Images by 1. Serena Perrone 2. Stella Ebner 3. Allison Bianco 4. Orit Hofshi 5. Lois Harada 6. Nancy Friese 7. Donnamaria Bruton

Visit our website for a closer look at these new works!

In celebration of Print Month in New York we are pleased to share new editions and works on paper by our gallery artists. Images by 1. Serena Perrone 2. Stella Ebner 3. Allison Bianco 4. Orit Hofshi 5. Lois Harada 6. Nancy Friese 7. Donnamaria Bruton

Visit our website for a closer look at these new works!

Thank you .mcquaid for the sensitive and thoughtful review of "Bob Dilworth: Another Place” in the Boston Globe on 7/22/22 Weekend Section. Exhibition in person through September 2 and on-line: link in bio.

Welcome to the Shop Drop: Summer Flash Sale of Thomas Sgouros (American 1927-2012) “Remembered Landscapes” and “Studio Still Life” in lush watercolors and pastels available at an extraordinary price for a limited time until July 22😁 link to shop in bio 🏞🌅also on view at the RISD Museum in the exhibition curated by Conor Moynihan entitled Variance” until 10/9/22

Amazing Monumental work by Entang Wiharso (b. 1967 Central Java, Indonesia) Surreal dreamscape with drama and glitter✨🪩 and fabulous all over floral patterns, sea forms, human forms, eyes and magic!🧞‍♂️