
PRIZM 2021
PRIZM returns for its ninth edition, taking place from November 30th through December 19th, 2021. A Preview for our Patrons will take place from November 24st to 30th, 2020. PRIZM Art Fair 2021 will be available for online viewing through PRIZM’s website and Artsy.net. Film screenings and PRIZM’s panel program will be available through the fair’s website.
This year, PRIZM’s Mikhaile Solomon will present a curated exhibition entitled “Points of Contact. The special section will include 45 artists from various global locales including Congo, Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Maarten, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and the United States.
Enlisting the wisdom of global leaders in Black/African Existentialist thought, “Points of Contact” envisages black existentialism’s meaning in this contemporary moment through the various material praxes of Prizm 2021’s exhibiting artists, painting, sculpture, drawing, mixed media, and photography. From this vantage point, we contemplate our complex and layered communal histories and it is our aim to encourage a deeper understanding of global African identity by evaluating its intersections within contemporary visual art.
Black existentialism, its precepts explored in the writings of scholars (Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis, Sylvia Winter, bell hooks, James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, W.E.B. DuBois…) and in the literary works of authors who may not consider themselves black existentialist but present liberated existences in their texts (Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie…) is a school of thought that interrogates and critiques domination and affirms the empowerment of Black people in the world. My deep dive provided some humanistic clarity in the murky waters we’ve been wading in these past few months.
The central question living at the core of many of the texts I read was “What would my life be, as a person of African heritage, if I didn’t have to consider, factor in, or negotiate around the construct of racism and other similar disruptive social maladies? What does a collective understanding of black existentialism mean for global African people and humanity at large?” Because as Broadus Butler posits in his essay Frederick Douglass: The Black Philosopher in the United States “African-American thought is human-centric.”
Prizm 2021’s Gallery Program includes an international roster from acclaimed galleries in Angola, Jamaica, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the United States. Exhibition presentations by each gallery will reflect this year’s curatorial focus through the selection of works from various media including photography, video installation/new media/sculpture, drawings, paintings, and mixed media.


Masked Luncheon, 2021
Alanis Forde
Oil Paint on Canvas
30 x 30 in

Black Blood, No.10: : In the spirit of B.C. & Mollie Parker Franklin family, 2021
Ajamu Kojo
Mischtechnik on linen canvas
77.5 x 96 in.
196.9 x 243.8 cm
2021

Observación de influyentes: cultura y herencia Taino, el clima y el machismo (Observation of Influensers: Taino culture and heritage, the climate and machismo), 2020
Amber Robles-Gordon
mixed media collage on canvas
18 x24 in.
46 x 61 cm

There Will Be No Miracles Here, 2021
Antoine Williams
collage of wood

What a Preventer of Life-Loss 2, 2021
Ato Ribeiro
Repurposed Wood, Wood Glue
15 1/4 (w) x 15 1/4 (h) x 18 1/4 (d) in
38.7 x 38.7 x 46.4 cm

Callan Grecia
Headstone Chair and Seated Figure, 2021
Acrylic and spray paint on Bristol
23⅜ x 33⅛ in.
59.4 x 84.1 cm

Carl E Hazelwood
BlackHead Laughter, 2016
Cut Archival Papers, Graphite, Vinyl Tape, Pastel, Colored Pencil, Fake Pearls –
20 x 17¼ in
50.8 x 43.8 cm

Christa David
Laying Down your Burdens and Mine, 2021
Collage on Paper
8 x 10 in
20.3 x 25.4 cm

Cracks I, 2019
Damon Davis
Concrete and quartz
12 x 21 x 6 in

Power M, 2021
David Gumbs
Photography
19¾ x 15¾ in.
50 x 40 cm.

The sea is a Worksong, 2021
Deborah Jack
Collage, acrylic, gold leaf, salt crystals
30 x 44½ in
76.2 x 113 cm

Derrick Nxumalo
Residence II, 2021
Acrylic and pen on cotton needle point paper
39⅜ x 27½ in.
100 x 70 cm.

Summer Games, Francks F Deceus
Acrylic and collage on canvas
30 x 40 in.
76.2 x 101.6 cm.
2021

Picking Up the Pieces
Greatjoy Ndlovu
Oil paint & Charcoal on canvas
16 x 17 in
40 x 30 cm

Jared McGriff
Private Garden, 2021
Watercolor on Canvas paper
27 x 22½ in.
68.6 x 57.2 cm.

Untitled (Black Dollar), 2021
Jeffrey Kent
shredded US currency, glitter, acrylic, on canvas
62 x 84 in
157.5 x 213.4 cm

Betye, 2020
Jennifer Mack-Watkins
Silkscreen
9 x 12 inches
Edition 3/5

Lavett Ballard
Baby Girl, 2020
Collage/Mixed Media on Wood Slice
10 x 8 in.
25.4 x 20.3 cm.

Relentless Hosts III, 2020
Lehlogonolo Mashaba
Mixed media painting on BFK paper
20⅞ x 20⅞ in
53 x 53 cm

Leila Rose Fanner
Breathe Again I
Oil and oil pastel
152 x 100 in.
2021

Iso Lekusasa, 2021
Lindani Nyandeni
Mixed Media
39⅜ x 39⅜ in.
100 x100 cm.

Destabilizer, 2021
Lizette Chirrime
Fabric Collage Stitched on Canvas
48 x34 in.
122 x 86 cm

Maliza Kiasuwa
Gold Thread, 2021
rubber and thread
47 x16 in.
119 x 41 cm

Enveloped by the Sun #8 (Josie and Joana), Mark Fleuridor
Acrylic, Collage, and Glitter on Printed Paper (unframed)
51 x 47 in.
2021

Lauren, 2021
Marryam Moma
30×30
Handcut collage

McKinley Wallace III
Gaze, 2020
Acrylic and Digital Print on canvas on wood panel
24 x 20 in.
61 x 51 cm

Megan Lewis (b. 1989)
You know You still do, 2021
Oil and acrylic on fabric stretched on canvas
60 x 36 in.
152.4 x 91.4 cm.

Teff teffa, 2021
Meron Engida
Acrylic & Oil pigment stick on canvas
73 x62 in.
185 x 157 cm

Muramuzi Johnbosco
In the village compound, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
47¼ x 47¼ in.
120 x 120 cm


Imani Impulse, 1980
Silkscreen
38″ x 26″

End the beginning II, 2021
N. Masani Landfair
Collage on board
15 x 20 in

Convergence-In the Beginning, Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Enamel on Copper
37 x 39 x 2 in
94 x 99.1 x 5.1 cm
1996

ALGO-RIDDIM: A Bundlehouse Sonic Relief Pack, 2021
Nyugen E. Smith
Box set that includes: 14 track colored vinyl LP, 18 x 18 inch editioned 3-color screen printed flag,
editioned Relief Pack, booklet (includes: lyrics, contributors’ bios, essay), 12 x 12 inch poster, and thank you card from the artist
Edition of 50
Box set is 12.5 x 12.25 x 1.5 in.

Her Self worth is a hundred percent I, 2021
Oluwethu de Vos
Mixed Media
Pastel, charcoal, copper staples, and blowtorch on board
35⅜ x 59 in.
90 x 150 cm.

Summer in November, 2019
Pauline Marcelle
Mixed Media/Oil on Canvas
120cm x 180cm

Congregants
Phumulani Ntuli
Mixed media collage, paper transfer & acrylic on Canvas, 2019
65 x 105 in
165 x 267 cm

Selfportrait (Duality #2), 2021
Selena Jackson
Oil on Canvas
8 x 10 in

Senzeni Marasela
The Conversation, 2021
Red Cotton Thread on Cotton
55⅛ x 110¼ in.
140 x 280 cm.

SHAN Wallace
Miss Rebecca’s at Midnight, 2021
Collage, acrylic paint on Stonehenge paper
38 x 50 in.
96.5 x 127 cm.

Cora, 2021
Sipheshile Ntsungwana
Acrylic on Fabriano 200gsm
24 x 17⅜ in.
61 x 44 cm.

Tessa Alexander
Still I Rise
Watercolour and Collage on Paper
11 x 14 in.
28 x 36 cm
2021

Flower Boy, 2021
Tosin Kalejaye
Acrylic and Charcoal on Canvas
50 x 50 in
127 x 127 cm

NOG: Nubian of Greatness, 2021
Turtel Onli
Acrylics on archival primed wooden panel
42 x 32 in
106.7 x 81.3 cm

Untitled, 2021
Wayne Hodge
Photo Collage, Metal leaf, Enamel on Wood panel
12 x 12 in
30.5 x 30.5 cm

New York Emergency Field Hospital, Wendell McShine
Acrylic Paint, Aerosol, Acrylic Resin, coffee, Plastic on Canvas
63W x 37.5H
2020


Yanira Collado
Untitled
Textile, paint, and cardboard in custom frame
24 x 43 ½ inches
2020

Defining Virtue and Vice, What Separates us Connects Us, 2021
Zoya Taylor
Acrylic on Canvas
130 x 100 in
330.2 x 254 cm



Imani Impulse, 1980
Silkscreen
38″ x 26″

Callan Grecia
Drop Shoulder Feint, 2021
Acrylic & Spray Paint on Paper
16½ x 23⅜ in.
42 x 59.4 cm

Observación de influyentes: cultura y herencia Taino, el clima y el machismo (Observation of Influensers: Taino culture and heritage, the climate and machismo), 2020
Amber Robles-Gordon
Mixed Media Collage on Canvas
18 x24 in.
46 x 61 cm

Summer in November, 2019
Pauline Marcelle
Mixed Media/Oil on Canvas
120cm x 180cm

Ada Pinkston
