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Giving Voice to Women and BIPOC Artists - In Conversation with Claire Oliver of Claire Oliver Gallery
Widewalls May 17, 2023For over thirty years, Claire Oliver Gallery has remained true to its original policy to champion underrepresented artists. Thanks to their initiative, the works of...Read more -
European Old Master Paintings Reexamined in New York Under A Fresh Take On Blackness and Slavery
Forbes March 9, 2023Across the world’s finest art institutions and most prized collections, a number of exhibitions are recontextualizing what makes an old master painting. Erasure of Blackness...Read more -
At the Met, in Harlem and beyond, acclaimed artist honors enslaved SC ancestors
The Post and Courier February 25, 2023Sometimes the road to a deeper understanding of South Carolina beats a path to Harlem. On a late Friday afternoon, I am barreling in a...Read more -
Using Hair, Rice, and Indigo, an Artist Reclaims Her Family History
HYPERALLERGIC February 24, 2023Human history isn’t confined to documents and records, but embedded in the organic materials that we consume, produce, and cast away throughout our lifespans. In...Read more -
Haunting Generational Trauma In "Remains" By Adebunmi Gbadebo At Claire Oliver Gallery In Harlem
Forbes February 11, 2023In Remains, a solo show by Adebunmi Gbadebo at Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem, collective memory and generational trauma take on new depths. Among the...Read more -
Events: Adebunmi Gbadebo: Remains
Surface Magazine February 8, 2023In “Remains,” Adebunmi Gbadebo uses indigo, rice paper, cotton, human hair, and ceramic creations to explore the plight of her ancestors, who were enslaved at...Read more -
Design Dispatch: Pop culture–themed restaurants are having a moment, Eames skateboards, and the dilemma of celebrity queerbaiting.
Surface Magazine February 8, 2023Adebunmi Gbadebo uses indigo, rice paper, cotton, human hair, and ceramic creations to explore the plight of her ancestors, who were enslaved at the True...Read more -
Adebunmi Gbadebo: Remains
The Brooklyn Rail February 1, 2023'Remains will count among the most significant gallery exhibitions of the year.' The ten works on view in Remains at Harlem’s Claire Oliver Gallery prove...Read more -
10 Women Abstract Artists on the Rise
Artsy January 26, 2023Across auctions , art fairs , and gallery exhibitions at the end of 2022, it became very clear that abstraction was back. Although painting in...Read more -
Claire Oliver Gallery Announces Solo Exhibition Remains By Artist Adebummi Gbadebo Remains Will Tour Museums Following New York City Debut On View January 13 - March 11, 2023, Harlem, NY
Style Magazine Newswire January 17, 2023On view, January 13 – March 11, 2023, the exhibition continues Gbadebo's years-long exploration of her ancestral origins centered on the plantation on which her...Read more -
Shining a Light on a Dark Chapter of American Pottery
HYPERALLERGIC January 13, 2023Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina brings awareness of both Edgefield’s awesome artistry and poet-potter David Drake’s odds-defying life to...Read more -
5 Must-See New York Gallery Shows This Winter
Avenue Magazine January 13, 2023ADEBUNMI GBADEBO: REMAINS Claire Oliver Gallery, 2288 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard January 13–March 11 “I’ve been dedicated to exploring materials, like rice, indigo, and...Read more -
NYC Selected Gallery Guide: January, 2023
TWO COATS OF PAINT January 6, 2023It’s 2023, and we’re still publishing, thanks to all the readers who made generous contributions during our 2022 Year-End Fund Drive. In Brooklyn, former Two...Read more -
Opening This Week
ArtsGazing January 2, 2023Adebunmi Gbadebo: Remains – Claire Oliver Gallery By turns heart-breaking and empowering, the artworks in Adebunmi Gbadebo: Remains (January 13 – March 11, 2023) incorporate...Read more -
Must- See Museum Shows for January
ARTnews January 2, 2023Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina Featuring the work of enslaved African American potters from the 19th-century—along with contemporary artistic...Read more -
Claire Oliver Gallery Announces Solo Exhibition ‘Remains’ by Adebunmi Gbadebo in January, 2023
GothamToGo December 22, 2022Claire Oliver Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition Remains by artist Adebunmi Gbadebo . On view January 13 – March 11, 2023, the...Read more -
A Pilgrimage
The Edgefield Advertiser October 7, 2022A tentacle, strong and far-reaching, of Edgefield’s history has reached the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), in New York City, with a breathtaking exhibit...Read more -
Self-healing and magic crystallize in ‘SALT to CATCH GHOSTS’
48 hills September 30, 2022Against the stark white walls in the main gallery, Gbadebo presents two works using black dreadlocks: “Dada” (2015) and “Magic Johnson has the cure to...Read more -
Fall Arts Preview 2022: Museum Shows You Won’t Want to Miss
OBSERVER September 27, 2022Explore African American studies through the 19th century utilitarian wares of Old Edgefield District, South Carolina. The exhibit features works made by Edgefield artists including...Read more -
Adebunmi Gbadebo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art September 8, 2022Closing Soon!!! The landmark exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on September...Read more -
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters Of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
Antiques and The Arts Weekly September 6, 2022NEW YORK CITY – On view from September 9 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) and traveling thereafter, “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters...Read more -
TRUE BLUE: The Culpability of a Material
Tatter January 4, 2022Adebunmi creates sculptures, prints, ceramics, and paper using historical and cultural imbued materials. Currently focused on her “True Blue and Land for Sale” series, Adebunmi...Read more -
Editors’ Picks: 19 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week
artnet news December 14, 2020Harlem’s Claire Oliver Gallery reopens with the first New York solo show for Adebumni Gabadebo, featuring her series “True Blue,” named after two former South...Read more -
An Artist Probes Her Southern Lineage in Luminous Shades of Blue
HYPERALLEGIC October 30, 2020Gathering hair, indigo, and artifacts from two South Carolina plantations, Adebunmi Gbadebo: A Dilemma of Inheritance considers the materiality of the past.Read more -
A dilemma of inheritance Adebunmi Gbadebo employs abstraction and non-traditional materials to mine memories and histories of enslavement
Culture Type October 3, 2020There;s a family gathering of sorts underway at Claire Oliver Gallery in New York. 'Adebunmi Gbadebo: A Dilema of inheritance', features more than 45 works...Read more -
Adebumni Gabadebo: A Dilemma of Inheritance @ Claire Oliver Gallery
JUXTAPOZ September 17, 2020Claire Oliver Gallery is pleased to announce the debut solo exhibition by artist Adebunmi Gbadebo, A Dilemma of Inheritance. The exhibition will showcase the artist’s...Read more -
Art Review: Ibou Ndoye and Adebunmi Gbadebo at NJCU
Jersey City Times February 14, 2020The show features work by Newark-based sculptor and fiber artist Adebunmi Gbadebo , who works in a style that will be familiar to anybody who...Read more
