Videos
Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler Uses Quilting to Share About the African Diaspora | Juneteenth Artist Showcase | OWN
Bisa Butler is a portrait quiltmaker who uses colorful African textiles to capture personal and historical narratives of Black life. Her subjects range from historical figures like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to members of Butler's own family. Her mission is for people to look at her artwork and "see the true beauty of Black people."
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Gio Swaby
Gio Swaby: Visual Artist Centers on Black Joy as a Radical Act | Juneteenth Artist Showcase | OWN
As the daughter of a seamstress, Bahamian-born artist Gio Swaby says she grew up in a house that was teeming with colorful fabrics and threads. Today, Swaby uses textiles to convey the beauty, power and joy of Black womanhood.
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Lauren Fensterstock
Conversations on Content
Impermanent Conditions: artist Lauren Fensterstock discusses with Claire her use of ancient text and celestial mysteries to inspire in her new exhibition
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View the exhibit page for Lauren Fensterstock: Impermanent Conditions.
Ruben Natal-San Miguel
Conversations on Content
Artist Ruben Natal-San Miguel sits down with gallerist Claire Oliver to discuss the idea of hunting for resilience his photographs
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View the exhibit page for Love Letters For Harlem.
Gio Swaby
2021 Distinguished Artist Series
Claire Oliver of Claire Oliver Gallery interviews fiber artists Gio Swaby and Adebunmi Gbadebo for the James Renwick Alliance for Craft 2021 Distinguished Artist Series.
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View the exhibit page for Gio Swaby: Both Sides of the Sun.
Jeffrey Henson Scales
Conversations On Content
Artist Jeffery Henson Scales sits down with gallerist Claire Oliver to discuss the content captured within each of his photographs
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View the exhibit page for Love Letters For Harlem.
Claire Oliver
2020: the year in review
2020 presented an amazing array of unique challenges for the gallery community. Claire Oliver Gallery looks back at this unique year in our personal photos.
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Leonardo Benzant
Conversations On Content
Artist Leonardo Benzant sits down with gallerist Claire Oliver to discuss the content wrapped into each of his works.
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View the exhibit page for Four Now; Leonardo Benzant, Barbara Earl Thomas, Adebunmi Gbadebo & Gio Swaby.
Lauren Fensterstock
Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 – Virtual Preview
Lauren Fensterstock is featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) exhibition virtual opening reception and program for “Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020
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Barbara Earl Thomas
Barbara Earl Thomas on The Geography of Innocence
"It is the chaos of living and the grief of our time that compels me, philosophically, emotionally, and artistically. I am a witness and a chronicler"
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Bisa Butler
Newark Art Museum guided ZOOM visit to the studio of artist Bisa Buttler
Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Ph.D., Curator of American Art at the Newark Museum of Art guided a ZOOM visit to the studio of artist Bisa Buttler
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Adebunmi Gbadebo
TRUE BLUES
The Artist takes you on a journey into her families history while exposing the "Dilemma of Inheritance"
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View the exhibit page for Adebumni Gabadebo: A Dilemma of Inheritance.
Adebunmi Gbadebo
MoAD In The Artist’s Studio | Adebunmi Gbadebo
join the Museum of the African Diaspora's own Demetri Broxton as he visits Adebunmi Gbadebo in her studio.
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Barbara Earl Thomas
MoAD In The Artist’s Studio | Barbara Earl Thomas
join the Museum of the African Diaspora's own Demetri Broxton as he visits Barbara Earl Thomas in her studio.
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Leonardo Benzant
MoAD In The Artist’s Studio | Leonardo Benzant
join the Museum of the African Diaspora's own Demetri Broxton as he visits Leonardo Banzent in his studio.
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Matthew Sleeth
Experimenta Studio Sessions – Matthew Sleeth
Mathew Sleeth reflects with Jonathan Parson, Experimenta Artistic Director on his recent time in the studio and discusses working with diverse new technologies.
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Judith Schaechter
The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained-Glass Art
Looking at artist Judith Schaechter’s stained-glass panels has been described as a “thrilling and disorienting” experience, like “seeing an old master painting of a car crash.” Watch to learn more about the artist’s masterful practice and pioneering spirit. *Video by Floating Home Films
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Bisa Butler
MoAD In The Artist’s Studio | Bisa Butler
join the Museum of the African Diaspora's own Demetri Broxton as he visits Bisa Butler in her studio. She will share what she is currently working on and how her work is changing as a result of the quarantine.
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View the exhibit page for Bisa Butler: The Storm, the Whirlwind and the Earthquake.
Bisa Butler
Streams of Thought presents “Avant Yarn” A Conversation with Bisa Butler
On this episode of Streams Of Thought, titled Avant Yarn, Tariq speaks with his neighbor, who also happens to be one of his favorite visual artists, Bisa Bulter.
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Bisa Butler
Bisa Butler: Portraits @ The Katonah Museum of Art
Bisa Butler: Portraits is the first solo museum exhibition of the artist’s work and features her vivid and larger-than-life quilts that capture African American identity and culture.
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Claire Oliver
2019: the year in review
Please enjoy this look back at some of our favorite moments of 2019
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Claire Oliver
Claire Oliver Gallery Special Preview
Claire Oliver Gallery’s new home in Harlem is progressing and we are thrilled to share with you some details of our endeavors coming to fruition. Designing the new Gallery from scratch has allowed us to build as we dream the space to be, providing room for both art and community. I look forward to welcoming you soon...
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Judith Schaechter
Museum of Glass, Meet the Artist: Judith Schaechter
An intimate introduction to the fascinating work of Judith Schaechter. Produced by The Museum of Glass.
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View the exhibit page for Suspect Realities @ Seattle Art Fair 2018.
Laetitia Soulier
The Fractal Architectures
Laetitia Soulier provides views with personal insight into the works of her groundbreaking series The Fractal Architectures.
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Bisa Butler
Impatient Obsessions @ PULSE 2018
The three artists featured in Impatient Obsessions work slowly and methodically -- almost ritualistically. They create detailed and sumptuous works of art redolent with content and mystery; these works demand to be studied.
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View the exhibit page for PULSE Miami Beach.
Claire Oliver
A Look Back @ 2018
At this time of exciting changes for the Gallery and expanded audiences for our group of talented artist, Claire Oliver Gallery looks back at the year that was.
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Bisa Butler
Prudentail: Masterpiece of Love
Healing with art, Bisa Butler discusses the purposeful choices she makes in her work.
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Matthew Sleeth
Rules to Live By
Matthew Sleeth discusses the meaning infused into the works featured in his exhibition “Rules to Live By.”
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View the exhibit page for Matthew Sleeth: Rules to Live By.
Diggs & Hillel
Brick Wall Interviews: Diggs and Hillel, 125th: Time in Harlem
"125th: Time in Harlem" features the work of photographers Isaac Diggs and Edward Hillel as they work collaboratively to capture this ever-changing neighborhood. "Time in Harlem" opened at the Claire Oliver Gallery October 24th, 2014.
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Matt Bahen
Matt Bahen: The History That Lies Beneath
Matt Bahen discusses how literature inspires his fictional and moving painted landscapes.
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Judith Schaechter
Judith Schaechter on WHYY’s “Friday Arts”
Judith Schaechter discusses her fascination with the material of stained glass and the reason it has served her so well for 25 years.
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Lauren Fensterstock
RUPTURES
Ballet Des Moines' Luis Delcid inspired by Lauren Fensterstock's work The Order of Things performs at the Des Moines Art Center.
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Lauren Fensterstock
Meet The Artist
An intimate introduction to the fascinating work of Lauren Fensterstock. Produced during the artist's The Museum of Glass 2016 residency.
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Barbara Earl Thomas
Heaven on Fire
Barbara Earl Thomas discusses the inspirations and messages in the works featured in her Bainbridge Island Museum of Art exhibition spanning thirty years of art making.
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Gabi Trinkaus
Brick Wall Interviews | Gabi Trinkaus
On the occasion of her gallery exhibition, Paradise with a Limp, Austrian Artist Gabi Trinkaus sat down to discuss her artistic process and the concepts behind her works.
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Norbert Brunner
Guerlain Installation
Norbert Brunner shares an inside look into the making his major installation at the Guerlain flagship store on the Champs-Elysée, Paris.
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Barbara Earl Thomas
Seattle Cultural Ambassador Award
Barbara Earl Thomas discusses her cultural influences and community impact on the occasion of her receiving a Seattle Cultural Ambassador Award.
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Judith Schaechter
Art Phag Interview
Eric McDade of Art Phag takes us into the wonderful world of artist Judith Schaechter.
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Matt Bahen
The Consistency of Chaos
Matt Bahen discusses his use of paint as a tool to convey layers tension and meaning to his paintings surface.
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Gabi Trinkaus
Timelapse of inofficial portrait 3; 2005
Gabi Trinkaus provides an insightful timelapse look into the construction process of her works and her unique studio practice.
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