ONLINE! SOL'SCOOL â„ï¸ Performative Lectures
Every Monday 6:30-9:00 pm @ Grace Exhibition Space
Every Monday
Mon, March 30, 2020
6:30 - 9:00 PM
Free
here is the invite to Sol's class :
Jill Hoke is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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SOL'SCOOL â„ï¸
Sol’Scool â„ï¸ Will open 1/27/2020. Every Monday starting on the 27th @ Grace Space in Alphabet City, I will introduce Culture Soldiers like you to stories seldom told.
Yoruba and Congo culture are two of the most influential cultures to our contemporary popular culture. Yet most people, artist or not, know little to nothing about these two cultures and their impact on today’s cultural practices. Sol’Scool is an on going performance piece where the audience is introduced to Sub-Saharan History, Concepts and Expressions that are at the root of art movements like: Dadaism, Abstraction, Assemblage, Gospel, Blues, Jazz, Rock n Roll, Hip Hop, Modernism and Post-Modernism.
It is free to participate.
ABOUT SOL'SAX
The Good God Almighty Sol’Sax, King of Kings County, Burning Bushman of Bushwick, Was born in Kings County Hospital in 1969 his Mother was also born at the same Hospital. Sol’Sax Brooklyn’s Finest Artist, was Bred in Bucktown and now lives and works in The Boogie Down, Bronx. Sol’Sax studied the occult arts at both Cooper Union and Yale matriculating from both with honors. Sol’Sax is a Tri-State educated sculptor schooled in Old School ways from not just studying at Ivy League Schools but several Schools Of Hard Knocks including Bellevue, and Rikers. His diverse and difficult education earned him The title: The All See Street Dreaded IllumiNatty, Yale's Lock Jaw Warlock.
Sol'Sax has been seen breakdancing on MTV in 1984 and was a Party Crasher on The Cosby Show in 1987. In 1989 Sol'Sax studied Zen stone carving in Berlin. On the first day Sol'Sax visited East Berlin, The Berlin Wall Fell.
In 1991 Sol'Sax was initiated into The Mysteries of African Traditional Religion sometimes referred to as HooDoo. Since then SolSax has made art work that celebrates African Traditional Culture and it's African American retentions. His work has been shown at well known venues and collected internationally. Danny Simmons of Rush Arts has said that Sol'Sax is the Greatest Artist of his Generation.
SOL'SAX
BORN
1969 Kings County Hospital, NY
EDUCATION
1993-1995 Master of Fine Arts, Yale university, New Haven, CT
1987-1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
1987-1990 Hochschule der Kuenste, Guest Student, Berlin, Germany
1980-1987
Cooper Union Saturday Program, New York, NY
Arts Students’ League, New York, NY,
Leonia H.S., Leonia N.J.,
Phillipa Schuyler School for the gifted and talented, Kings County, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo:
2018 “Sol’Sain’t Many Kin All Sol’Skin Is A Free Kin” Material For The Arts Queens
2014 “Medicine from Heaven” A Juneteenth Jubilee, Skylight Gallery Bed-Stuy
2011 Yes We Can, A Free Can, A Merry Can: 2nd Annual Junteenth Jubilee
Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA Bed-stuy Brooklyn
2005 SOL’SNYPD, Strange fruit from the Concrete Jungle
Momenta Art, Williamsburg, Kings County
2004 Chain Link Theory Kenny Schacter Gallery, West Village, NYC
2003 Rock On SOL’SHEAD
Silverstein Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
2002 These Hand Me Down Black ‘N’ Blue Jeans
Project Room, P.S. 1 MoMA, Long Island City, Queens
2001 Hood Flags
New York City Library, Grand Army Plaza, NYC
1997 The Wild Herb of Bushwick Presents: My Tea Blessed Heads of Kings County
Rush Arts Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
1995 Recognize the Real
Silverstein Gallery, Soho, NYC
1994 Entrenched in the University, Out to take the Bread and Bakery
Arican American House, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1991 Underground Houses
Cooper Union, Great Hall Gallery, East Village, NYC
Group:
2011 15 x 15: 15th Anniversary Exhibition
Rush Arts Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
Beneath The Pavement The Beach
Paradise Row, Chelsea, London, England
2010 American Ship (A merry Kinship)
A Juneteenth Jubilee Curated by SOL’SAX, Junto, Bushwick Brooklyn
2007 A Jamaica, Queens Thing: Rap and the Crack Era in South Jamaica
The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning Queens NY
For the Love of the Game: Race and Sport in America
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture New Haven CT
SOL’SAX and Dread Scott: Life, Liberty and Pursuit...
Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State University NH
2006 The Pulse of New Brooklyn: A review of Contemporary art in New York
MoCADA Brooklyn NY
2005 Make It Now
Sculpture Center, Long Island City, Queens
2004 Open House: Working in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Armory show
Kenny Schachter Contemporary
2003 Armory show
Kenny Schachter Contemporary
Scope
Silverstein Gallery, Miami
Confrontation or Commentary: the Role of Political Art in Society
Nathan Cummings Foundation, Midtown, NYC
This is Lagos: Yabis Night, Music and Fela
Skoto Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
2002 I Love New York
Galeria Ferran Cano, Barcelona, Spain
Bird’s Eye View
Grand Army Plaza Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Tensionisms
Kenny Schacter’s Rove, West Village, NYC
Shine
An Internet Gallery for Amnesty International and Downtown Arts Festival
The Black Arts FestivalT
he Puck Building, Soho, NYC
2001 Bigger than Hip Hop
Rush Arts, Chelsea, NYC
2000 Jackin ‘n’ Robin Sons
Downtown Arts Festival, Chelsea, NYC
New York Now
The Museum of the City of New York, El Barrio, NYC
The Black Arts Festival
The Puck Building, Soho, NYC
Existence
Silverstein Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
Ypay2K
Trans Hudson Gallery, West Village, NYC
1999 The Ecstatic
Trans Hudson, West Village, NYC
Paradise 8
Exit Art, Soho, NY
Rhythm, pattern, Color: the Drum
Grand Army Plaza Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Pavement: Inside/Outside
Martinez Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Straight No Chaser
Puffin Room, Noho, NY
1998 The 1998 Challenge Exhibition
Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1996 National Black Arts Festival (Invitational)
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Bead Body and Soul (Art and Light in the Yoruba Universe)
UCLA,Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA
(traveling exhibition arriving at Studio Museum in Harlem in June 2000)
Social History Show V
Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, Bronx, NY
1995 Two by Two, M.F.A. Thesis Show
Yale University Art School Gallery, New Haven, CT
1994 Tenth Anniversary Outdoor Sculpture Show
Socrates Sculpture Garden, Long Island City, NY
1992 Sankofa
Annext, West Village, NYC
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS
2008 Halsey St Station on the J train Permanent Public Commission “Art’s for Transit”
2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture
2004 Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture
2001 MTA Arts for Transit (public art commission for Halsey St. subway station)
1996-1997 Artist in Residence Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
1995 Rockefeller Traveling Grant
Yale International Sculptor award
1994 Phillip Morris Fellow
1994-1996 College Arts Association Graduate Fellow
1992-1993 Yale Sculpture Scholarship
Artist in Residence Bronx Council of the Arts at Longwood Arts Project
1993 Ruth Gutman Memorial Honor for the Excellence in Sculpture:
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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Grace, n. - simple elegance or refinement of movement
Grace Period - an extended period granted as a special favor
The Three Graces (Greek Mythology) - charm, grace, and beauty
Opened in 2006, Grace Exhibition Space is devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists whether emerging, mid-career or established. Our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced and our mission is the glorification of performance art.
Grace Exhibition Space presents over 30 curated live performance art exhibitions each year, showcasing new work by more than 400 performance artists from across the United States and the world since 2006.
Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art Space IRS tax-exempt 501(c)3 status in 2015.
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