Exhibition
May 14–September 27, 2024

Crystal Yayra Anthony: A Glimpse of Us

Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 14, 6–8pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) presents A Glimpse of Us, the first solo exhibition in the United States of the work of Crystal Yayra Anthony. This presentation debuts a new group of paintings made by the artist during her recent residency at ISCP.

In these vibrant, expressive portraits, Anthony captures unguarded moments from everyday life. While initially known for rendering her subjects in the nude, in her latest works she explores another form of intimacy: the deeply felt connections to her friends in her hometown of Accra, Ghana. When creating these paintings in New York, far from family and friends, Anthony was overcome by profound feelings of nostalgia. Drawing upon memories and a personal archive of cell phone video footage, she depicts tender and lighthearted scenes of her closely-knit community.

Anthony’s figures inhabit real-life settings infused with enigmatic elements—a dreamy purple interior unites three of the paintings, and in one large-scale work, the artist appears against a lush landscape with a candy-hued sunset. Brushy passages of sensuous color are combined with lyrical finger painting, a technique Anthony began exploring when looking at African rock art. Guided in part by the mentorship of Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo, she has developed her own stylized mark-making to add depth to her figures and celebrate Black identity. For Anthony, her candid portraits convey private instances in which she and her peers are freed from the societal pressures and expectations frequently placed upon them in Ghana.

Crystal Yayra Anthony is a self-taught artist based in Accra, Ghana. She was a resident at ISCP from December 1, 2023 to February 29, 2024. Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries around the world including Kunsthalle Krems, Austria; PM/AM Gallery, London; Dot Ateliers, Accra, Ghana; Gallery OCA, London; and Mitochondria Gallery, Houston, Texas.

This exhibition is curated by Melinda Lang, ISCP’s Director of Programs and Exhibitions.

Crystal Yayra Anthony: A Glimpse of Us is supported by Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy; Dennis Elliott Founder’s Fund; Hartfield Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; James Rosenquist Foundation; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
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Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email Veronica Sanchez at vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.

Opening Reception: May 14, 2024

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Crystal Yayra Anthony

Crystal Yayra Anthony, Game Nights Charades II, 2024, acrylic, oil stick, oil, and pastel on canvas, 74 × 74 in. (187.96 × 187.96 cm)

Crystal Yayra Anthony: A Glimpse of Us, installation view, 2024, ISCP's project space. Photo by Marin Parsekian

Crystal Yayra Anthony, A Glimpse of Us, 2024, acrylic, oil stick, and pastel on cavas. Photo by Marin Parsekian

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

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Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

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ISCP Talk
April 30, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm

Artists at Work: Cullen Washington Jr. in conversation with David Max Horowitz

For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Cullen Washington Jr. will be joined by curator David Max Horowitz. Washington will present on his painting practice and speak with Horowitz about the relationship between his works and the legacies of abstraction, the centuries-old tradition of using light as subject matter, and finding inspiration from the natural world. Their conversation will begin with a discussion about Washington’s thinking around matter and light in his paintings, which he calls terra-chroma. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Cullen Washington Jr. is a New York-based artist originally from Louisiana. He creates abstract paintings that convey the feeling of the divine in nature. Washington has exhibited work at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan; Queens Museum, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas; Saatchi Gallery, London; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Washington is the first recipient of ISCP’s Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency.

David Max Horowitz is an Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where he organizes exhibitions and supports the management of the museum’s collection. He was the curator of Jean Dubuffet: Ardent Celebration (2022) and Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction (2019–20), as well as co-curator of R. H. Quaytman + ×, Chapter 34 (2018–19). He was also part of the curatorial team on Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (2018–19), Agnes Martin (2016–17), Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi (2017–20), and Guggenheim Collection: Early Modernism (2016–17).

This program is supported by Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; Hartfield Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; James Rosenquist Foundation; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
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Accessibility information: Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email Veronica Sanchez at vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.

6:30–7:30pm

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Cullen Washington Jr.

Cullen Washington Jr., Primer 24, 2024, iron oxide, oxidized slate, ochre earth pigment, mica, graphite, carbon, acrylic and medium on paper, 31 × 47 in. (78.74 × 119.38 cm)

Cullen Washington Jr., Primer 23, 2024, iron oxide, oxidized slate, ochre earth pigment, mica, graphite, carbon, acrylic and medium on paper, 31 × 47 in. (78.74 × 119.38 cm)

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024

2024 Spring Open Studios

Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, 6–9pm
Open Hours: Saturday, April 13, 1–7pm

The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Spring Open Studios is a presentation of international contemporary art organized by the 35 artists and curators from 27 countries currently in residence. Guest speaker Christopher Y. Lew will make remarks at 7pm during the opening reception in ISCP’s second floor lounge.

This event is free and open to the public.

Twice a year, ISCP offers the public access to private artists’ and curators’ studios to view artwork and share one-on-one conversations. This spring, ISCP invites the public to engage in dialogue around contemporary art with arts professionals from across the globe. Concentrated in a three-story postindustrial loft building on the edge of Bushwick, ISCP supports the creative advancement of residents, with a robust program of individual workspaces and professional benefits.

Ahmad Fuad Osman: Archipelagic Alchemy, an exhibition that addresses the history of the empire by looking at relationships between seas and islands, will be on view in the first floor project space. Presenting an installation titled Run for Manhattan, by Ahmad Fuad Osman, this exhibition is curated by Carlos Quijon, Jr. for ISCP’s first floor project space. The installation gathers archival clippings, popular culture materials, and a newly commissioned speculative video. All pertain to an episode of colonial history involving an exchange of islands in the seventeenth century between two colonial powers. The English traded Pulau Run, one of the Spice Islands, present-day Moluccas, in exchange for New Amsterdam, present-day Manhattan, traded by the Dutch.

In addition, Noa Yekutieli: No Longer — Not Yet, a solo exhibition by 2023 alumna Noa Yekutieli and curated by Jenée-Daria Strand, will be on view in the second floor gallery. Using wood, fabric, and her signature manual paper-cutting technique, Yekutieli creates striking renderings of real and imagined scenes, densely populated with sprawling flora, repeating patterns, and destroyed landscapes. For this exhibition, the artist transforms the gallery into a series of stage-like installations that relate to memory and the notion of belonging. The works reflect on cycles of destruction, loss, and trauma, themes that Yekutieli frequently contemplated while growing up in Israel and that are even more palpable for her today.

Open Studios participating artists and curators:

Alchemyverse (Bicheng Liang and Yixuan Shao) (China/United States); Muneera Al-Buainain (Qatar); Bianca Argimón (Spain/France); Alper Aydin (Turkey); James Beckett (South Africa/The Netherlands/United States); Laura Bernstein (United States); Feng-Yi Chu (Taiwan); Mario D’Souza (India); Valentina Furian (Italy); Mandy Gehrt (Germany); Insoon Ha (South Korea/Canada); Huang I-Hsiang (Taiwan); Björn Kämmerer (Austria/Germany); Winter Gyeoul Kim (South Korea); Joiri Minaya (United States/Dominican Republic) ; Sandra Mujinga (Norway); Carolina Muñoz (Chile); Azita Moradkhani (Iran/United States); Raffaela Naldi Rossano (Italy/Greece); Eugene Hannah Park (South Korea); Tamen Pérez (Costa Rica/United States); Antonis Pittas (Greece/The Netherlands); Joshua Thaddeus Rainer (United States); Hans Rosenström (Finland); Keli Safia Maksud (Kenya/Tanzania); Yoshie Sakai (United States); Tora Schultz (Sweden/Denmark); Farkhondeh Shahroudi (Iran/Germany); Oriane Stender (United States); Jeppe Ugelvig (Denmark); Alma Louise Visscher (Canada); Cullen Washington Jr. (United States); Malte Zander (Germany/Austria); zeropowercut/Piyush Kashyap (India)

ISCP thanks the following residency sponsors:

Alberta Foundation for the Arts; Alice and Lawrence Weiner; Beca Arte, CCU – Corporación Cultural La Araucana; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Canada Council for the Arts; Danish Arts Foundation; Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture; Danna and Ed Ruscha; DOOSAN Art Center; Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria; Fire Station – Qatar Museums; Goethe-Institut New York; Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; Hartfield Foundation; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; IASPIS – The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists; Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation; Italian Cultural Institute of New York; Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation; Jane Farver Memorial Fund; Jerome Foundation; KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen; La Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon; Milton and Sally Avery Foundation; Ministry of Culture, Taiwan; Mondriaan Fund; National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez, District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; SAHA Association; The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University; The Kettering Family Foundation; Toby Devan Lewis; Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts and Saastamoinen Foundation; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; Vision Fund; William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

This program is also generously supported, in part, by Austrian Cultural Forum New York; Artis; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York; Consulate General of Spain in New York; Consulate General of Sweden in New York; Evelyn Toll Family Foundation; Google; Grimm Artisanal Ales; Hartfield Foundation; Materials for the Arts; James Rosenquist Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez, District 34; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York; The Woodman Family Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

In addition to the many individuals who support ISCP, the members of Director’s Circle are also thanked for their largesse: Anne Altchek, Barbara van Beuren, Samar Maziad, and Laurie Sprayregen.
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Please note that the entrance to ISCP has seven steps and a ramp, which is ADA compliant. There are seven artist studios and one exhibition space which can be accessed on the first floor of ISCP. There is an accessible bathroom on the first floor at the end of the hallway, up one step, where the artist studios are located. To access the second floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 22 steps. The second floor has 22 artist and curator studios, one exhibition space, and a lounge where remarks by our guest speaker will take place. To access the third floor there is a staircase with a grab bar installed on the right side with 24 steps. The third floor has five artist and curator studios. ISCP can access a freight elevator to bring visitors between the first and second floors on request.

ISCP can offer two reserved parking spaces on request for people with disabilities. Please email vsanchez@iscp-nyc.org to request a parking space and/or freight elevator usage.

Opening Reception: Apr 12, 2024, 6–9pm

Open Hours: 1–7pm

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