Nicolas Coleman at 1-54 New York 2022
Nicolas Coleman, Les Six (2021), oil on wood panel, 36"x36".
Long Gallery Harlem is proud to represent artists Nicolas Coleman and Preston Sampson at this year’s New York edition of 1-54.
1-54 is an international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. With three editions per year—in London, New York, and Marrakech, and a pop-up fair in Paris—the name of the fair, 1-54, draws reference to the fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent.
1-54 New York will take place at Harlem Parish, a former church built in 1897 and transformed into an events space in 2017. The fair will be accompanied by 1-54 Forum, the fair’s acclaimed program of talks, performances, and screenings that explore the work and practice of artists from Africa and its diaspora. Novella Ford, Associate Director for Public Programs and Exhibitions at Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has been selected as Curator.
Artist on View
Photo: Courtesy the artist.
Nicolas Lambelet Coleman is a painter based in New York. His work focuses on portraiture, with an emphasis on self-portraiture. "From the time I began painting and drawing, I have made self-portraits. As my style, technique, and medium change, the one constant has been my effort to reimagine my image through my art. It has been my way of understanding my place in the cultures, spaces, and situations that I travel through. Growing up in the South to a blended Black and Swiss family, much of my identity was constructed through a process of self-invention to which my art was central," says Coleman. More broadly, his work aims to be a subversion of the boundaries that we have constructed around identity and the tribal nature of what it means to be human. Nicolas is originally from North Carolina and studied Visual Arts and Political Science at Duke University.
Dates
May 19–22, 2022
Public Opening Hours
Friday, May 20: 12am – 8pm
Saturday, May 21: 12am – 7pm
Sunday, May 22: 12am – 5pm
Location
Harlem Parish
258 W 118th St
New York, NY 10026
Booth One
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Long Gallery Harlem
2073 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Blvd.
New York, NY 10027
Artist
Nicolas Coleman
Artwork Available for Purchase:
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