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Just Above Midtown : changing spaces

Title

Just Above Midtown : changing spaces / edited by Thomas (T.) Jean Lax and Lilia Rocio Taboada ; in collaboration with Linda Goode Bryant ; contributions by Eric Booker, Brandon Eng, Thelma Golden, Linda Goode Bryant, Marielle Ingram, Kellie Jones, Yelena Keller, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Legacy Russell, Lilia Rocio Taboada.

Publication

New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art : The Studio Museum in Harlem, [2022]
New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK, D.A.P., [2022]
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183 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

Just Above Midtown, or JAM, was an art gallery and self-described laboratory for experimentation led by Linda Goode Bryant that foregrounded African American artists and artists of color. Open from 1974 to 1986, it was a place where an expansive idea of contemporary art flourished and debate was cultivated. The gallery offered early opportunities for artists recognized as pivotal figures in late-20th-century art--including David Hammons, Butch Morris, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady and Howardena Pindell--as well as a nonhierarchical approach to art that welcomed artists without stylistic proscription. Published in conjunction with the first museum exhibition to focus on this gallery and its ongoing impact, this book showcases rarely seen material from JAM's history--artworks, ephemera and photographs--that collectively document the gallery's communal and programmatic activities. It includes essays that contextualize JAM and consider its legacy, a conversation between Goode Bryant and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, a complete exhibition chronology written by MoMA and Studio Museum staff with nearly 50 annotated entries, and excerpts from oral histories with JAM staff and artists conducted especially for this project.

Alternative Title

Changing spaces
JAM

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Interviews.

Note

Catalog of an exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 9, 2022-February 18, 2023.
Includes oral histories by Horace Brockington, Gylbert Coker, Pat Cummings, Kathleen Goncharov, Maren Hassinger, Janet Olivia Henry, AC Hudgins, Senga Nengudi, Lowery Stokes Sims, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Faythe Weaver, Tony Whitfield, and Randy Williams and chronologies by Eric Booker, Brandon Eng, Marielle Ingram, Yelena Keller, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Legacy Russell, Lilia Rocio Taboada.
Artists include: Bimal Banerjee ; Dawoud Bey ; Cathey Billian ; Camille Billops ; Willie Birch ; Sydney Blum ; Rolando Briseño ; Vivian Browne ; Barbara Chase-Riboud ; Albert Chong ; Martin Cohen ; Dan Concholar ; Houston Conwill ; Blondell Cummings (with Senga Nengudi and Yasunao Tone) ; Charles Daniel Dawson ; Marcy R. Edelstein ; Wendy Ward Ehlers ; Peter Feldstein ; Tom Finkelpearl ; Howard Finster ; Susan Fitzsimmons ; David Hammons ; Maren Hassinger ; Cynthia Hawkins ; Palmer Hayden ; Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds ; Janet Olivia Henry ; Suzanne Jackson ; Walter C. Jackson ; Noah Jemison ; G. Peter Jemison ; Jasper Johns ; Nina Kuo ; Norman Lewis ; Rosemary Mayer ; Valerie Maynard ; George Mingo ; Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe ; Senga Nengudi ; Senga Nengudi (with Cheryl Banks-Smith and Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris) ; Lorraine O'Grady ; Sandra Payne ; Howardena Pindell ; Liliana Porter ; Robert Rauschenberg ; Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds ; Jorge Luis Rodriguez ; Betye Saar ; Raymond Saunders ; Coreen Simpson ; Lorna Simpson ; Russ Thompson ; Randy Williams.

Contents

Director's foreword / Thelma Golden and Glenn D. Lowry -- Can JAM be JAM at MoMA?: a conversation between Linda Goode Bryant and Thelma Golden -- Up in the air / Thomas (T.) Jean Lax -- The world according to Linda Goode Bryant / Kellie Jones -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Contributors.

Call Number

JQG 23-419

ISBN

9781633451377
1633451372

LCCN

2022941659

OCLC

1304243501
1304243501

Title

Publisher

New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art : The Studio Museum in Harlem, [2022]

Distributor

New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK, D.A.P., [2022]

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Goode-Bryant, Linda, editor, contributor, interviewee.

Lax, Thomas J., editor, contributor.

Taboada, Lilia Rocio, editor, contributor.

Booker, Eric, contributor.

Eng, Brandon, contributor.

Golden, Thelma, contributor, interviewer.

Ingram, Marielle, contributor.

Jones, Kellie, contributor.

Keller, Yelena, contributor.

Russell, Legacy, contributor.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution, publisher.

Studio Museum in Harlem, publisher.

Other Standard Identifier

MoMA 2505

Research Call Number

JQG 23-419

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