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LACMA “Imagining Black Diasporas.” From near to right: Arielle Bobb-Willis; Martine Syms; Awol Erizku; Melanie Cervantes; Widline Cadet; Helina Metaferia; Chioma Ebinama; Kambui Olujimi; Edgar Arceneaux; Samuel de Saboia; Patrisse Cullors; Sandra Brewster; Michael Queenland; Tariku Shiferaw; Tami Outterbridge, representing her precocious father, John Outterbridge.
(Stefanie Keenan; Courtesy of Museum Associates / LACMA)
April 11, 2025 3 AM PT
This peculiar radical representation successful commemoration of LACMA’s momentous accumulation “Imagining Black Diasporas” volition beryllium printed successful Image’s forthcoming April issue. Scroll done for a personalized curator’s enactment and preview of the artworks connected view.
Artists gathered astatine LACMA for a representation commemorating their inclusion successful “Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics,” connected presumption done July 27. During the photograph shoot, determination was a peculiar petition to perceive to Roberta Flack (the vocalist had died 2 days earlier). The full radical sang on arsenic “Killing Me Softly With His Song” echoed done the galleries.
The accumulation introduces 42 caller acquisitions for LACMA arsenic portion of the museum’s ongoing enactment to grow its programme and postulation of creation by African-descendant artists. It’s been an grant to bring this accumulation to beingness with the enactment of 60 multigenerational artists based astir the world. At the opening, artists caught up and met for the archetypal time, perchance creating caller diasporic networks of speech and connectivity.
—Dhyandra Lawson, Andy Song associate curator of Contemporary Art astatine the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Arielle Bobb-Willis
Arielle Bobb-Willis, “New Jersey,” 2019.
(Courtesy of the creator and Museum Associates / LACMA; Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund)
Helina Metaferia
Helina Metaferia, “Headdress XVIII,” 2021.
(Courtesy of the creator and Museum Associates / LACMA; Promised acquisition of Mark Dinner and Nana Quagraine)
Edgar Arceneaux
Edgar Arceneaux, “Blocking Out The Sun,” 2004, installation photograph.
(Courtesy of the creator and Museum Associates / LACMA)
John Outterbridge
John Outterbridge, “Asafetida Yoke,” 2008.
(Museum Associates / LACMA; Courtesy of the Estate of John Outterbridge; Purchased with funds provided by the Pasadena Art Alliance)
John Outterbridge
Michael Queenland, Untitled 1-9, 2005.
(Courtesy of the creator and Museum Associates / LACMA; Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund)
Patrice Cullors
Patrisse Cullors, “Oturupon Meji,” 2023.
(Yubo Dong of photostudio; Courtesy of the artist, Charlie James Gallery Los Angeles, and Museum Associates / LACMA; acquisition of Charlie James Gallery)
Kambui Olujimi
Kambui Olujimi, “In Your Absence The Skies Are All The Same,” 2014, integer image
(Courtesy of the artist, Museum Associates / LACMA; Purchased with funds from the Ralph M. Parsons Fund)
Sandra Brewster
Sandra Brewster, “Blur,” 2020.
(Courtesy of the creator and Olga Korper Gallery; Museum Associates / LACMA; purchased with funds provided by Contemporary @ LACMA, 2022)
Tariku Shiferaw
Tariku Shiferaw, “Water No Get Enemy (Fela Kuti),” 2019.
(Courtesy of the artist, Addis Fine Art & Galerie Lelong & Co., Museum Associates / LACMA; Mark Dinner and Nana Quagrine, New York, Brooklyn)
Martine Syms
Martine Syms, “Vertical Horizontal Extended, Vertical Elevated Oblique, A Thread Or Line That Holds Things Together,” 2015.
(Courtesy of the creator and Museum Associates / LACMA; purchased with funds provided by AHAN: Studio Forum, 2016 Art Here and Now purchase)
Awol Erizku
Awol Erizku, “Ramadan Drawing April 1 - May 1,” 2022.
(Brica Wilcox; Courtesy of the creator and Museum Associates / LACMA; purchased with funds provided by The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach Directors)
Samuel de Saboia
Samuel de Saboia, “Self Generated Magic Organic Freedom,” 2024.
(Gene Ogami; Courtesy of the creator and Museum Associates / LACMA)
Widline Cadet
![Widline Cadet, “Seremoni Disparisyon #1 (Ritual [Dis]Appearance #1),” 2019.](https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/605340d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3701x4621+0+0/resize/2000x2497!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F90%2F70%2F1598a2234064b18fdf046fd7a184%2Fla-ig-april-2025-lacma-imagining-black-diasporas-widline-cadet.jpg)
Widline Cadet, “Seremoni Disparisyon #1 (Ritual [Dis]Appearance #1),” 2019.
(Widline Cadet; Courtesy of the creator and Museum Associates / LACMA; acquisition of Avo Samuelian and Hector Manuel Gonzalez)
Installation photograph, “Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 15, 2024–July 27, 2025.
(Museum Associates / LACMA)
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