This exhibition showcases NOMA’s recent acquisitions of modern and contemporary art and celebrates the museum’s enduring commitment to championing the work of emerging and underrepresented artists, especially from the American South. Bringing together new works by both locally and nationally recognized artists, the exhibition spotlights new acquisitions made possible by the Leah Chase Art Purchase Fund, created to honor the New Orleans chef and civil rights activist. In the exhibition, these dedicated new acquisitions by McArthur Binion, Leonardo Drew, and Mildred Thompson join works by LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Propeller Group, Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, Dan Tague, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others, to offer vital new perspectives on pressing issues in contemporary art and culture.
DNA: Black Painting V
2015
McArthur Binion
Oil paint stick, graphite and paper on board
84 x 84 inches
Museum purchase, Leah Chase Fund, 2016.20
The Garden Party
2016
Toyin Ojih Odutola
Charcoal, pastel, and pencil on paper
Proposed Museum Purchase, E-2017-10.1
Detail from Taneesha II
1999
Dawoud Bey
Polacolor, ER print
24 x 60 inches (triptych)
Gift of Eric Ceputis and David Williams
Number 59S
2016
Leonardo Drew
Wood and black paint
98 x 103 x 24 inches
Museum purchase, Leah Chase Fund and Robert Gordy Fund, 2016.16.1
Campaign for Braddock Hospital (Save Our Community Hospital)
2011
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Portfolio of 12 prints, photolithographs and silkscreen, wooden frames
20 x 17 inches
Museum purchase, Joel Weinstock Fund, 2016.55.1-12
Achromatic Warning
2016
Dan Tague
Gesso primer and graphite on canvas
78 x 64 inches
Gift of Charles L. Whited, Jr., 2016.2
Untitled (Ella on Silk)
2014
Carrie Mae Weems
Diptych painted on fabric dye on silk charmeuse, stretched over cotton on support, with black tray frames, coroplas backing, no glazing
44 x 34 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches (left panel) and 15 x 12 x 2 inches (right panel)
Gift of Thomas Coleman, 2014.66.a-b