ABOUT.

The juxtaposition of two artistic works has often been used as a way to help build understanding around process, content, and form. For children, learning about the world by comparing and contrasting two or more seemingly disparate things helps them develop the tools to comprehend the world around them. In Combinations, we have a selection of artists that not only leverage the juxtapositions of various materials/processes/concepts, but offer an opportunity to recontextualize their practice by pairing them directly with other artists, leading to compelling combinations.

Featuring a selection of works by:
Elia Alba
Nicole Awai
Alteronce Gumby
Forrest Kirk
Tyrone Mitchell
Sable Elyse Smith
Chris Watts
Ye Qin Zhu

This exhibition is co-curated by Damien Davis and Alaina Simone.

 
 
 
 

Alaina Simone, co-curator

Alaina Simone has produced and curated internationally recognized exhibitions with corresponding educational programming with leading emerging, mid-career and established contemporary artists, including Howardena Pindell, Frank Bowling RA, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov,Ed Clark, Barbara Nessim, Rashaad Newsome, Serkan Ozkaya and David Antonio Cruz, among many others. Her work includes working with artists’ estates, such as those of Merton Simpson, Allan Stone and James VanDerZee, to name a few.

Simone has led activations at international art fairs, including Art Dubai (Dubai, UAE), MECA (San Juan, PR), SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York, NY), Volta (Basel, CH/New York, NY, Prizm (Miami, FL) and Untitled Art (Miami, FL). In addition, Simone is the founding producer for two distinct new curatorial platforms: Take FIVE (T/5), is site-specific and immersive multi-venue installation and performance exhibition series in the Caribbean; and. PRVT VW SoHo (Private View), is a nomadic pop-up exhibition series launched its first iteration at the private home of Verbier 3-D Co-Founder Madeleine Paternot in 2018.

Simone’s exhibitions have appeared in leading publications, including The New York Times, Art in America, Modern Painters, Art Forum, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, Artsy, The New Yorker, Whitehot Magazine, Art Newspaper and significant international contemporary art media outlets.

https://www.alainasimone.com/