Regen Projects announces representation of Glasgow-based artist Alberta Whittle. The gallery celebrates Alberta Whittle: Learning a new punctuation for hope in times of disaster with an opening art party on March 16, 2024, from 6-8pm. The exhibition runs through May 18, 2024.
Alberta Whittle
Alberta’s creative practice is motivated by the desire to manifest self-compassion and collective care as key methods in battling anti-Blackness. Her multi-media practice encompasses drawing, digital collage, film, sculpture, performance, and writing, through which she develops a visual, oral, and textual language that questions accepted Western constructs of history and society. She often choreographs her public presentations as interactive installations, speaking to the site in which they are being presented and prioritizing questions of self-care and compassion, while considering the historic legacies and contemporary expressions of anti-Blackness, colonialism, and migration.
Alberta’s exhibition at Regen Projects exemplifies the artist’s interdisciplinary approach to cultivating community and care as an antidote to catastrophes, from ecological collapse to the legacy of anti-Blackness. The exhibition presents Lagareh – The Last Born, 2022 for the first time in North America beside a suite of new paintings and sculptural works.
Alberta Whittle, Learning a new punctuation for hope in times of disaster
Blending tender portraiture with more abstract passages and symbols, Alberta’s paintings reflect her own lived and embodied experience. This includes a desire to cultivate moments of rest, reflection, as well as kinship with and for others. Often built atop rich, jewel-like grounds, her paintings capture both histories and memories. The artist experienced a profound moment inspired while in Nigeria, walking the same paths traversed by enslaved peoples on their way to the African coast. Through watery fields and layered, sumptuous juxtapositions, the paintings intertwine these histories with portraits of friends, family memories, and photographs.
On view: March 16, 2024 – May 18, 2024
What: Alberta Whittle: Learning a new punctuation for hope in times of disaster
Where: Regen Projects, 6750 Santa Monica Blvd., LA 90038
When: Running through May 18, 2024
Website: https://www.regenprojects.com
