https://coleakers.net Cole Akers Wed, 27 May 2026 10:35:10 +0000 https://coleakers.net en https://coleakers.net/Home Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:35:02 +0000 Cole Akers https://coleakers.net/Home Cole Akers produces exhibitions, performances, public programs, and partnerships across the fields of art, design, and architecture. Working from New York and Los Angeles, he is currently Curator &amp; Associate Director of Special Projects at The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. https://coleakers.net/Everyday-Nature Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:45:29 +0000 Cole Akers https://coleakers.net/Everyday-Nature Everyday Nature Salon Hannam, Seoul,&nbsp; September 4-14, 2024 Everyday Nature brings together works by David Hartt, Harold Mendez, and Rim Park that investigate our contemporary relationship with images and the environment. The three featured artists use images as raw material—in the same manner that metal, wood, or clay can be shaped—to address our media-saturated lives. Set against the dramatic environmental and societal shifts exacerbated by climate change, these artists aim to draw viewers back into the world. Their works address the beauty and fragility of where we live and our intimate relationships with place. By focusing on sections of foliage, common houseplants, and other organic forms, Hartt, Mendez, and Park create deeply poetic works imbued with elegance and urgency, ingeniously spanning mediums, ranging from drawing and etching to sculpture and tapestry. Co-curated by Christopher Y. Lew, Cole Akers, and Jee Young Maeng for C/O: Curatorial Office. Organized by LIFEPLUS. <img width="1425" height="939" width_o="1425" height_o="939" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/186a96369d77826d5668e3c8d68c2252c92ffd672bf6b49830624857a29649ef/Hartt_1.png" data-mid="217986444" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/186a96369d77826d5668e3c8d68c2252c92ffd672bf6b49830624857a29649ef/Hartt_1.png" /><img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be21021c319b6ecda7792b604cb0f98f63fceb525df0bd77b0f5f9b309136f27/exhibition_a-3.jpg" data-mid="217985733" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be21021c319b6ecda7792b604cb0f98f63fceb525df0bd77b0f5f9b309136f27/exhibition_a-3.jpg" /> <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3217040e074244c0b7c62d84b53bae0eec090fe522598bdb8eafdea067e11ca/exhibition_a-4.jpg" data-mid="217985734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3217040e074244c0b7c62d84b53bae0eec090fe522598bdb8eafdea067e11ca/exhibition_a-4.jpg" /> https://coleakers.net/Ryan-Preciado-Diary-of-a-Fly Wed, 27 May 2026 10:35:10 +0000 Cole Akers https://coleakers.net/Ryan-Preciado-Diary-of-a-Fly Ryan Preciado: Diary of a Fly Hollyhock House, January 22 to April 25, 2026In this exhibition , Ryan Preciado’s sculptures and textiles contend with the rhythmic patterning of Frank Lloyd Wright’s abstracted hollyhock motif that appears across Hollyhock House’s furniture and concrete facade. The exhibition is titled after a late-1930s musical composition by Béla Bartók that imitates the frenzied pace of a fly. The music’s repetitive motifs and observation of the everyday resonates with Preciado’s approach to his site-responsive exhibition, which builds on Hollyhock House’s one-hundred year history as a platform for artists and experimentation. Preciado frequently includes the work of other practitioners he admires in his exhibitions. In this context, he invited composer and mathematician Spencer Gerhardt to compose new music for a performance on Hollyhock House’s piano; a recording is available to accompany the exhibition. A rotating presentation of works by artists including Matt Connors was also be on view. For Preciado, these gestures resonate with Aline Barnsdall’s vision for Hollyhock House as a center for creativity, community, and experimentation. Diary of a Fly is curated by Cole Akers. Special thanks to Karma, New York and Los Angeles.Selected Press New York TimesArtforum Family StyleArt Newspaper (Feature) Art Newspaper (Must See)Wallpaper The Grand Tourist New York Magazine Secret Strategist <img width="5792" height="8688" width_o="5792" height_o="8688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b32f87c4de8317022180b83e22dcd151b47e8c938a92c408c37621613650d64/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-4Q6A8947.jpg" data-mid="250110796" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b32f87c4de8317022180b83e22dcd151b47e8c938a92c408c37621613650d64/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-4Q6A8947.jpg" /><img width="8676" height="5784" width_o="8676" height_o="5784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a533b68a083481abd88e806708e98bbdbab404c61fe0bc728313a7d45f45beeb/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-4Q6A8993.jpg" data-mid="250110797" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a533b68a083481abd88e806708e98bbdbab404c61fe0bc728313a7d45f45beeb/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-4Q6A8993.jpg" /><img width="8676" height="5784" width_o="8676" height_o="5784" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef83ea87d4939f629131d349a242622b4cc221065a70328ebbe1518e137c8f05/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-4Q6A9445-2.jpg" data-mid="250110799" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ef83ea87d4939f629131d349a242622b4cc221065a70328ebbe1518e137c8f05/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-4Q6A9445-2.jpg" /><img width="5792" height="8688" width_o="5792" height_o="8688" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d68bb400ca97a9e3f254e02cd194681535a923e57561ef70ce478216474bab7e/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-4Q6A9218.jpg" data-mid="250110798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d68bb400ca97a9e3f254e02cd194681535a923e57561ef70ce478216474bab7e/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-4Q6A9218.jpg" /> https://coleakers.net/David-Hartt-A-Colored-Garden Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:45:41 +0000 Cole Akers https://coleakers.net/David-Hartt-A-Colored-Garden David Hartt&nbsp;A Colored Garden The Glass House,&nbsp; April 2021 - November 2023 A Colored Garden encompasses a circular, forty-foot-wide garden designed by David Hartt and an exhibition of nine paintings by Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923).&nbsp; Reflecting on The Glass House’s transformation from a storied private home to a publicly accessible institution, the project considers the site’s potential to foreground new possibilities for social, political, and cultural engagement. The selection of flowers in the garden corresponds to the floral paintings of Porter, a Connecticut-based artist who was among the first Black Americans to exhibit his work nationally and the only such artist that has been recorded to specialize in still lifes at the turn of the century.In an 1883 letter to Mark Twain, Porter wrote, “I am aware that there are a goodly number of my [Connecticut] friends and others who are anxious to see how the colored artist will make out, but this is not the motive which impresses me. There is something of more importance, the colored people—my people—as a race I am interested in, and my success will only add to others who have already shown wherein they are capable, the same as other men.”Hartt selected the title for this work—A Colored Garden—as a provocation that signals Porter’s identification as a “colored artist” as well as the garden’s capacity to function as a metaphor for race within the landscape.Et in Arcadia Ego is a related film that that reflects on the Arcadian ideals represented in the site’s landscape. The film centers on a performance of new music by cellist and composer Tomeka Reid. In the film, she wears a mask designed by Hartt that is reminiscent of a work by Oskar Schlemmer, a polymath associated with the Bauhaus whose work Philip Johnson collected and donated to The Museum of Modern Art. The mask also functions as a vessel that occasionally holds cuttings from the garden on top of the dining table in the Glass House. Curated by Cole Akers Selected Press ArtforumConnecticut Post New York Review of Architecture PIN-UP Metropolis Commisioned Texts Breath of Life: The Art of Charles Ethan Porter by Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Gardens of David Whitney by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Independent curator and author of The Philip Johnson Glass House: An Architect in the Garden <img width="2249" height="3000" width_o="2249" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f476ca120c15bdc0e2a2d5d2f21049db255f1206ef2e8be51c89f19e114f5b9e/David-Hartt-A-Colored-Garden-Fall-2022-8.jpg" data-mid="156926886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f476ca120c15bdc0e2a2d5d2f21049db255f1206ef2e8be51c89f19e114f5b9e/David-Hartt-A-Colored-Garden-Fall-2022-8.jpg" /><img width="2180" height="3000" width_o="2180" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b12c35503a971bc9b99680b5965ecc83553ecd4055704e25acf74143c1217f1/Artifacts-Trio-and-David-Hartt-event-22-1.jpg" data-mid="156927104" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b12c35503a971bc9b99680b5965ecc83553ecd4055704e25acf74143c1217f1/Artifacts-Trio-and-David-Hartt-event-22-1.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2015" width_o="3000" height_o="2015" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/605f54a91affdcf17d574e49594f5811e00d011b10a2fc9d7e631f5f685a5543/9_Charles-Ethan-Porter-at-The-Glass-House-3-1-1.jpg" data-mid="156927144" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/605f54a91affdcf17d574e49594f5811e00d011b10a2fc9d7e631f5f685a5543/9_Charles-Ethan-Porter-at-The-Glass-House-3-1-1.jpg" /><img width="1457" height="1800" width_o="1457" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e1fc9a040a5fd9bbfb5f1eec42e0fc9dc92d468dee7380d252dd59e3b219cfe7/Porter--Untitled-Still-Life-of-Peonies-in-a-Vase.jpg" data-mid="114261932" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e1fc9a040a5fd9bbfb5f1eec42e0fc9dc92d468dee7380d252dd59e3b219cfe7/Porter--Untitled-Still-Life-of-Peonies-in-a-Vase.jpg" /><img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b95b87e342679cd7ce6a195647dde54772e7e8142cb19a44fe27c00e762957e/David-Hartt-A-Colored-Garden-61-3.jpg" data-mid="114261921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b95b87e342679cd7ce6a195647dde54772e7e8142cb19a44fe27c00e762957e/David-Hartt-A-Colored-Garden-61-3.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="865" width_o="1600" height_o="865" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6a5e10ce225053a69fecf26a0c08827766815956aa168112db218963250a091/14_Still-from-Et-in-Arcadia-Ego--2022.jpg" data-mid="159896038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6a5e10ce225053a69fecf26a0c08827766815956aa168112db218963250a091/14_Still-from-Et-in-Arcadia-Ego--2022.jpg" /> https://coleakers.net/Moveables Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:53:49 +0000 Cole Akers https://coleakers.net/Moveables Moveables&nbsp; ICA Philadelphia, Aug. 18 - Dec. 17, 2023 Moveables brings together the work of five artists—Jes Fan, Nikita Gale, Hannah Levy, Ken Lum, and Oren Pinhassi—who are rethinking functional design and its intimate relationship to the human body. Whether reminiscent of a living room, lighting rig, toothbrush holder, or chandelier, these artworks invite us to imagine new possibilities for the objects that shape our daily lives, including who they are made for and how they might be used. The word “moveables” refers to any article in a building, such as furniture, that is not fixed in place. Originally developed as a legal term to describe property, the word also playfully implies dynamic motion and fluidity. This tension between sculpture and theater is suggested through the show’s installation as a series of discrete scenes. The artists’ works probe the tensions between public and private, real and imaginary.&nbsp;Each ensemble invites us to reconsider the constructed world around us, suggesting that design is not only a reflection of who we are and how we are conditioned, but also a proposal for other ways of being. Moveables is co-curated by Alex Klein, Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, The Contemporary Austin, and Cole Akers, Curator and Associate Director of Special Projects, The Glass House. The exhibition is organized by Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Support has been provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Selected Press Frieze <img width="1600" height="1022" width_o="1600" height_o="1022" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e8f78afda08158bf0d2f27412fb02b983a45b0e0a455ae806333e05e7593546/2023_ICA_MOVEABLES_Install_Views-W-4.jpg" data-mid="194934830" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e8f78afda08158bf0d2f27412fb02b983a45b0e0a455ae806333e05e7593546/2023_ICA_MOVEABLES_Install_Views-W-4.jpg" /><img width="1067" height="1600" width_o="1067" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5adc4880db1132dad061a799a455fcecd17aa278d7924c21ddef7d48fbf4f0f0/2023_ICA_MOVEABLES_Install_Views-W-41.jpg" data-mid="194934792" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5adc4880db1132dad061a799a455fcecd17aa278d7924c21ddef7d48fbf4f0f0/2023_ICA_MOVEABLES_Install_Views-W-41.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e22a6f2106864641ff2ce9d2654a2eb1cefcc6de3239f7359e5dcccf7cb03ec6/2023_ICA_MOVEABLES_Install_Views-W-33-1.jpg" data-mid="194934803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e22a6f2106864641ff2ce9d2654a2eb1cefcc6de3239f7359e5dcccf7cb03ec6/2023_ICA_MOVEABLES_Install_Views-W-33-1.jpg" /> <img width="1137" height="1600" width_o="1137" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87f8c024b6f11906b59268262e2f4d23f9bf8112046a44c46d5b1b230deda349/2023_ICA_MOVEABLES_Install_Views-W-53.jpg" data-mid="194935176" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87f8c024b6f11906b59268262e2f4d23f9bf8112046a44c46d5b1b230deda349/2023_ICA_MOVEABLES_Install_Views-W-53.jpg" /> https://coleakers.net/Gerard-Kelly-Modern-Living Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:35:03 +0000 Cole Akers https://coleakers.net/Gerard-Kelly-Modern-Living Gerard &amp; Kelly Modern Living MAK Center for Art and Architecture, January 2016 The Glass House,&nbsp; May 2016 Modern Living, a performance artwork by Gerard &amp; Kelly brought to life in collaboration with Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project, explores themes of queer intimacy and domestic space within legacies of modernist architecture. The project brings into dialogue two homes lived in by the architects who built them — the landmark Schindler House in West Hollywood, California, and Philip Johnson’s Glass House — and marks the first cross-country cooperation between these legendary sites working on a single artist’s project. Working with the nine dancers of LA Dance Project, Gerard &amp; Kelly created a performance score that re-imagines the homes as sites of experiments in living, positing architecture as choreography for relationships.&nbsp; Co-curated by Cole Akers and Kimberli Meyer Selected Press T Magazine W Magazine Frieze Wallpaper <img width="4155" height="2765" width_o="4155" height_o="2765" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0baf8e794b0e2a8f289214bd409c736a2d48f908c42a807781e5c768a351cf7/GK_Modern-Living_04.jpg" data-mid="93051008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0baf8e794b0e2a8f289214bd409c736a2d48f908c42a807781e5c768a351cf7/GK_Modern-Living_04.jpg" /><img width="1540" height="944" width_o="1540" height_o="944" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee330c6980c5f4261c83d19a5c3fe5ed91165ce0fd4b8e29b7f6c69d8bba6f2a/modern-living-07.jpg" data-mid="93051066" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee330c6980c5f4261c83d19a5c3fe5ed91165ce0fd4b8e29b7f6c69d8bba6f2a/modern-living-07.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed18ffc6d47a8129a28baebc22d086842778784805e6a8a3c639a0ec76a2f4b4/GK_Modern-Living_06.jpg" data-mid="93051009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed18ffc6d47a8129a28baebc22d086842778784805e6a8a3c639a0ec76a2f4b4/GK_Modern-Living_06.jpg" /><img width="1280" height="855" width_o="1280" height_o="855" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bf0519ce5f8d8c5f635a6c898a47e8193d15c35ef9955c6271025df71854657/GerardKelly_ModernLiving_8_Easy-Resize.com_.jpg" data-mid="92893210" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0bf0519ce5f8d8c5f635a6c898a47e8193d15c35ef9955c6271025df71854657/GerardKelly_ModernLiving_8_Easy-Resize.com_.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bdbbac0eae17d9486bcdec224e5118fb5b9f19f7f7b4cae6e273f9fdef1f668/GK_Modern-Living_14.jpg" data-mid="93051011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9bdbbac0eae17d9486bcdec224e5118fb5b9f19f7f7b4cae6e273f9fdef1f668/GK_Modern-Living_14.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/188aea3af969dd881992d3ea2b9f9ff703e67126eafe21f196640c72513614ba/GK_Modern-Living_09.jpg" data-mid="93051010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/188aea3af969dd881992d3ea2b9f9ff703e67126eafe21f196640c72513614ba/GK_Modern-Living_09.jpg" /> https://coleakers.net/Jennie-C-Jones-RPM Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:56:14 +0000 Cole Akers https://coleakers.net/Jennie-C-Jones-RPM Jennie C. Jones RPM (revolutions per minute) The Glass House Septmeber to December 2018 Jennie C. Jones: RPM brings together newly commissioned audio collages and works on paper that extend the artist’s ongoing engagement with visual and sonic abstraction. Throughout her work, Jones has mined histories of American Modernism — focusing on Minimalism, avant-garde music, and their corresponding cultural, social and political shifts — in order to highlight the unlikely alliances that emerge among them. Jones describes this approach as “listening as a conceptual practice.” For this commission, Jones inserts two site-responsive audio collages into the Philip Johnson–designed Glass House (1949) and Sculpture Gallery (1970). In the Glass House, the artist’s durational intervention, titled “revolutions per minute,” employs a harmonious combination of solfeggio frequencies that encourages visitors to consider the aural environment of the transparent pavilion as well as underscores its reverberating cultural influence. In the Sculpture Gallery, the aforementioned sound carries over as an undertone and is transformed by a counterpoint of predominantly black sonic practices from the year 1970, including Alice Coltrane, Alvin Singleton, Milford Graves, and Yusef Lateef. This work, titled “Year of Construction: 1970,” climbs into a crescendo of sound before spiraling back down to the soft tone at the start of the piece, sonically echoing the gallery’s interior patterning of light and winding staircases. To complement the audio collages, Jones created a series of new works on paper and a limited edition 45 RPM vinyl record containing the two sound works.&nbsp; In these works, Jones opens a dialogue by integrating the modernist histories embedded in the Glass House site and music by artists whose work reflects social and political issues of that same period. By layering radical music over Johnson’s unconventional architectural experiments, Jones points to a more expansive history of abstraction than has been generally acknowledged – one that includes voices that had been largely excluded. The exhibition is curated by Cole Akers and supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. In-kind support is provided by Bang &amp; Olufsen. Selected Press Cultured <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/265e5beeb2b94ec63a1ae4127b089c3eed9d9693031c7338a242056b55ccaaa7/12_RPM-record_front.jpg" data-mid="92917786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/265e5beeb2b94ec63a1ae4127b089c3eed9d9693031c7338a242056b55ccaaa7/12_RPM-record_front.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="4499" width_o="6000" height_o="4499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/536b858f3f7bb896f2e1ab4a81950cd90a506fd9f6d03cb49cd491fef3afec2a/3_Installation-view-in-the-Glass-House.jpg" data-mid="92917780" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/536b858f3f7bb896f2e1ab4a81950cd90a506fd9f6d03cb49cd491fef3afec2a/3_Installation-view-in-the-Glass-House.jpg" /><img width="6000" height="3999" width_o="6000" height_o="3999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42c6b4fd0d2c0af492b3dc3d18e60f584ac46df0caaac1a68296e19caa3805da/8_Installation-view-in-the-Painting-Gallery.jpg" data-mid="92917784" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42c6b4fd0d2c0af492b3dc3d18e60f584ac46df0caaac1a68296e19caa3805da/8_Installation-view-in-the-Painting-Gallery.jpg" /> https://coleakers.net/Jimmy-Robert-Imitation-of-Lives Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:35:03 +0000 Cole Akers https://coleakers.net/Jimmy-Robert-Imitation-of-Lives Jimmy Robert&nbsp;Imitation of Lives The Glass House November 3, 4, and 5, 2017 In Imitation of Lives, French artist Jimmy Robert occupies the Glass House, turning the modernist icon into a stage for an intimate performance that delves into the intersections of architecture, visibility, and Black representation.&nbsp; For this new performance, poetry and music are merged into a “live collage” that includes a new painting by Lucy McKenzie, and references to Harlem Renaissance cabaret singer Jimmie Daniels, who was once romantically involved with architect Philip Johnson; Samuel Beckett’s Quad (1981); David Hammons’ In the Hood (1993); lyrics by Josephine Baker; and texts by Jayne Cortez, Marguerite Duras, Audre Lorde, and Lor enzo Thomas. Robert’s layered performance turns the Glass House into an arena where exposure, representation, and power can be thought anew. Co-curated by Charles Aubin and Cole Akers Co-commissioned by Performa and The Glass House for Performa 17. The performance travels to the Gropius Bau, Berlin in 2021. Press Frieze Artforum.com PINUP New York Times <img width="3674" height="4200" width_o="3674" height_o="4200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea00cb78a6dac5e1ef67d7618d9ad12c8d994eb324636f7f400532ac362bca59/GH_10_31_2017-106.jpg" data-mid="92908257" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea00cb78a6dac5e1ef67d7618d9ad12c8d994eb324636f7f400532ac362bca59/GH_10_31_2017-106.jpg" /> <img width="4200" height="3554" width_o="4200" height_o="3554" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f0b4d4b8dd1e2dcb8feae28ce1c1762572390b873761131447545c052771ca9/GH_10_31_2017-111.jpg" data-mid="92908258" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f0b4d4b8dd1e2dcb8feae28ce1c1762572390b873761131447545c052771ca9/GH_10_31_2017-111.jpg" /> <img width="3413" height="4200" width_o="3413" height_o="4200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b77a53a052658bd779fc8cf62b6359a166ecf5a22f31565c8686d9c90b427526/GH_10_31_2017-37.jpg" data-mid="92908255" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b77a53a052658bd779fc8cf62b6359a166ecf5a22f31565c8686d9c90b427526/GH_10_31_2017-37.jpg" /><img width="3715" height="4200" width_o="3715" height_o="4200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3c92fc8fbd2990aa7b74c81d9898d074fdab81ff4026505a6f99abe96e70e81/GH_10_31_2017-68.jpg" data-mid="92908256" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3c92fc8fbd2990aa7b74c81d9898d074fdab81ff4026505a6f99abe96e70e81/GH_10_31_2017-68.jpg" />&nbsp; https://coleakers.net/David-Hartt-The-Histories-Le-Mancenillier Wed, 23 Dec 2020 04:04:23 +0000 Cole Akers https://coleakers.net/David-Hartt-The-Histories-Le-Mancenillier David Hartt &nbsp;The Histories (Le Mancenillier) Beth Sholom Synagogue September to December 2019 David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier) marked the first time that an artist activated Beth Sholom’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed National Historic Landmark. Comprising contrasting media — from orchids and tapestries to hi-resolution video screens and quadraphonic sound — the exhibition explored histories of Jewish and Black diasporas in the United States and considered how the American cultural landscape is shaped by ethnic, economic, and religious migration. Hartt is interested in synthetic ideas of culture, in which “the voice, agency, geography, and temporality of others collude to produce a more compelling version of the world.” The exhibition is curated by Cole Akers and recieved support from the Pew Center for Arts &amp; Heritage.Exhibition brochure Selected Press The Architect’s Newspaper Architectural Digest PIN-UP The Brooklyn Rail Philadelphia Inquierer&nbsp; The Art Newspaper WHYY Contemporary Art Daily <img width="1152" height="768" width_o="1152" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c34b9f3f1747e4837fb81d6665467186ba895e7c16c75813cfb0a5a77e4c217b/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-7-1.jpg" data-mid="92918257" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c34b9f3f1747e4837fb81d6665467186ba895e7c16c75813cfb0a5a77e4c217b/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-7-1.jpg" /><img width="1152" height="776" width_o="1152" height_o="776" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa8dfa29d6aace3c87a9a133bfd42785c25fd12d9e5b3f94562829d7aaabae4b/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-6.jpg" data-mid="92918256" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa8dfa29d6aace3c87a9a133bfd42785c25fd12d9e5b3f94562829d7aaabae4b/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-6.jpg" /><img width="583" height="875" width_o="583" height_o="875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83f0e27ad8494ad2bace8a4825ff629d653086cc12f7173eee16dec98664f5e6/DHfinals012_6_583.jpg" data-mid="92918601" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/583/i/83f0e27ad8494ad2bace8a4825ff629d653086cc12f7173eee16dec98664f5e6/DHfinals012_6_583.jpg" /><img width="700" height="1027" width_o="700" height_o="1027" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7fff338a52b327badedda67fcc1e7754b4ff0577596fbcec85bf1ede8c54ad42/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-2-700x1027.jpg" data-mid="92918249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/700/i/7fff338a52b327badedda67fcc1e7754b4ff0577596fbcec85bf1ede8c54ad42/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-2-700x1027.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="1164" width_o="1600" height_o="1164" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c778d32ff7f540bc748e768dc55e1e61a77f3772fa30434ecca8f619a21fa66/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-1-1600x1164.jpg" data-mid="92918240" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c778d32ff7f540bc748e768dc55e1e61a77f3772fa30434ecca8f619a21fa66/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-1-1600x1164.jpg" /><img width="1152" height="768" width_o="1152" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88c487b0ae941461c3154b4822ecaafb4c8eff0b0383a4a4df5ec0c012b93174/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-5.jpg" data-mid="92918239" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/88c487b0ae941461c3154b4822ecaafb4c8eff0b0383a4a4df5ec0c012b93174/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-5.jpg" /><img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/738e5611be07f2691fd3324b6f0242bd7a6a04b72d800eb126aae3cac26b206a/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-3-1600x1067.jpg" data-mid="92918238" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/738e5611be07f2691fd3324b6f0242bd7a6a04b72d800eb126aae3cac26b206a/David-Hartt-Beth-Sholom-3-1600x1067.jpg" /> https://coleakers.net/Janna-Ireland-on-Paul-R-Williams Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:35:32 +0000 Cole Akers https://coleakers.net/Janna-Ireland-on-Paul-R-Williams Janna Ireland on Paul R. Williams The Glass House September 24, 2020 For nearly five years, Los Angeles-based artist Janna Ireland has criss-crossed Southern California photographing the work of Paul Revere Williams, one of the 20th century’s most prolific architects whose imprint on the built environment of California cannot be overstated. Born in Los Angeles in 1894, Williams built his career decades before the Civil Rights Movement by navigating a non-inclusive profession and designing nearly 3,000 buildings, including civic structures, banks, churches, hospitals, university halls, and numerous private homes. He designed public housing projects as well as estates for celebrities like Cary Grant and Lucille Ball in neighborhoods that he was not allowed to live in at the time. In 1923, Williams became the first Black member of the American Institute of Architects. In 2017, nearly forty years after his death, he became the first Black recipient of the AIA Gold Medal. “At its core, my work is about the expression of Black identity and American culture, and I felt an immediate connection to Williams’ story,” says Ireland. She began the project when architect Barbara Bestor invited Ireland to make images of Williams’ work for an exhibition at Woodbury University’s Julius Shulman Institute; the artist James Welling made the introduction. Ireland gained access to the buildings by word of mouth referrals or by calling the building owners. Ireland’s sensitive and elegant images of Williams’ work are collected in "Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer's View," just out from Angel City Press: “My goal was to create an experience of Williams’ work that was about the feeling of living in his spaces and loving them. Williams thought about every little detail and I felt that seeking out those details would be a fitting way to honor him.”