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Artists
Rugiyatou Jallow (b. 1990, Stockholm, Sweden)
Rugiyatou Jallow is a Los Angeles-based artist from Sweden, of mixed heritage-her mother is Swedish, and her father, who was her primary caregiver, is from the Gambia. Drawing inspiration from her matrilineal lineage of creatives, Jallow's work focuses on strong female characters, often reflecting her experiences as a woman navigating multiple identities.
Her mixed media paintings, created with thread, oil, and acrylic, incorporate threads as a pigment to symbolize familial bloodlines, physically connecting her subjects to their heritage. Through these works, Jallow explores themes of ancestry and the underrepresentation of women like herself in art history. She also emphasizes the significance of hands in her pieces, signifying the ancestors of her female subjects.
Jallow has exhibited solo at the FLAG Art Foundation, NY (2022); albertz benda, NY (2023); Carl Kostyal, SE (2022); and F2T Gallery, IT (2024). She has completed various public projects in Los Angeles, and her works are held in prominent collections worldwide. Her art has been featured in notable publications, including Galerie, Artnet, Observer, and Vogue.
Sharif Bey (b. 1974, Pittsburgh, PA)
Sharif Bey is a Syracuse-based artist and educator. Shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, Bey studied sculpture at The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia. Later, he earned his BFA from Slippery Rock University, his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a PhD in art education from Penn State University. Inspired by modernism, functional pottery, Oceanic Art and Art of the African diaspora, Bey's works investigate the cultural and political significance of adornment and the sym-bolic and formal properties of archetypal motifs, while questioning how the meaning of icons and function transform across cultures and time.
His awards include The United States Artist Fellowship (2022), The Pollock-Krasner Fellowship (2018), and The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2017). Bey's works are featured in numerous public collections including: The Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Columbus Museum, Art Bridges Foundation, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Mint Museum, and The Nelson Atkins Museum among others. Exhibitions in 2024 include Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art and solo exhibitions at albertz benda, New York and the John Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin. A forthcoming solo exhibition, Sharif Bey: Homecoming, will be presented at the The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh in 2025.
