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The Lenfest Center for the Arts May 22, 2017 at 3:48pm

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ORGANIZES NEW TRIENNIAL FOR ARTISTS BASED IN UPPER MANHATTAN Maximilíano Durón of Artnews reports that the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in is launching “Uptown,” a contemporary art triennial that will showcase works by artists who are known for living or working in upper Manhattan. Organized by Deborah Cullen, the director and chief curator of the Wallach, “Uptown” opens June 2 and will be held through August 20. Its inaugural edition will feature sixty- six artists, including Sanford Biggers, Jaime Davidovich, Julie Mehretu, and Nari Ward.

“It’s really an important initiative for the gallery, the university, and the broader community,” Cullen said. “It’s a no-brainer, really, to have a format, a regular mechanism for the gallery to work with the boarder community . . . Our neighbors, the local community should be our first audience.”

The exhibition will be the gallery’s first major project in its new location at the Lenfest Center for the Arts on 129th Street. In addition, thirteen other institutions will present programming related to the artists included in the exhibition. The organizations collaborating with the triennial are Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center; Elizabeth Dee Gallery; the School of the Arts at the Herb Alpert Center; Hunter Gallery of Hunter College; the House; the Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion in collaboration with NoMAA, the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, and the Uptown Arts Stroll; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling; and Windows on Amsterdam Community Art Gallery.

The full list of participating artists is as follows:

Ghada Amer Betty Blayton Sanford Biggers Elan Cadiz Dario Calmese Vladimir Cybil Charlier Marta Chilindron Elizabeth Colomba Pepe Coronado Renee Cox Jaime Davidovich Carlos De Jesus Rene De Los Santos Carlos Jesús Martínez Domínguez/FEEGZ Francisco Donoso Reza Farkhondeh Sandra Fernández Marquita Flowers Derek Fordjour Felicia Megan Gordon Kathleen Granados Alex Guerrero Roberto Gualtieri/COCO144 Alicia Grullón Maren Hassinger Ginny Huo Leslie Jiménez Lauren Kelly Michael Kelly Williams Sara Mejia Kriendler Jason Lazarus Rejin Leys Stephanie Lindquist Luanda Lozano Miguel Luciano José Morales Julie Mehretu Leeza Meksin Beau McCall Ivan Monforte José Morales Tomo Mori Darío Oleaga Ademola Olugebefola Reynaldo García Pantaleón Jaime Permuth Shani Peters John Pinderhughes Lina Puerta Jessica Rankin Elaine Reichek Kenny Rivero Moses Ros-Suarez José Rodríguez Aya Rodriguez-Izumi Duhirwe Rushemeza Ruben Natal-San Miguel David Shrobe Bayeté Ross Smith Dianne Smith Sable Elyse Smith Rider Ureña Virginia Inés Vergara Regina Viqueira Tomas Vu Nari Ward

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