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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (April 22, 2017 – New York) Michael Rosenfeld Gallery will present a spotlight position for Barbara Chase-Riboud (American, b.1939) at Frieze New York, concentrating on works from the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition will in- clude a selection of sculpture and drawings; most works to Twins in Back Matisse’s be featured have never been exhibited in the United States.

American-born, European-based au- thor, poet, and sculptor Barbara Chase- Riboud, will be attending Frieze New York on Thursday, May 4 from 2:00-6:00pm; she will be available for interviews.

Following her seminal spotlight at (b.1939), Chase-Riboud Barbara cm 45.7 x 99.1 x 191.1 / 18” x 39” x 1/4” 75 base, steel painted Frieze New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery will present in September 2017 Barbara Chase-Riboud – Malcolm X: the series, begun in 1969. Additions to the series came in 2003, Complete, her second large-scale solo 2007-08 and 2016-17, totaling twenty sculptures. Known collec- exhibition at 100 Eleventh Avenue. tively as the Malcolm X Steles, the first thirteen sculptures were exhibited in 2014 to acclaim at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Scheduled to be on view from September 8 to November 4, and the Berkeley Art Museum (University of California Berkeley). 2017, the exhibition will focus on her now complete series Malcolm X Steles which she started in 1969. A color cata- Born in 1939 in Philadelphia, Barbara Chase-Riboud began tak- logue will accompany the exhibition with new scholarship by ing art classes at the Philadelphia Art Museum and the Samuel S. Pellom McDaniels III, Ph.D., Curator of African American Collec- Fleisher Art Memorial at an early age. Wrongly accused of plagia- tions in the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books rizing a poem she had written,Autumn Leaves, her mother had her Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The institution is removed from middle school and tutored at home before enrolling also where Chase-Riboud’s papers and manuscripts are housed. her in the Philadelphia High School for Girls in 1948. Four years lat- er, Chase-Riboud graduated from high school and began studying For over forty years, Barbara Chase-Riboud has created profound at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Following an exhibition sculpture and drawings that are deeply connected to history, of her prints at the ACA Gallery in New York in 1954, The Museum identity, and sense of place. She is known for her monumental of Modern Art purchased her woodcut Reba in 1955. The follow- metal and fiber abstractions that combine a range of dichotomies ing year, she graduated from Temple with a BFA, won a Mademoi- central to her practice: hard/soft, male/female, two-dimension- selle guest-editorship award and moved to New York to take a job al/three-dimensional, Western/non-Western, stationary/in flux, with Charm magazine. In 1957, on the recommendation of noted figurative/abstract, power/beauty. In 1958, she created her first art director Leo Lionni, she won a John Hay Whitney Fellowship to bronzes through the direct lost wax method, a technique she re- study at the American Academy in Rome. While in Rome, in 1958, turned to a decade later to produce the abstract sculptures for she had her first European exhibitions at the American Academy which she became known. She started creating thin sheets of wax and at Galleria L’Obelisco and her work was included in the first that she could bend, fold, meld, or sever in order to create unique annual Festival of the Two Worlds in Spoleto. At this time, she also models, which she would then bring to a local foundry for cast- traveled to Egypt, an experience which would profoundly influence ing. This new approach to the lost-wax casting process enabled her mature work. She returned to the United States in September her to produce large-scale sculptures comprised of ribbons of of 1958 with a fellowship to pursue her MFA at Yale University bronze and aluminum. In 1967, she added fiber to these metal School of Design and Architecture. There, she befriended the art- elements, devising the seemingly paradoxical works for which she ist Sheila Hicks and studied with Josef Albers, Phillip Johnson, Paul became famous—tall, sturdy sculptures of cast metal resting on Rand, Alvin Eisenman, and Louis Kahn, among others. Soon after, supports hidden by cascading skeins of silk or wool so that the her sculpture Bull-Fighter was included in the 1958 Pittsburgh fibers seem to support the metal. Of these works were a group of International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture steles memorializing Malcolm X and his transformation “from a at the Carnegie Mellon Institute. In 1960, the twenty-one-year-old convict to a world leader.” His assassination in 1965, which upset artist completed her first commissioned public work, the Whea- the artist, was the impetus for the creation of her first works in ton Plaza Fountain in Maryland (since destroyed), and received her MFA from Yale, the first African American woman to do so. by of the Ted Weiss Federal Building, adjacent to Foley Square in Square Foley toTed adjacent the WeissFederalBuilding, of by cans. Three years later, Afri and enslaved free for inLower cemetery a colonial-era Ground Manhattan, Burial African discovered recently the rating sculpture the create to Administration Services General U.S. the from commission a won Chase-Riboud year, same That Japan. Hakone, Museum, Open-Air Hakone the Sculpture Contemporary for Exhibition International the Biennale in exhibited she 1995, In program. Residence in Artists annual College’s fourth City Pasadena the in participated her began she Twombly.1990, Cy In with neighboring Rome, in Ricci In 1985, Barbara Chase-Riboud established a studio in the Palazzo Dialogue European Sydney: of Biennale 3rd Kasselin VI prestigiousthe in included was she 1977, In Senegal. and Ghana Leone, Sierra Tunisia,Mali, in venues with partment, organized Africa, of State exhibition tour the U.S. solo De by and lecture month-long a on departed she Gallery, Parsons Betty at sthalle Baden-Baden in Germany. In 1975, following an exhibition StaatlicheKun and KunstmuseumDüsseldorf the at Parisand de Ville la d’Art de Musée Moderne the at exhibitions solo held she troit Institute of Arts and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In 1974, at the University Art Museum in Berkeley, CA, traveling to the De exhibition the 1973, In museum. the at firstto exhibit American woman African the Saar, Betye alongside becoming, Art, American of Museum exhibition the in participated she 1970, In artist. the representing began York New in Betty Gallery Parsons the time, Atthis MA. Cambridge, in of Institute Technology Massachusetts the at Gallery Hayden the Yorkyear,New thatlater in and Schaefer Gallery Bertha atthe at Festival. In 1970, four works Cultural from Pan-African first the the for Algeria Algiers, to traveled also nificantly, first her was castfiber. workcombine to metal and She including sculptures new exhibitedfive Riboud Paris theGalerie exhibition at the 1969, In held Paris. show, in Solaire gallery Cadran major first her had also she year, same that Later Dakar, Senegal. in held Arts Negro of tival Fes first World the in States Pierre United the represented and designer Cardin fashion from commission sculpture a received year, she following The revolution. political its since country the Marc Eugène Riboud, as the first photographer American woman invited to visit French husband, first her with China of Republic her studio in 1962. In 1965, Chase-Riboud traveled to the People’s International the by director art an as hired was she Paris, In Later that year, Chase-Riboud moved to Europe, settling in France. La Musica opened at the Galerie Air France in New York, where Chase- , Germany and two yearstwolater, Germanyand , the participated in she and began a successful sculpting career, establishing series, inspired by singer Marian Anderson and she Chase-Riboud Contemporary American Sculpture American Contemporary Africa Rising , organized by Peter Selz, was shown was organizedPeterSelz, by, would be installed in the lob Malcolm X Africa Rising Africa in Sydney,Australia. in series were shown Sheila 7 Américains de Américains 7 New YorkTimes New at the Whitney the at , commemo , , which, sig which, , Documenta Barbara Chase-Riboud (b.1939), Malcolm X #15, 2016, black bronze, silk, wool, linen, and synthetic fibers,

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York, (New Harlem in Museum Studio of The New-York and Museum (PA); (LA); Philadelphia Art Art the (NY); of Museum Museum Society Historical Orleans New (NJ); Museum Newark Mod France; of of Collections National Museum NY); York, (New intheir The Art ern France; ArtMuseum, Culture, of Ministry NY); York, byChase-Riboud Berkeley (New Art of the Museum Metropolitan The California; of University include work collections with permanent institutions Major Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today exhibition ContemporaryArt of Museum Kemper the in included Black, Radical Women, 1965-85 exhibition Museum’s Brooklyn the in um for her first single-artist museum exhibition in 1973, is on view which was commissioned by Peter Selz and the Berkeley Art Muse sculpture her addition, In Art. ern AbstractionWomenPostwar and Artists berg College (1993), the James Van Der Zee Award (now known (now Award from Zee Der Van James the Arts (1993), College berg Muhlen Fine from Letters of of Doctorate a Doctorate (1981), University Temple a including: degrees, and honorary awards numerous of recipient the been has Chase-Riboud 2014. in (MARBL) Library Book University’s Rare Emory and Archives, by Manuscript, acquired were manuscripts and papers Thelonious Poems Collected Released: Is God a Undone, is Knot a Time Every Memoir; A Paris: in American an from Mother works: literary following novelhistorical versionof English titled trip, In 2007, she returned Fiction. to China to complete a travelogue for of her 1965 Award Literary Association Library American the of Caucus Black the won and Award Legacy Hurston-Wright the fornominated was which Baartman, Sarah about historicalnovel 2003, In 1994). and Amistad, the Association; Platform International the which won the Carl Sandburg Award for best American poet from Cleopatra Womanas Nude a of Portrait Harem the of Novel A Ballantine Books in 1994. Other works in literature include languages. Its sequel, ten in translated be later would and bestseller international an became Hemings, Sally slave his and Jefferson Thomas between Fiction Americanby an the about book, The Woman. relationship (Viking Press, 1979), which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in line Kennedy Onassis, she published her first novel, Jacque of encouragement the later,with years Five acclaim. cal edited by Toni Morrison and published by Random House, to criti poetry, of book first her published she Chase-Riboud is equally renowned for her literary success. In 1974, drawing, and sculpture in achievements her for known Although journal the of issue cial spe a published UniversityPress Hopkins Johns the 2009, in and monograph Sculptor Chase-Riboud: their Barbara completed Janson F. Anthony and Selz Peter the her on work began Lower Manhattan, where it can be viewed to this day. In 1996, she wide. Currently, she is featured in the exhibition the in featured is Currently,she wide. Lettres. Her work des has also been exhibited at numerous institutions world et Arts des l’Ordre de French the Chevalier by knighted as was government she 1996, In (2013). Paris in Arts Visual the in Award ArtAssocia theDe the Tannie and (2007), from Arts of Institute Award troit International College Locke Alain the the (2007), tion from Award Achievement forArt Lifetime Caucus Women’s the the (1996), Connecticut of from the University from Award) Letters of Doctorate Achievement a (1995), Workshop Lifetime Brandywine Brandywine the as acl X Malcolm Roman Égyptien, Roman , a melologue for a screenplay. Barbara Chase-Riboud’s 10,000 Kilometers of Silk of Kilometers 10,000 about the Amistad revolt (William Morrow,1989); (William revolt Amistad the about series, as tributes to historical figures. In 1999, In figures. historical to tributes as series, The Great Mrs. Elias Mrs. Great The Hottentot Venus Hottentot Roman ÉgyptienRoman ihe Rsned alr i te exclusive the is Gallery Rosenfeld Michael Monument Drawings Monument a book of French poetry (Éditions du Félin, du (Éditions poetry French of book a The President’s Daughter (William Morrow, 1986); a book of poetry of book a Morrow,1986); (William Callaloo Helicopter . . This summer, her work will also be , published by Harry N. Abrams, N. Harry by published , was published by Doubleday, a Doubleday, by published was , devoted entirely to the artist. the to entirely devoted , (titled Confessions for Myself for Confessions , a verse novel; verse a , . In 2013, she completed the completed she 2013, In . . In 2011, she completed an completed she 2011, In . e atd Revolution: a Wanted We From Memphis & Peking & Memphis From Echo of Lions: A Novel of Novel A Lions: of Echo (William Morrow,(William 1987), at The Museum of Mod of Museum The at series, created, as with as created, series, Egypt’sNights ; and ; , was published by Making Space: Making Sally Hemings Letters to My to Letters Pannonica & Pannonica ) and the and ) (1972), Valide: ------. ,