BLACK PINEAPPLE

✨🌕✨ . very special to me - large limited edition screen prints posted on my website 4 sale ✨✨✨ link in bio✨✨🌈 (at Full Moon) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4yWFLrhdG6/?igshid=zwwobmog0jsz

🌊🌊🌊 . 📸: @ramdasha 💕✨ (at Women's Center for Creative Work) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx9Ma0fBxJ4/?igshid=1guqcwcf6hpae

VIVID SEAMS is screening tomorrow in Toronto ⚡️🌈 . ‘Don't @ Me’ A film screening presented by @baucollective . A screening of compiled videos by Black Womxn artists from in and out of Toronto. Presented with Whippersnapper Gallery . VIVID SEAMS is a performance archive that locates and memorializes black migration patterns from the south to the west in the United States. Working with a collection of black artists, and writers, sculpture, spontaneous outdoor installation, and sound, exploring the depth of black movement and the un/making of home. (at Jackman Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuuCgm6hJy_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oiw8xjpvo9qi

✨✨✨✨🌈 . 📸: Tia Thompson @t.squares #vividseams https://www.instagram.com/p/BpPi_O3hbWt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ljgf074spiy2

my first experimental film VIVID SEAMS, will be an installation opening this Thursday, October 25th 7-10pm @treehouselagos ✨ as part of a two person exhibition with @rahimagambo ✨ . Rahima Gambo & Adee Roberson: The Secret Life of Plants Taking it’s title from Stevie Wonder’s album, this exhibition is the first in the avant-garden series, a composition of exhibitions and events exploring our surroundings and the [non-human] perspectives of plants, animals, earth, architecture and atmosphere. . Rahima Gambo brings her Abuja-based a walk series to Lagos. This work centers around daily explorations of the environment which then become sculptures comprised of text, drawing, photography, natural and found objects. For The Treehouse, the artist's daily walks will be remembered through site-specific sculptures installed as a temporary archive of her movements through the city. Beginning her first walk on the day of the exhibition opening, and culminating the project ten days later gives viewers a look into an ongoing process of gathering, making and activating space. . VIVID SEAMS is a performance archive that locates and memorializes black migration patterns from the south to the west in the United States. Through sculpture, site-specific installation, and sound Adee Roberson explores the profundity of black movement and the un/making of home. For this installation, the performance archive will be in conversation with environment, plants and the landscape of Lagos. Environments and kin from New Orleans, Louisiana; Pensacola, Florida; and Los Angeles, California are transmitted across the Atlantic ocean via moving image as type of future/past time travel, and ceremony of ancestral memory. . Thank you to @wuraogunji For having me! @epfcfilmmobile For the support/tools/love 💕 . Thank you @chinweokona @djjihaari @essenceh @thurmongreen @janayaforthefuture @msmauve @spikeleila @baexploitation @jheaneeeeeelle @t.squares for time traveling with me across the Atlantic Ocean 👽🌈🌴🌊 . Film still photo by Tia Thompson @t.squares 🙏🏾💕 (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpPfMi_BlLg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hmbzvyx7ceuu

showing new work alongside some amazing artists 💕 womxn on womxn exhibition opening this Saturday at the Los Angeles LGBT center, 4 to 7pm ✨Curated by @erinadamsart and @essenceh 💫 . In these works I focus on an archive of queer Black love. The deeply peaceful, joyful, and labor intensive process of self love. That then evokes a loving of others who are a reflection of you. (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo-U3VyFEm5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xalv56lwfnw4

Tomorrow, August 11th, Anna Luisa Petrisko and I will perform a live activation of the Emory Douglas: Bold Visual Language exhibition @welcometolace 💫 curated by @essenceh and @dunadarina 💫 . I’ve always loved Emory Douglas’ work, so this is such an honor 🙏🏾 His iconic prints, and use of color, remind me of the importance of aesthetics in black liberation / movement work. . Using interwoven landscapes of video and sound, we will present textural abstractions on diaspora, healing, and community in conversation with Douglas’s work and legacy. . This performance coincides with the Black TED lectures that pertain to the CAVERNOUS exhibition by Young Joon Kwak & Mutant Salon. 7pm. . #EmoryDouglas #boldvisuallanguage #mutantsalon #BlackTED #blackpantherparty (at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)

🌕THREE OF CUPS 🌕 . made an edition of 12 prints yesterday for the full flower moon 🌺 posted for sale on my website. Link in bio. . thank you to genius printer @mosherhall for helping my vision come to light 💓 . three of cups 19”X 25” screen-print acrylic on paper (at Los Angeles, California)

🌊🌊🌊 . . just learned that the radio frequencies/ / weather made it so Jamaica was able to tune in to New Orleans radio stations in the 1930s ⚡️#newmoon #transportconnection (at Gulf Of Mexico)

Performing music tings this Saturday @pamresidencies in Los Angeles With the inimitable @amentaabioto and @thurmongreen ✨ looking forward to it✨🌴 9pm ✨ . analog visuals by @annaluisapetrisko 💕👽✨

We Are Not Yours 💎 . Illustration by me, for the new issue of @bitchmedia 💓

Environmental 🌕🌈🌺

Come out to the closing of 'black is a color' tonight @charliejamesgallery . 6-9pm ✨Performances by keyon gaskin, Kenyatta AC Hinkle and I 👑✨🌷Tunes by @djjihaari 👑 . It's been such a gift to be in this exhibition! Showing work alongside people who's vision(s) are so inspiring and so necessary. . So much gratitude and love to Essence Harden, for curating that centers blackness in all of its expansiveness. Prioritizing Black women/ non-binary/ trans/ queer experience as an atmosphere. And a space/site of transmuting the constant fuckery, that is white supremacy and patriarchy, into a manifestation of black light 🖤✨✊🏿👑💕 (at Charlie James Gallery)

True love with #keyongaskin and @wizard.apprentice 🔮catch our performances tomorrow night at 8pm in Oakland ✨💜 (at TAC: Temescal Art Center)

Some of my work is being shown and auctioned this weekend April 15th in Austin, Texas! Then Houston April 28th, through HOUSE OF WAHALA! With the magical @wuraogunji as auctioneer ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ With a global art market valued at $63.8 billion and artists receiving the lowest amount of their earned income from the market…it’s time to reinvent the art auction! House of Wahala– meaning trouble in Nigerian pidgin–flips the script. Artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji steps in as auctioneer and audio guru Emeka Ogboh provides the evening’s soundtrack. All works come from the primary market–that is directly from artists–to you. Featuring opening bids from $200 and up House of Wahala infuses the art auction with the perfect amount of spectacle, humor and political debate. The art auction is finally fun again! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ House of Wahala is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work in partnership with DiverseWorks and NPN. For more information: www.npnweb.org. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org. House of Wahala AUSTIN
 premieres at Fusebox Festival Saturday, April 15, 2017 SHDW Studios, 4709 Red Bluff, Austin, TX 78702 Doors 8pm, Auction begins promptly at 9pm Preview: Friday, April 14 from 7-9pm * House of Wahala HOUSTON
 Friday, April 28, 2017 DiverseWorks Matchbox 1 - The Emily Todd Theater 3400 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002 Doors 7pm, Auction begins promptly at 8pm Preview: Thursday, April 27 from 6-8pm (at Austin, Texas)