Artist Awol Erizku will be at FLAG on November 13 to discuss his latest solo exhibition (photography by Art Echo LLC)
Who: Awol Erizku, Alicia Quarles, and Glenn Fuhrman
What: Artist talk
Where: The FLAG Art Foundation, 545 West 25th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves., tenth floor, 212-206-0220
When: Friday, November 13, free with RSVP, 7:00
Why: In conjunction with the exhibition “New Flower | Images of the Reclining Venus,” New York-based artist Awol Erizku will talk about his solo show, consisting of photographs of sex workers taken in Addis Ababa in 2013 that reexamine and challenge conventional art-historical tropes. “While ‘New Flower’ importantly revises the homogeneous tradition of the ‘odalisque,’ the series also complicates the counter tradition by highlighting the tension between labor and the aesthetic — through a framing that is definitively and defiantly new,” Ashley James writes about the exhibit. On November 13, Erizku will be at the FLAG Art Foundation in Chelsea to discuss his work, in conversation with fashion journalist Alicia Quarles and FLAG founder Glenn Fuhrman. “New Flower | Images of the Reclining Venus,” which includes a mixtape you can check out here, will remain on view through December 12.