1-54 NY Presentation

To coincide with the gallery’s participation in the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair’s 2021 New York online Edition, Ross-Sutton Gallery will be showcasing an expansion of its fair presentation at the gallery’s new home 14 Wooster Street in SoHo, NY

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To coincide with the gallery’s participation in the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair’s 2021 New York online Edition, Ross-Sutton Gallery will be showcasing an expansion of its fair presentation at the gallery’s new home 14 Wooster Street in SoHo, NY

Press Release

DESTINEE ROSS-SUTTON and 
ROSS-SUTTON GALLERY 


“1-54 Fair NY Expanded gallery presentation”
May 4 - 29, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

To coincide with the gallery’s participation in the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair’s 2021 New York online Edition, Ross-Sutton Gallery will be showcasing an expansion of its fair presentation
at the gallery’s new home
 14 Wooster Street in SoHo, NY

Curated by Destinee Ross-Sutton, the presentation for 1-54 NY May further explores different facets of the Black experience, both African and American, it includes artist Khari Turner (who will have his first NY solo with the gallery this July), Nigerian artists Joshua Michael Adokuru with his intricate and sophisticated string art works and the captivating work of Johnson Eziefula, who just had a sold out duo show at the gallery together with Adegboyega Adesina who will be part of the extended presentation along side Ghanaians Isshaq Ismail; and Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne whose inauguration portrait of Amanda Gorman received a lot of attention, who amongst other will show a portrait of Michelle Obama and George Floyd (it will be exactly one year now in May that Floyd was killed by the hands of the police which sparked both national & international protests), and the exhibition will also include new works by Lagos based artist Odinakachi Okoroafor, as well as Ugandan Stacey Gillian Abe, Atlanta based Ariel Dannielle and Alexandria Couch exploring the Female gaze.

Opening reception May 6, 12 - 7pm
Regular exhibition hours Wednesday - Sunday 12-6pm

About Destinee Ross-Sutton:
Ms. Ross-Sutton is a young international art curator, advisor, gallerist, artist manager and advocate based in NY. She has co-curated and curated successful international group exhibitions at renowned institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden as well as Christie’s “SAY IT LOUD (I’m Black and I’m Proud),” a virtual selling exhibition dedicated to the promotion and empowerment of Black art, which ran July 31 – Aug.18, 2020. The second edition to follow this coming August in Christie’s NY main galleries.

Independently, she advises several private institutions, international collectors and organizations on acquisitions of particularly –but not exclusively– within the field of contemporary African and African American art. The main body of her curatorial work over the last three years has been carried out in her capacity as curator for a major Black Arts Foundation opening later in 2021. In her eyes, “showing a wide range of opinions, voices, and countless expressions of beauty is essential in a world where compassion and connection is needed now more than ever”
(D. Ross-Sutton, quoted in exh. cat., BLACK VOICES/BLACK MICROCOSM, 8 April-9 May 2020, https://www.cfhill.com/black-voices-black-microcosm-by-destinee-ross).

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DESTINEE ROSS-SUTTON and 
ROSS-SUTTON GALLERY