Morris-Jumel Mansion presents:
Yinka Shonibare MBE
Until August 31, 2015.
The Ghost of Eliza Jumel, 2015.
About:
Seated Girl, 2009.
Elaborate, colorful, seductive and quizzical, Yinka Shonibare’s renowned, textile-based art has been the focus of more than 50 solo museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. The latest, Colonial Arrangements, will take place, from May 1st to August 31st, 2015, at Morris-Jumel Mansion. It’s a fitting match, with the Mansion’s lovingly preserved 18th- and 19th-century interiors set to serve as a baroque backdrop for Shonibare’s extraordinary sculpture, including an entirely new, never-before-seen work commissioned by the Mansion. It’s the most ambitious art show in Morris-Jumel history.
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Colonial Arrangements is a Historic House Trust Contemporary Arts Partnership Program. Generously sponsoring the exhibit are the James Cohan Gallery, the New York State Council on the Arts and The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.(press release)
Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights has long been rumored a haunted house, with the ghost of its longest resident Eliza Jumel spotted creeping on its creaking floors. In Colonial Arrangements, a site-specific exhibition in partnership with the Historic House Trust, UK-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBEconjures Eliza’s specter with headless mannequins clothed in Dutch wax fabric lurking in the period rooms. Simultaneously, he engages with the history of Manhattan’s oldest house, which is celebrating its 250th anniversary up on its hill overlooking the Harlem River. (from Hyperallergic, May , 2015
Boy doing headstand, 2009.
Planet in my Head, Arts, 2011.
