Set up view of “Alberta Whittle: In the direction of a m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶f̶u̶l̶ loving praxis, we forged seeds into the darkness,” Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, N.Y. (March 6-April 19, 2025). | © Alberta Whittle. Courtesy the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Picture: Lance Brewer
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THE LATEST EXHIBITION OF Alberta Whittle (b. 1980) options new materially wealthy works made in response to the uncertainty of our modern second. Practically two dozen collage and assemblage-style work, watercolors, mixed-media sculpture, and a single-channel video are on view at Nicola Vassell, a Black woman-owned gallery. The prolonged title of the exhibition (“In the direction of a motherful loving praxis, we forged seeds into the darkness”) is framed across the phrase “motherful,” which in Whittle’s interpretation means “to precise an expanded, genderless sense of care and assist between individuals and species extra typically, an idea her works enact by their formal relationships and materials complexity.” At the moment is the ultimate day of the present. Whittle represented Scotland on the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, she lives and works in Glasgow. CT
“Alberta Whittle: In the direction of a m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶f̶u̶l̶ loving praxis, we forged seeds into the darkness” is on view at Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, N.Y., from March 6-April 19, 2025
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ALBERTA WHITTLE, “Studying a Motherful Praxis at Her Knee,” 2025 (acrylic on canvas, framed with fretwork, beaded coils (shackles, pony beads, cowrie shells, seashells, glass beads and jewellery wire), golden snail, and conch, body dimensions: 57 ½ x 66 ½ x 2 ½ inches / 146.1 x 168.9 x 6.3 cm); total dimensions: 101 ⅝ x 65 ⅜ x 2 ⅜ inches / 258.1 x 166.1 x 6 cm). | © Alberta Whitte, Courtesy the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery
Set up view of “Alberta Whittle: In the direction of a m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶f̶u̶l̶ loving praxis, we forged seeds into the darkness,” Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, N.Y. (March 6-April 19, 2025). | © Alberta Whittle. Courtesy the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Picture: Lance Brewer
ALBERTA WHITTLE, “Discovering the Tempo Earlier than We Start,” 2025 (acrylic on canvas, tambourines, raffia, doilies and beaded coils (shackles, pony beads, cowrie shells, clay beads, agate, freshwater pearls, rose quartz, keys and jewellery wire, 58 ½ x 39 ¾ x 3 ⅞ inches / 148.6 x 101 x 9.8 cm). | © Alberta Whittle, Courtesy the artist and Nicolla Vassell Gallery
Set up view of “Alberta Whittle: In the direction of a m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶f̶u̶l̶ loving praxis, we forged seeds into the darkness,” Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, N.Y. (March 6-April 19, 2025). | © Alberta Whittle. Courtesy the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Picture: Lance Brewer
Set up view of “Alberta Whittle: In the direction of a m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶f̶u̶l̶ loving praxis, we forged seeds into the darkness,” Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, N.Y. (March 6-April 19, 2025). | © Alberta Whittle. Courtesy the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Picture: Lance Brewer
Set up view of “Alberta Whittle: In the direction of a m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶f̶u̶l̶ loving praxis, we forged seeds into the darkness,” Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, N.Y. (March 6-April 19, 2025). Proven, from left, “Incantation III,” 2025 (acrylic on canvas, hoodie, kilt pin, pony beads and raffia) and “Incantation II,” 2025 (acrylic on canvas and raffia). | © Alberta Whittle. Courtesy the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Picture: Lance Brewer
Set up view of “Alberta Whittle: In the direction of a m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶f̶u̶l̶ loving praxis, we forged seeds into the darkness,” Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, N.Y. (March 6-April 19, 2025). | © Alberta Whittle. Courtesy the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Picture: Lance Brewer
ALBERTA WHITTLE, “Terra Nullius isn’t a Defence,” 2025 (acrylic on canvas, framed with fretwork, bell, tambourine with crystal attachment and beaded coils (shackles, pony beads, cowrie shells, Goody plastic barrettes, seashells, glass beads and jewellery wire); body dimensions: 57 x 58 ½ x 2 ½ inches / 144.8 x 148.6 x 6.3 cm); total dimensions: 101 x 57 ½ x 2 ⅜ inches / 256.5 x 146.1 x 6 cm). | © Alberta Whittle, Courtesy the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery
ALBERTA WHITTLE, Element of “Our Breath is the Coil that Connects Us,” 2025 (beaded coils (shackles, pony beads, cowrie shells, clay beads, agate, freshwater pearls, rose quartz, and jewellery wire), feather, tambourine, hoodie, artificial hair braid, fishermen’s rope, Goody plastic barrettes, pad locks and conch). | © Alberta Whittle, Courtesy the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery
Set up view of “Alberta Whittle: In the direction of a m̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶f̶u̶l̶ loving praxis, we forged seeds into the darkness,” Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, N.Y. (March 6-April 19, 2025). | © Alberta Whittle. Courtesy the artist and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Picture: Lance Brewer
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“Alberta Whittle: How Versatile Can We Make the Mouth” was revealed in 2019 on the event of an exhibition at Dundee Up to date Arts, the artist’s first institutional solo present within the UK. Alberta Whittle can also be among the many artists included in “A Transient Historical past of Black British Artwork” and “Liberation Begins within the Creativeness: Writings on Caribbean-British Artwork.”
