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Apr 01

Tendai Mupita

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SARUNGANO (Tendai mupita) was born in 1990 in Harare, Zimbabwe, and graduated from Chinhoyi University of Technology in 2015. In 2017 he received an artist residency award at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg, South Africa, and in 2019 he was a participant in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, USA. Sarungano has been included in numerous exhibitions in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Italy, London, USA, and South Africa. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.

In 2020 Sarungano’s solo exhibition in Rome was titled”Kuedza mudzimu nesengere” which was featured in the Artforum magazine, September issue. In 2019 he participated in the Zimbabwe Cultural Center of Detroit, an artist exchange residency program that culminated in a symposium at the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, USA.

Soot (ii), 2023, Pen markers, acrylic paint, printmaking relief ink on Linen Canvas, 20 x 22 inches
Soot (i), 2023, Pen markers, acrylic paint, printmaking relief ink on Linen Canvas, 30 x 28 inches
Makenani, 2021, Paint makers, printmaking ink, wool threads, gold leaf on canvas, 51 x 45"
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Apr 01

Amy Pleasant

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Based in Birmingham, AL, Amy Pleasant received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1994) and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University (1999).

She has held solo exhibitions at Institute 193, (Lexington, KY), Geary Contemporary, (NYC), Jeff Bailey Gallery, (Hudson/NYC), whitespace gallery (Atlanta, GA), Augusta University (Columbus, GA), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IN), Birmingham Museum of Art (AL), Atlanta Contemporary (GA), Auburn University’s School of Liberal Arts (AL), Rhodes College (Memphis, TN), Candyland (Stockholm, Sweden), and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (AL) among others. Group shows include Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami, FL), Tif Sigfrids (Athens, GA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington, D.C.), Adams and Ollman (OR), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (AL), Cuevas Tilleard Projects (NYC), The Dodd Galleries (Athens, GA), Zuckerman Museum of Art (GA), Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art (GA), Knoxville Museum of Art (TN), Weatherspoon Museum of Art (NC), Hunter Museum of American Art (TN), Columbus Museum of Art (GA), National Museum of Women in the Arts (D.C.), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC), The Mobile Museum of Art (AL), and the U.S. Embassy, Prague, Czech Republic.

Her work has been reviewed in publications such as World Sculpture News, Sculpture, The Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, Artforum, Art Papers, Bad at Sports and BURNAWAY. She was recently awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2018). Other awards include the South Arts Prize for the State of Alabama (2018), Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award (2015), Mary Hambidge Distinguished Artist Award (2015), Cultural Alliance of Birmingham Individual Artist Fellowship (2008), and Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship (2003).

Reclining Figures in White, 2023, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 40 inches
The Weight/The Wait IV, 2020, Oil on Canvas, 26 x 30 inches
Untitled (Arrangement SV 2), 2023, Gouache on Paper, 30 x 22.5 inches
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