Civil Tapestry series (2011-ongoing) Black Vessel for a Saint (2017)
Movement
Social practice, Urbanism
Website
TheasterGates.com
Theaster Gates (born August 28, 1973) is an American social practice installation artist and a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.[1] He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works.[2]
Gates' work has been shown at major museums and galleries internationally and deals with urban planning, religious space, and craft. He works to revitalize underserved neighborhoods by combining urban planning and art practices.[3] Gates' art practice responds to disinvestment in African-American urban communities, particularly in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, addresses the importance of formal archives for remembering and valuing Black cultural forms, and disrupts artistic canons, especially those of post-painterly abstraction and color field painting.
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^"'Clay feels perverse' – Theaster Gates on working on Obama's library and going back to pottery". TheGuardian.com. October 21, 2021.
^Moore, Natalie. "How Theaster Gates Is Revitalizing Chicago's South Side, One Vacant Building at a Time". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
TheasterGates (born August 28, 1973) is an American social practice installation artist and a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University...
fashion including Frank Ocean, André 3000, Virgil Abloh, Tom Sachs, TheasterGates and Hank Willis Thomas. Emory was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised...
Windy City institution Lane Tech. "TheasterGates's Biography". "Union League drafts exceptional artist in TheasterGates". Chicago Tribune. February 14,...
after this reconstruction, including a site-specific commission from TheasterGates in his first permanent outdoor sculpture, Black Vessel for a Saint....
for a Saint is sculptural piece commissioned and completed in 2017 by TheasterGates for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The...
including Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Anselm Kiefer, Larry Bell and TheasterGates. It closed in 2015. In summer 2015, White Cube showed works from its...
2009 by TheasterGates, a social practice installation artist. The Foundation is currently composed of seven projects. In 2009, TheasterGates founded...
Black Cinema House, a neighborhood-based film exhibition venue run by TheasterGates' Rebuild Foundation. Jevens, Darel (January 8, 2017). "Top Chicago Critics...
stemming from management errors of the past." It also had to postpone a TheasterGates show until 2019. In March 2017, a controversy received international...
collaborated with artist, musician, and urban planner TheasterGates. In 2009, Bach and Gates set to music the poems of slave potter Dave Drake, which...
his brother Peter Adjaye, a musician. In 2018, along with Bono and TheasterGates, Adjaye curated the third (RED) auction in Miami to support the Global...
something that was given to you freely." In 2007, Chicago-based artist TheasterGates had an exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center titled Plate Convergence...
London presented an installation, Amalgam, by social practice artist TheasterGates (b. 1973) interpreting the history of Malaga.[citation needed] American...
diversity and inclusion advisory council co-chaired by Ava DuVernay and TheasterGates. As of 2014[update], Prada was being investigated by Italian prosecutors...
and The New Yorker, among other journals. An exhibition curated by TheasterGates and Romi Crawford featured a wealth of photographs, some never publicly...
Chicago-based archive of Black art and culture curated by artist and professor TheasterGates. The album was released on 15 September 2023. "Like a Star" is part...
Vincent Scully, His Highness the Aga Khan, Gerald D. Hines, Robin Chase, TheasterGates, Alejandro Aravena, and Anthony Williams, and Jeanne Gang. Founded in...
and Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, Simone Leigh, Wangechi Mutu, Rose B. Simpson, TheasterGates, Kehinde Wiley, and Hank Willis Thomas. The park opened on March 27...
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