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David Alekhuogie for World of Interiors, Swatch: Bolts from the Blue

Six artists around the globe were commissioned to experiment with and re-interpret outdoor fabrics in their own way. Featuring Wai Lin Tse, Julian Song, Ebrahim Bahaa-Eldin, David Alekhuogie, Abhishek Khedekar, and Marisol Mendez.

Pick up a copy of the latest issue to find it in print!

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Destiny Taylor photographed by David Alekhuogie in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Headscarf, outer: Regatta 466189-002, Maharam. Inner: Tresco F7864-07, Osborne & Little.

Rodrigo Valenzuela, from Afterwork and Weapons.

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Afterwork #36, 2021
Silver Gelatin Print
32 x 40 in
Edition of 3

Weapon #11, 2022
Silkscreen, acrylic on collage cardboard & canvas
60 x 48 in
Unique

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Manjari Sharma's works are included in "Under the Talking Tree" at Kunsthal n in Copenhagen, Denmark. The group exhibition, curated by Kathy Huang, brings together twelve contemporary Asian diasporic artists exploring mythology, narrative, and the stories of humans. On view through August 3, 2025.

More info online at kunsthaln.dk

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Manjari Sharma
Lord Hanuman, 2011 (from Darshan)
Garudas Wisdom, 2024 (from Tat Tvam Asi / The Universe is a Mirror)
Maa Saraswati, 2011 (from Darshan)

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Sarker Protick was celebrated as the winner of the After Nature: Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize, which was launched as a collaboration between the Crespo Foundation and CO Berlin.

The jury included Lewis Chaplin (co-founder, Loose Joints Publishing), Martin Guinard (curator, LUMA Arles), Hajra Haider Karrar (curator, SAVVY Contemporary), Iris Sikking (curator, Fotomuseum, Den Haag), Olga Smith (Newcastle University) as well as Christiane Riedel (Director, Crespo Foundation), Sophia Greiff (Co-Program Director, C/O Berlin Foundation) and Katharina Täschner (Junior Curator, C/O Berlin Foundation). The decision was unanimous and was based on the nominations of 15 international experts.

Sarker Protick's project Awngar explores the historical territory of Bengal, which today extends across India and Bangladesh. He transfers the colonial history of the British Empire to the present through a photographic investigation, focusing on the expansion of railroad connections and coal mining in the 19th century. Traveling through Bangladesh and India, Protick's precise and atmospheric visual language creates a photographic treasure trove that illuminates the global, geopolitical, and historical dimensions of imperialism.

The exhibition of Protick's work is also on view from February 28 - May 25, 2025 at Crespo Open Space in Frankfurt, Germany. Learn more at www.crespo-foundation.de

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Assembly artist David Alekhuogie's work is currently on view in LACMA's exhibition Imagining "Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics" — a group show that finds aesthetic connections among 60 artists working in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The exhibition remains on view through August 3, 2025. Learn more at lacma.org

We are thrilled to announce that Alekhuogie will be releasing his first monograph "A Reprise" with Aperture this year. The book confronts the intriguing legacy of narrative and authorship behind Western presentations of African art—including photographs made by Walker Evans—and poses timely questions about how Black aesthetics are circulated, accessed, valued, and interpreted today. Learn more at aperture.org

It was also just announced that Alekhuogie will be highlighted in "Made in L.A. 2025" at the Hammer Museum. This is the seventh iteration of the Hammer’s biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area. The exhibition will run from October 5, 2025 - January 4, 2026. Learn more at hammer.ucla.edu

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David Alekhuogie
Mask 99/2, 2022
Archival inkjet print on cotton rag
48 x 36 in.

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"Envisioning the Hindu Divine: Expanding Darshan and Manjari Sharma" will be on view in the Cowden Gallery at the San Antonio Museum of Art from March 7 - July 6, 2025.

Bringing together the striking work of Manjari Sharma with over forty historical objects from the collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, this exhibition showcases nine of the most significant deities of the Hindu pantheon and their contemporary relevance in art and faith. These works serve as a gateway to the concept of 'darshan'—seeing and being seen by the divine, a profound spiritual exchange of glances experienced through consecrated images of gods. The vibrant, varied, and sometimes contradictory stories of these gods—as well as their familial relationships with each other—are shared through the works in this exhibition.

Manjari Sharma makes work that is rooted in portraiture and addresses issues of identity, multiculturalism, and personal mythology. Sharma’s "Darshan" series of photographs aims to recreate the experience of encountering the nine Hindu deities. An extraordinary aspect of Sharma’s work is her commitment to creating each scene in the studio, without digital manipulation.

A member preview will be held at SAMA on Friday, March 7 from 10-11:30am along with a lecture that evening by curator Katherine Ann Paul from 6-7pm. Looking ahead, mark your calendar for Manjari Sharma's return to San Antonio for an artist talk on May 16 (more info TBA).

For more information, visit www.samuseum.org

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Image: Manjari Sharma, Maa Durga, 2011 (from "Darshan")

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Assembly is pleased to share that Misha de Ridder's "arven II" has joined the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

De Ridder's exhibition "Unreal Reality" was presented by Assembly in March 2024, and "glitch" was presented in May 2024.

We are thrilled to see de Ridder's work enter the permanent collection at the museum, and encourage those who are not local to the MFAH to enjoy exploring their collection online at www.mfah.org

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arven II, 2020
Giclée print
19.8 x 15.9 in
Edition of 7

See more works by Misha de Ridder online at www.assembly.art

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Congratulations to Assembly artists Rodrigo Valenzuela and David Alekhuogie on being recipients of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.

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Rodrigo Valenzuela, Weapon #29, 2023
David Alekhuogie, Mask 99/2, 2022

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We are delighted to have placed a large-scale piece from Manjari Sharma's series "Surface Tension" at The Luckman Club, located on the iconic Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood.

Named in honor of the building’s original architect, Charles Luckman, the newly opened club will be used primarily for private events and dinners. Inspired by classic Hollywood glamour, it features three meticulously designed spaces, including a dining room with views over the Los Angeles skyline, Beverly Hills, and sunsets over the Pacific Ocean.

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Manjari Sharma
Untitled, 2019
Archival pigment print
40 x 60 in.
Edition of 4 + AP

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Artist Manjari Sharma sat down with Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes to discuss her latest work and exhibitions "तत् त्वम् अिस (Tat Tvam Asi) The Universe is a Mirror" on view at AEIVA through December 7th, in conjunction with "Looking for a Silver Lining" for UAB Arts in Medicine.

Listen to the recording and see the story on WBUR 90.9 FM / NPR:
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2024/11/18/manjari-sharma-art

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The last few remaining copies of Fumi Ishino's handmade artist book, Index of Fillers, are available exclusively through Assembly.

To reserve one, visit www.assembly.art/shop

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Composed of found images of Japanese culture from the late 1980s and 1990s along with Ishino’s own photographs, Index of Fillers is a recreation of the artist’s elusive memory of growing up during this era in Japan. Referencing the traditional format of Japanese comic strips, each image panel contains its own nostalgic narrative—from a cartoon Clearasil commercial to a video game rendering of a neighborhood to the interior of a love hotel. With a machine-embroidered felt cover housed inside a woven pencil case, each handmade book is unique and also includes a CD with a video piece made in Ishino’s childhood room.

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Fumi Ishino is an artist based in Los Angeles and Tokyo whose work explores issues of meaning, cultural interpretation, and the constructed space primarily through photography and installation. He holds an MFA from Yale University where he was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. Other awards include the Japan Photo Award (2015) and the Honorable Mention Award from New Cosmos Photography (2015). His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions including Fraenkel Gallery, the FLAG Art Foundation, and Houston Center for Photography, and has been featured in publications including Aperture Magazine, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, and AnOther. His books include rowing a tetrapod (MACK, 2017), Tinted Lines (torch press, 2021), and Index of Fillers (Assembly, 2021).

Installation views of Manjari Sharma: तत् त्वम् असि (Tat Tvam Asi)
The Universe is a Mirror. On view September 13 - December 8, 2024 at AEIVA.

Learn more at www.uab.edu/aeiva
See the OVR at www.assembly.art

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