Title & Author:

Just Above Midtown : changing spaces / edited by Thomas (T.) Jean Lax and Lilia Rocio Taboada ; in collaboration with Linda Goode Bryant ; contributions by Eric Booker, Brandon Eng, Thelma Golden, Linda Goode Bryant, Marielle Ingram, Kellie Jones, Yelena Keller, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Legacy Russell, Lilia Rocio Taboada.

Publication:

New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art : The Studio Museum in Harlem, [2022]
New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK, D.A.P., [2022]
©2022

Description:

183 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 9, 2022-February 18, 2023.
Includes oral histories by Horace Brockington, Gylbert Coker, Pat Cummings, Kathleen Goncharov, Maren Hassinger, Janet Olivia Henry, AC Hudgins, Senga Nengudi, Lowery Stokes Sims, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, Faythe Weaver, Tony Whitfield, and Randy Williams and chronologies by Eric Booker, Brandon Eng, Marielle Ingram, Yelena Keller, Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Legacy Russell, Lilia Rocio Taboada.
Artists include: Bimal Banerjee ; Dawoud Bey ; Cathey Billian ; Camille Billops ; Willie Birch ; Sydney Blum ; Rolando Briseño ; Vivian Browne ; Barbara Chase-Riboud ; Albert Chong ; Martin Cohen ; Dan Concholar ; Houston Conwill ; Blondell Cummings (with Senga Nengudi and Yasunao Tone) ; Charles Daniel Dawson ; Marcy R. Edelstein ; Wendy Ward Ehlers ; Peter Feldstein ; Tom Finkelpearl ; Howard Finster ; Susan Fitzsimmons ; David Hammons ; Maren Hassinger ; Cynthia Hawkins ; Palmer Hayden ; Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds ; Janet Olivia Henry ; Suzanne Jackson ; Walter C. Jackson ; Noah Jemison ; G. Peter Jemison ; Jasper Johns ; Nina Kuo ; Norman Lewis ; Rosemary Mayer ; Valerie Maynard ; George Mingo ; Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe ; Senga Nengudi ; Senga Nengudi (with Cheryl Banks-Smith and Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris) ; Lorraine O'Grady ; Sandra Payne ; Howardena Pindell ; Liliana Porter ; Robert Rauschenberg ; Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds ; Jorge Luis Rodriguez ; Betye Saar ; Raymond Saunders ; Coreen Simpson ; Lorna Simpson ; Russ Thompson ; Randy Williams.
Director's foreword / Thelma Golden and Glenn D. Lowry -- Can JAM be JAM at MoMA?: a conversation between Linda Goode Bryant and Thelma Golden -- Up in the air / Thomas (T.) Jean Lax -- The world according to Linda Goode Bryant / Kellie Jones -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Contributors.

Summary:

Just Above Midtown, or JAM, was an art gallery and self-described laboratory for experimentation led by Linda Goode Bryant that foregrounded African American artists and artists of color. Open from 1974 to 1986, it was a place where an expansive idea of contemporary art flourished and debate was cultivated. The gallery offered early opportunities for artists recognized as pivotal figures in late-20th-century art--including David Hammons, Butch Morris, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady and Howardena Pindell--as well as a nonhierarchical approach to art that welcomed artists without stylistic proscription. Published in conjunction with the first museum exhibition to focus on this gallery and its ongoing impact, this book showcases rarely seen material from JAM's history--artworks, ephemera and photographs--that collectively document the gallery's communal and programmatic activities. It includes essays that contextualize JAM and consider its legacy, a conversation between Goode Bryant and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, a complete exhibition chronology written by MoMA and Studio Museum staff with nearly 50 annotated entries, and excerpts from oral histories with JAM staff and artists conducted especially for this project.

ISBN:

9781633451377 (paperback)
1633451372 (paperback)

Subject:

Goode-Bryant, Linda Interviews.
Goode-Bryant, Linda
Just Above Midtown, Inc. Exhibitions.
Just Above Midtown, Inc.
African American art 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, American New York (State) New York 20th century Exhibitions.
Art and society New York (State) New York History 20th century Exhibitions.
Arts Experimental methods 20th century Exhibitions.
Art noir américain 20e siècle Expositions.
Art américain New York (État) New York 20e siècle Expositions.
Art et société New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Arts Méthodes expérimentales 20e siècle Expositions.
ART / American / African American & Black.
African American art
Art, American
Art and society
Arts Experimental methods
Intellectual life
New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 20th century Exhibitions.
New York (State) New York

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Interviews
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Goode-Bryant, Linda, editor, contributor, interviewee.
Lax, Thomas J., editor, contributor.
Taboada, Lilia Rocio, editor, contributor.
Booker, Eric, contributor.
Eng, Brandon, contributor.
Golden, Thelma, contributor, interviewer.
Ingram, Marielle, contributor.
Jones, Kellie, contributor.
Keller, Yelena, contributor.
Russell, Legacy, contributor.
Varella, Kimberly, book designer.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution, publisher.
Studio Museum in Harlem, publisher.

Changing spaces
JAM

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318348
Call No.: 318348
Copy: 1
Status: Available