WON’T YOU CELEBRATE WITH ME
ZÉH PALITO
Solo show curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah
LUCE GALLERY
New York, from May 19 to June 10, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, May 19, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Temporary gallery space on the occasion of the New York Art Week 2023
365 Broadway, Tribeca
Text by Ademar Britto, Teri Henderson, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Chantel Akworkor Thompson
Q&A with Derrick Adams, Larry Ossei-Mensah and Zéh Palito
Exhibition view, Won’t You Celebrate with Me, Zéh Palito, 2023, Luce Gallery, New York, Photo Dario Lasagni, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
“Leisure is neither an escape from the world nor a refuge from it. It is a way of engaging with the world on our own terms, of taking time to explore our desires and our dreams, of cultivating the capacity for joy, for wonder, for delight, for laughter, for pleasure, for love.” Fred Moten
Luce Gallery is pleased to present Won’t You Celebrate with Me, the New York City solo show debut by Afro-Brazilian visual artist Zéh Palito curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, from May 19 to June 10, 2023. Opening on the occasion of the New York Art Week 2023, it will be on view at the gallery’s temporary space in Tribeca.
The exhibition is a clarion call by Palito, inspired by the legendary Baltimore poet Lucille Clifton’s poem of the same name. A response to the rhythm and urgency of Clifton’s poem, Palito’s exhibition of works captures the essence of Black life in respite, at ease, and at peace through vivid dreamscapes. Won’t You Celebrate with Me invites us to reflect on the resilience of Black people across the diaspora.
Palito honed his visual lexicon in the streets of São Paulo as a muralist creating larger-than-life artworks in his signature pinks and yellows. Utilizing public space as his studio and the walls of buildings around São Paulo as his canvas, Palito developed an adroit facility to situate his subject in scenes that articulate Black joy and subvert the oppressive visual language that does seek to uplift Black people. A visual language amplified by traditional and social media that has plagued Black people for centuries depicting them as lazy, unsophisticated, violent, and inhuman. Palito has cultivated a practice that centers Black voices and ruptures traditional stereotypes associated with their bodies, particularly in leisure spaces. By tapping into the Black collective consciousness, Palito shares his view on the Black reality in its fullness - loving, complex, happy, and in community with each other.
Palito’s art seduces you into his universe and invites you to celebrate the multidimensionality of the global Black experience. His work celebrates the beauty of Black bodies at rest, as illustrated in I Swam Against Their Waves (2023), lounging on a beach articulated in No Jim Crow Laws on Sag Harbor (2023), or simply enjoying the company of loved ones, as seen in the piece From Baltimore with Love (2023). Black bodies at play, expressing self or romantic love, and visualized in a state of repose are some poses that anchor the crux of Palito’s practice. A painting like Love Times Love (2023) is a quintessential example as it highlights a couple enveloped in each other’s arms, gaze directed at the viewer evoking an unbreakable bond between two soulmates. By showcasing these moments, Palito challenges stereotypes and invites viewers to rethink their perceptions of Black life and celebrates the importance of taking time to enjoy the simple pleasures of life, reminding us that leisure is not a luxury but a vital aspect of our well-being.
Exhibition view, Won’t You Celebrate with Me, Zéh Palito, 2023, Luce Gallery, New York, Photo Dario Lasagni, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
“Leisure is not a luxury, but a necessity. It is the time we need to recharge our spirits, to reconnect with our communities, and to reaffirm our commitment to justice and liberation.” Fred Moten
Within his dynamic artistic practice, we recognize inspiration from various sources including The Impressionists, Post-Impressionist, the West African Portrait Studio, Hip Hop, and Brazilian culture. Palito utilizes his artistic practice as a forum for telling stories about his culture, heritage, and identity. Through his paintings on canvas, he celebrates Black people with bold colors, loose brushwork, and dynamic imagery that often deconstruct symbols to recreate fecund pictorial planes proliferated by the presence of Black bodies from the diaspora uplifted. This is often depicted in Palito’s work by still life-like tropical fruits, subjects draped in clothing with luxury brand logos, and other signifiers of upward mobility. With each brushstroke, Palito creates visually arresting paintings that operate at the intersection of race, history, identity, leisure, and culture, developing a practice that is expressive and nonlinear in structure. His capacity to make fraught conditions beautiful is the key ingredient that makes Palito’s practice so singular. His art challenges the tropes and negative representations of Black culture, presenting a refreshing and authentic portrayal of the diverse experiences within the Black community.
Zéh Palito, Love Times Love, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 70.8 x 59 in (180 x 150 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Zéh Palito, The Radical Act of Holding Joy, Love, and Tenderness, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 62.9 x 51.1 in (160 x 130 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Zéh Palito, From Baltimore With Love, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 62.9 x 51.1 in (160 x 130 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Zéh Palito, Tyrone, Along the Way to Detroit, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 41.3 x 29.5 in (105 x 75 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
The exhibition is accompanied by a playlist of music curated by Zéh Palito, which inspired the creation of works on show, in addition to a publication of essays by Ademar Britto, Teri Henderson, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Chantel Akworkor Thompson, as well as a Q&A between Derrick Adams, Zéh Palito and Larry Ossei-Mensah.
Zéh Palito, What Matters Most, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 62.9 x 51.1 in (160 x 130 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Zéh Palito, Changing Horizons, The New Me Says Yes I Can, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 62.9 x 51.1 in (160 x 130 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Zéh Palito (1986, Limeira, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in Limeira. He is a storyteller and cultural observer who provides insight into contemporary African diasporic life. Adorned with gold and other jewels, shells, exotic fruits, and flowers, the figures in his paintings become the center of attention and the protagonists of their own stories. Each figure is positioned in a stance of power that illustrates a positive self-identity and pays homage to a rich cultural heritage. Combined with the use of bright colors, each figure demonstrates confidence, satisfaction, and self-assurance through their mere existence. Palito's practice seeks to promote a relationship of mutual respect and pleasure between humans and the natural world, often drawing inspiration from Brazilian, African, and American cultures. The artist works across very different scales, from ambitious site-specific murals to small-scale figurative works on canvas. In parallel with his commitment to the environment, elevating, inspiring, and celebrating marginalized communities and underrepresented voices is a fundamental element of his practice - an implicit suggestion that the two issues go hand in hand. Tropical fruits, animals, cars, and swimming pools, move through a world of vibrant foliage, flowers, and houseplants. Palito, choosing to represent minority groups, focuses on individuals with a greater intimacy of perspective. He depicts his figures in sync with their surroundings. Through dramatic shifts in scale and highly saturated use of colors, the artist proposes a wonderous utopic vision for the future.
His works have been exhibited in numerous group shows, including X Museum (2023, Beijing, China), Baltimore Museum of Art (2023, Baltimore, USA), Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa - Zeitz MOCAA (2022, Cape Town, South Africa), Instituto Inhotim (2022, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil), Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia - MAM-BA (2022, Salvador, Brazil), Marianne Boesky Gallery (2022, New York, USA), Perrotin (2022, Paris, France), Museu Afro Brasil (2020, São Paulo, Brazil), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro - MAM Rio (2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Among his solo show: Simões de Assis (2022, São Paulo, Brazil), Luce Gallery (2021, Turin, Italy), and Eubie Blake Cultural Center (2021, Baltimore, USA). His paintings have been acquired by important museum collections: Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore), Fundación Amparo y Manuel - AMMA (Mexico City), Institute of Contemporary Art - ICA Miami (Miami), Instituto Inhotim (Brumadinho, Minas Gerais), Rennie Museum (Vancouver), X Museum (Beijing), Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art (Rizhao). Palito has made art murals in over thirty countries between Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.
Zéh Palito, Assateague Island, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 59 x 108.2 in (150 x 275 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Larry Ossei-Mensah uses art as a forum to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator has launched numerous exhibitions and programs featuring artists such as Firelei Báez, Steve McQueen, Catherine Opie, Nick Cave, Guadalupe Maravilla, Ebony G. Patterson, Judy Chicago, Stanley Whitney, and many more. As a global collaborator, Ossei-Mensah has worked with renowned venues around the world such as the MCA Denver, Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hong Kong & London, the 7th Athens Biennale in Athens, Greece, (co-curated with OSMK Social Club), and MASS MoCA (co-curated with Susan Cross and Allison Janae Hamilton in 2018-2019). He’s been a partner on several Web3-related projects with creatives such as Derrick Adams x Jay-Z, Marco Brambilla, and Mikael Owunna.
Following his critically acclaimed exhibition in Spring 2022, Ghost of Empires, at Ben Brown Fine Art in Hong Kong, Ossei-Mensah recently opened his second exhibition in Asia, Sounds of Blackness, at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila in the Philippines. This is the first group exhibition featuring an ensemble of all Black visual artists from the African Diaspora in South East Asia. The exhibition explores how the participating artists utilize their practices as a forum to articulate a diversity of ideas and perspectives through various mediums and is on view until 17 June, 2023, featuring Artists such as; Rashid Johnson, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Vaughn Spann, Tschabalala Self, and Hank Willis Thomas. Ossei-Mensah has also worked alongside Ghanaian painter, Amoako Boafo, curating his first museum solo exhibition, Soul of Black Folks, exhibited at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in 2021, San Francisco, and the Contemporary Art Museum Houston in 2022 with upcoming iterations on view summer and fall 2023 at the Seattle Art Museum and Denver Art Museum.
A native of The Bronx, Ossei-Mensah co-founded ARTNOIR, a nonprofit whose mission is to drive racial equity in the art world by centering creatives, curators, collectors, and communities of color. Through ARTNOIR, he has worked with brands like UBS, Twitter, Coca-Cola, 1stDibs, and Mailchimp on projects that were the intersection of art and culture. Ossei-Mensah has been profiled in publications, including the New York Times, Artsy, WWD, Frieze, Dazed, Robb Report, The Financial Times, and Cultured Magazine. He has participated in numerous panels and conversations alongside Art Basel Miami Beach, The Earn Your Leisure Podcast, and the FOG Design+Art Fair.
Formerly the Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, Ossei-Mensah currently serves as Curator-at-Large at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
Founded by Nikola Cernetic, Luce Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Turin, Italy. The gallery focuses on the promotion of emerging and established international artists. Luce Gallery participates in international fairs, representing talents from different countries. The gallery has always proposed a fresh and innovative view of contemporary art trends.
Zéh Palito's Won't You Celebrate with Me curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah is the first exhibition presented by the gallery in New York City.
Won’t You Celebrate with Me
Zéh Palito
Solo show curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah
Text by Ademar Britto, Teri Henderson, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Chantel Akworkor Thompson
Q&A with Derrick Adams, Larry Ossei-Mensah and Zéh Palito
Exhibition Playlist curated by Zéh Palito
Luce Gallery
New York, from May 19 to June 10, 2023
365 Broadway, Tribeca, NY 10013
Temporary gallery space on the occasion of the New York Art Week 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, May 19, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Traces of Me - Collins Obijiaku,
Turin, from May 4 to June 30, 2023
Luce Gallery
Largo Montebello 40, Italy
Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 3:30 - 7:30 pm
+39 011 18890206 / info@lucegallery.com / Instagram: lucegallery
Online videos featuring exhibition walkthroughs: www.lucegallery.com/video.php
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
WON’T YOU CELEBRATE WITH ME
ZÉH PALITO
Solo show curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah
LUCE GALLERY
New York, from May 19 to June 10, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, May 19, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Temporary gallery space on the occasion of the New York Art Week 2023
365 Broadway, Tribeca
Text by Ademar Britto, Teri Henderson, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Chantel Akworkor Thompson
Q&A with Derrick Adams, Larry Ossei-Mensah and Zéh Palito
Exhibition view, Won’t You Celebrate with Me, Zéh Palito, 2023, Luce Gallery, New York, Photo Dario Lasagni, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
“Leisure is neither an escape from the world nor a refuge from it. It is a way of engaging with the world on our own terms, of taking time to explore our desires and our dreams, of cultivating the capacity for joy, for wonder, for delight, for laughter, for pleasure, for love.” Fred Moten
Luce Gallery is pleased to present Won’t You Celebrate with Me, the New York City solo show debut by Afro-Brazilian visual artist Zéh Palito curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, from May 19 to June 10, 2023. Opening on the occasion of the New York Art Week 2023, it will be on view at the gallery’s temporary space in Tribeca.
The exhibition is a clarion call by Palito, inspired by the legendary Baltimore poet Lucille Clifton’s poem of the same name. A response to the rhythm and urgency of Clifton’s poem, Palito’s exhibition of works captures the essence of Black life in respite, at ease, and at peace through vivid dreamscapes. Won’t You Celebrate with Me invites us to reflect on the resilience of Black people across the diaspora.
Palito honed his visual lexicon in the streets of São Paulo as a muralist creating larger-than-life artworks in his signature pinks and yellows. Utilizing public space as his studio and the walls of buildings around São Paulo as his canvas, Palito developed an adroit facility to situate his subject in scenes that articulate Black joy and subvert the oppressive visual language that does seek to uplift Black people. A visual language amplified by traditional and social media that has plagued Black people for centuries depicting them as lazy, unsophisticated, violent, and inhuman. Palito has cultivated a practice that centers Black voices and ruptures traditional stereotypes associated with their bodies, particularly in leisure spaces. By tapping into the Black collective consciousness, Palito shares his view on the Black reality in its fullness - loving, complex, happy, and in community with each other.
Palito’s art seduces you into his universe and invites you to celebrate the multidimensionality of the global Black experience. His work celebrates the beauty of Black bodies at rest, as illustrated in I Swam Against Their Waves (2023), lounging on a beach articulated in No Jim Crow Laws on Sag Harbor (2023), or simply enjoying the company of loved ones, as seen in the piece From Baltimore with Love (2023). Black bodies at play, expressing self or romantic love, and visualized in a state of repose are some poses that anchor the crux of Palito’s practice. A painting like Love Times Love (2023) is a quintessential example as it highlights a couple enveloped in each other’s arms, gaze directed at the viewer evoking an unbreakable bond between two soulmates. By showcasing these moments, Palito challenges stereotypes and invites viewers to rethink their perceptions of Black life and celebrates the importance of taking time to enjoy the simple pleasures of life, reminding us that leisure is not a luxury but a vital aspect of our well-being.
Exhibition view, Won’t You Celebrate with Me, Zéh Palito, 2023, Luce Gallery, New York, Photo Dario Lasagni, Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
“Leisure is not a luxury, but a necessity. It is the time we need to recharge our spirits, to reconnect with our communities, and to reaffirm our commitment to justice and liberation.” Fred Moten
Within his dynamic artistic practice, we recognize inspiration from various sources including The Impressionists, Post-Impressionist, the West African Portrait Studio, Hip Hop, and Brazilian culture. Palito utilizes his artistic practice as a forum for telling stories about his culture, heritage, and identity. Through his paintings on canvas, he celebrates Black people with bold colors, loose brushwork, and dynamic imagery that often deconstruct symbols to recreate fecund pictorial planes proliferated by the presence of Black bodies from the diaspora uplifted. This is often depicted in Palito’s work by still life-like tropical fruits, subjects draped in clothing with luxury brand logos, and other signifiers of upward mobility. With each brushstroke, Palito creates visually arresting paintings that operate at the intersection of race, history, identity, leisure, and culture, developing a practice that is expressive and nonlinear in structure. His capacity to make fraught conditions beautiful is the key ingredient that makes Palito’s practice so singular. His art challenges the tropes and negative representations of Black culture, presenting a refreshing and authentic portrayal of the diverse experiences within the Black community.
Zéh Palito, Love Times Love, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 70.8 x 59 in (180 x 150 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Zéh Palito, The Radical Act of Holding Joy, Love, and Tenderness, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 62.9 x 51.1 in (160 x 130 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Zéh Palito, From Baltimore With Love, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 62.9 x 51.1 in (160 x 130 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Zéh Palito, Tyrone, Along the Way to Detroit, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 41.3 x 29.5 in (105 x 75 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
The exhibition is accompanied by a playlist of music curated by Zéh Palito, which inspired the creation of works on show, in addition to a publication of essays by Ademar Britto, Teri Henderson, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Chantel Akworkor Thompson, as well as a Q&A between Derrick Adams, Zéh Palito and Larry Ossei-Mensah.
Zéh Palito, What Matters Most, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 62.9 x 51.1 in (160 x 130 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Zéh Palito, Changing Horizons, The New Me Says Yes I Can, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 62.9 x 51.1 in (160 x 130 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Zéh Palito (1986, Limeira, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in Limeira. He is a storyteller and cultural observer who provides insight into contemporary African diasporic life. Adorned with gold and other jewels, shells, exotic fruits, and flowers, the figures in his paintings become the center of attention and the protagonists of their own stories. Each figure is positioned in a stance of power that illustrates a positive self-identity and pays homage to a rich cultural heritage. Combined with the use of bright colors, each figure demonstrates confidence, satisfaction, and self-assurance through their mere existence. Palito's practice seeks to promote a relationship of mutual respect and pleasure between humans and the natural world, often drawing inspiration from Brazilian, African, and American cultures. The artist works across very different scales, from ambitious site-specific murals to small-scale figurative works on canvas. In parallel with his commitment to the environment, elevating, inspiring, and celebrating marginalized communities and underrepresented voices is a fundamental element of his practice - an implicit suggestion that the two issues go hand in hand. Tropical fruits, animals, cars, and swimming pools, move through a world of vibrant foliage, flowers, and houseplants. Palito, choosing to represent minority groups, focuses on individuals with a greater intimacy of perspective. He depicts his figures in sync with their surroundings. Through dramatic shifts in scale and highly saturated use of colors, the artist proposes a wonderous utopic vision for the future.
His works have been exhibited in numerous group shows, including X Museum (2023, Beijing, China), Baltimore Museum of Art (2023, Baltimore, USA), Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa - Zeitz MOCAA (2022, Cape Town, South Africa), Instituto Inhotim (2022, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil), Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia - MAM-BA (2022, Salvador, Brazil), Marianne Boesky Gallery (2022, New York, USA), Perrotin (2022, Paris, France), Museu Afro Brasil (2020, São Paulo, Brazil), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro - MAM Rio (2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Among his solo show: Simões de Assis (2022, São Paulo, Brazil), Luce Gallery (2021, Turin, Italy), and Eubie Blake Cultural Center (2021, Baltimore, USA). His paintings have been acquired by important museum collections: Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore), Fundación Amparo y Manuel - AMMA (Mexico City), Institute of Contemporary Art - ICA Miami (Miami), Instituto Inhotim (Brumadinho, Minas Gerais), Rennie Museum (Vancouver), X Museum (Beijing), Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art (Rizhao). Palito has made art murals in over thirty countries between Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.
Zéh Palito, Assateague Island, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 59 x 108.2 in (150 x 275 cm), Courtesy the artist and Luce Gallery, Turin
Larry Ossei-Mensah uses art as a forum to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator has launched numerous exhibitions and programs featuring artists such as Firelei Báez, Steve McQueen, Catherine Opie, Nick Cave, Guadalupe Maravilla, Ebony G. Patterson, Judy Chicago, Stanley Whitney, and many more. As a global collaborator, Ossei-Mensah has worked with renowned venues around the world such as the MCA Denver, Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hong Kong & London, the 7th Athens Biennale in Athens, Greece, (co-curated with OSMK Social Club), and MASS MoCA (co-curated with Susan Cross and Allison Janae Hamilton in 2018-2019). He’s been a partner on several Web3-related projects with creatives such as Derrick Adams x Jay-Z, Marco Brambilla, and Mikael Owunna.
Following his critically acclaimed exhibition in Spring 2022, Ghost of Empires, at Ben Brown Fine Art in Hong Kong, Ossei-Mensah recently opened his second exhibition in Asia, Sounds of Blackness, at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila in the Philippines. This is the first group exhibition featuring an ensemble of all Black visual artists from the African Diaspora in South East Asia. The exhibition explores how the participating artists utilize their practices as a forum to articulate a diversity of ideas and perspectives through various mediums and is on view until 17 June, 2023, featuring Artists such as; Rashid Johnson, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Vaughn Spann, Tschabalala Self, and Hank Willis Thomas. Ossei-Mensah has also worked alongside Ghanaian painter, Amoako Boafo, curating his first museum solo exhibition, Soul of Black Folks, exhibited at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in 2021, San Francisco, and the Contemporary Art Museum Houston in 2022 with upcoming iterations on view summer and fall 2023 at the Seattle Art Museum and Denver Art Museum.
A native of The Bronx, Ossei-Mensah co-founded ARTNOIR, a nonprofit whose mission is to drive racial equity in the art world by centering creatives, curators, collectors, and communities of color. Through ARTNOIR, he has worked with brands like UBS, Twitter, Coca-Cola, 1stDibs, and Mailchimp on projects that were the intersection of art and culture. Ossei-Mensah has been profiled in publications, including the New York Times, Artsy, WWD, Frieze, Dazed, Robb Report, The Financial Times, and Cultured Magazine. He has participated in numerous panels and conversations alongside Art Basel Miami Beach, The Earn Your Leisure Podcast, and the FOG Design+Art Fair.
Formerly the Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, Ossei-Mensah currently serves as Curator-at-Large at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
Founded by Nikola Cernetic, Luce Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Turin, Italy. The gallery focuses on the promotion of emerging and established international artists. Luce Gallery participates in international fairs, representing talents from different countries. The gallery has always proposed a fresh and innovative view of contemporary art trends.
Zéh Palito's Won't You Celebrate with Me curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah is the first exhibition presented by the gallery in New York City.
Won’t You Celebrate with Me
Zéh Palito
Solo show curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah
Text by Ademar Britto, Teri Henderson, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Chantel Akworkor Thompson
Q&A with Derrick Adams, Larry Ossei-Mensah and Zéh Palito
Exhibition Playlist curated by Zéh Palito
Luce Gallery
New York, from May 19 to June 10, 2023
365 Broadway, Tribeca, NY 10013
Temporary gallery space on the occasion of the New York Art Week 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, May 19, 6:00 - 8:30 pm
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Traces of Me - Collins Obijiaku,
Turin, from May 4 to June 30, 2023
Luce Gallery
Largo Montebello 40, Italy
Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 3:30 - 7:30 pm
+39 011 18890206 / info@lucegallery.com / Instagram: lucegallery
Online videos featuring exhibition walkthroughs: www.lucegallery.com/video.php
Press Office: THE KNACK STUDIO / Tamara Lorenzi
tamara@theknackstudio.com / +39 347 0712934
info@theknackstudio.com / www.theknackstudio.com
