Panel Discussion on Young, Gifted, and Black in OSilas Gallery on October 22

Please join us on October 22 in OSilas Gallery at Concordia College New York for a panel discussion with art collector Bernard Lumpkin and curators Antwaun Sargent and Matt Wycoff.  Topics to be discuss include this important moment in time for contemporary African American art and Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, which is on view in OSilas Gallery through December 7.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear insights into works on view, an insider’s view of the art world and the role of patronage in art.  Space is limited and tickets are required:  $25 per person or $20 for OSilas Gallery members. To purchase tickets, please click here.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS:

Bernard Lumpkin is a noted art collector and supporter of the arts. He currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Board of Trustees of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Additionally, he serves on the Painting and Sculpture Committee at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Media and Performance Art Committee at the Museum of Modern Art.

Antwaun Sargent is an art critic and a writer who has contributed articles to the New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books and various essays to gallery and museum publications. His first book, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion (recently adapted for a major New York Times essay), is out this October from Aperture.

Matt Wycoff is an artist, writer, woodworker, designer and curator. He is a MacDowell Fellow and has been the recipient of studio fellowships at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska and The Urban Culture Project in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Wycoff is also the collection curator for The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection.

OSilas Gallery is located on the campus of Concordia College, 171 White Plains Road, Bronxville, in the Donald A. Krenz Academic Center on the second level of Scheele Memorial Library.  Free parking is available on campus and is accessible via entry on Concordia Place off of White Plains Road. For gallery hours and a full listing of gallery events, please see osilasgallery.org.

OSilas Gallery integrates the visual arts into the cultural and educational life of the Concordia College campus and surrounding community by providing quality exhibitions and programs that are diverse in style, content and media; memorable, thought-provoking and spiritually enriching; and of artistic originality, integrity and excellence.

Graphic credit: Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Blue Dancer (detail), 2017. © Tunji Adeniyi-Jones