The Collective is in Brazil right now working with L3 Brazil for our exhibition at the Dakar Biennial in May 2010.
Radcliffe Bailey
Storm at Sea, 2006 Piano keys, African sculpture, model boat, paper, acrylic, glitter, and gold leaf 212 x 213 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York © Radcliffe Bailey
The work [...]
Las Cosas que me Arrastran (The Things That Drag Me Along)
1996/2008
Dimensions variable (approx. 25’ across)
Mixed media
Photo: Matthew Septimus. Courtesy P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.
The work of this artist is part of the archive created by the State of L3
(No part of the Collective)
José Braulio Bedia Valdés (born January 13, 1959 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban [...]
Storm at Sea, 2006 Piano keys, African sculpture, model boat, paper, acrylic, glitter, and gold leaf 212 x 213 inches Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York © Radcliffe Bailey
The work of this artist is part of the archive created by the State of L3
(No part of the Collective)
The works of Atlanta-based [...]
Journeys through the Black Atlantic
Renee Cox: River Queen, from Queen Nanny of the Maroons 2004
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic: Friday, 29th January 2010 – Sunday, 25th April 2010 in Liverpool UK.
This major exhibition, inspired by Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), identifies a hybrid culture that spans [...]
Tunga
Tunga (1952, Palmares), is one of the leading Brazilian artists of his generation. His principal media, sculpture, installation and performance, are customarily presented as an integrated body of work which establishes an associative interplay of mirroring and self-reference between the individual pieces. Through rigorously constructed structures, the symbolic and the imaginary perform a decisive [...]
Pepón Osorio
1st photo
Lonely Soul
2008
Approx. 106 ½ x 83 x 77 inches
Wooden crutches, fiberglass, Styrofoam, wood, resin, photographs, metals, human hair, one-thousand pins, hair clips, and wheelchair wheels
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Photo: Matthew Septimus. Courtesy P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
The work of this artist is part of the archive created by the State of L3
(No [...]
Yinka Shonibare on film
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Clip of Shonibare from TV series, Art 21 (William Kentridge also stars).
Yinka Shonibare, MBE (born 1962) is a Nigerian contemporary artist living in Britain.
Biography
Yinka Shonibare is a relative to Sammy H.Jr and [...]
Raul Balai 4 State of L3
Absentia is Tia Ryan’s (San Francisco, 1983) first solo-exhibition in Amsterdam’s WM gallery.
Ryan’s photographic portraiture seeks to bridge the gap between familiar iconography(in this case the surrealist artist Frida Kahlo) and the social reality of living in a multi-ethnic culture. By her own admission she tarries between notions of what is black and what [...]
Quinsy Gario (1984) was born on the sunny island of Curacao and although he’s now living in the Netherlands, his Caribbean disposition can still be found in his work. This disposition consists of the ability to use the movement of words, sounds and thoughts and fuse them with a new understanding. In his work he [...]
(GAP Campaign)
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Glenn Ligon
Born in 1960 in the Bronx, he graduated with a B.A. from Wesleyan University and currently lives and works in New York City. He works in multiple media, including painting, video, photography, and [...]
The work of this artist is part of the archive created by the State of L3
(No Part of the Collective)
Mickalene Thomas
New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas is known for her elaborate paintings adorned with rhinestones, enamel and colorful acrylics. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 2000, and her MFA from Yale University in 2002 [...]
The work of this artist is part of the archive created by the State of L3
(No Part of the Collective)
Kcho (sometimes spelled “K’cho”), Born ‘Alexis Leyva Machado on the Isla de Pinos (1970) is a contemporary Cuban artist. Kcho has had art showings around the world. He first attracted international attention by winning the [...]
The work of this artist is part of the archive created by the State of L3
(No Part of the Collective)
1992 B.F.A. The Maryland Institute College of Art
1997 King County Special Projects, Individual Grant Recipient
2000 Tufts University & The School of the Museum of Fine Arts – MAT
2000 Wackers Kunst Academie, Amsterdam, NL – Summer Studio Arts
2002 Vermont Studio Center, Visual Arts [...]
Design Richard A. Broeksema. Found and used chairframes, upholstered with special materials.
Richard A. Broeksema
Contemporary Arts & Film Collective Exchange Established in 2006
The State of L3 is an Amsterdam based art collective working internationally on art, multimedia exchanges, modern tendencies and political issues.
The State of L3 is founded, curated and directed by Antonio Jose Guzman
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2010-2011 Exhibitions
Dakar Biennale
Senegal, May
Maison de l’Amérique Latine
Paris, June
Gallery 23
Amsterdam, June/July
Smart Project Space
Amsterdam, July/August
SANAA Gallery
Utrecht, September
M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art
Antwerp, Nov/Dec/Jan
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8000 Århus C
“Piertopia”
8 April – 22 May 2011
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