ANCIENT. MODERN. FUTURISTIC
AT QUEEN ROSE ART HOUSE
Curated by Kalup Linzy
April 6 - April 27, 2024
Queen Rose Art House (843 N. Birmingham Place, Tulsa, OK 74110)
Saturdays 12 PM - 6 PM or by appointment
Ancient.Modern.Futuristic, curated by Kalup Linzy at Queen Rose Art House, brings together three prolific artists: video art pioneer Ulysses Jenkins, innovator Sondra Perry, and boundary pusher Jacolby Satterwhite.
Each artist's work provokes dialogue around ancient, modern, and future sovereignties, aligning with The University of Tulsa 'Sovereign Futures' project organized by visiting faculty Allison Glenn.
On view April 6 through April 27, 2024. Public hours are Saturdays, 12-6pm, and by appointment. Queen Rose Art House, 843 N Birmingham Pl, Tulsa, OK 74110.
For more information, visit @queenrosearthouse or contact queenrosearthouse@gmail.com. Photographs by Brittany Bendabout, courtesy of Tulsa Artist Fellowship.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ulysses Jenkins
Ulysses Jenkins was born in 1946, in Los Angeles, California. He studied painting and drawing as an undergraduate at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and later received an MFA in intermedia-video and performance art from Otis Art Institute (now known as Otis College of Art and Design). He is currently Associate Professor in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and an affiliate professor in the African American Studies program at the University of California, Irvine. Jenkins is the recipient of numerous awards, including individual artist fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts. His work has been included in major exhibitions, including America is Hard to See (2015), at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Now Dig this!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 (2012), at the Hammer Museum. His video and media work is remarkable for its fusion of forms to conjure vibrant expressions of how image, sound and cultural iconography inform representation.
Sondra Perry
Sondra Perry was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, in 1986. Perry holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Alfred University. In 2015, Perry was a panelist at Black Artists on Social Media at the Brooklyn Museum, NY. The artist was a 2021 Visiting Fellow in Fine Arts at Yale University and has participated in residencies at Oxbow, the Experimental Television Center, and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Perry lives and works in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Perry has presented solo exhibitions at numerous international venues including Bridget Donahue, New York (2023); Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (2022); Times Square Arts (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2019); Luma Westbau, Zürich (2018); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2018); Serpentine Gallery, London (2018); Seattle Art Museum (2017); and The Kitchen, New York (2016). In 2022, Perry’s work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale and, in 2015, the Greater New York exhibition at MoMA PS1.
Jacolby Satterwhite
Jacolby Satterwhite is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses video, performance, 3D animation, drawing, fibers and printmaking to explore themes of memory, desire, and personal and public mythology. In his video works, Satterwhite creates fantastical digital landscapes populated with multiple, costumed avatars of himself, engaging with hand-drawn objects and text as extensions of the body, in a seamless exchange between live performance and constructed worlds. Satterwhite's computer-generated realms—densely layered with proliferating drawings, objects and performances—encompass animated narratives of personal memory and identity. Satterwhite was born in 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Arts and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and many more group exhibitions. Satterwhite was a recipient of the United States Artists Award in 2016 and was an Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem from 2021-22. He lives and works in New York.
Shane Brown, Artist Spotlight
Shane Brown is a photographer and filmmaker documenting the present-day cultural landscape of the American West, experimenting with representations of time and motion, and working on a variety of film projects. Photography clients have included Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, FX Networks, Indigenous Global Coordinating Group for the United Nations World Conference for Indigenous Peoples, First Americans Museum, and This Land Press. He has lent his technical and artistic ability to cinematography projects such as Love and Fury (2020), Mekko (2015), and This May Be the Last Time (2014), all feature-length films by director Sterlin Harjo. Brown's documentary photography projects include “In the Territories,” views of Oklahoma, its convoluted histories and their present-day manifestations; “Life Out There,” an exploration of the Atomic Age-based mythology of the American West; and “Great Plains Schema,” a survey of the ethos, archetypes, and myths of the Great Plains region. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of Oklahoma. He is currently 2024-2026 Tulsa Artist Fellow.
Kalup Linzy, Curator
Kalup Linzy was born in Clermont, Florida and raised in Stuckey, Florida, a rural close-knit community. He received his MFA from the University of South Florida. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Linzy has been the recipient of numerous awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, Creative Capital Foundation grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Film and Video. His work is in the public collections at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Linzy has worked and collaborated with many well known artists, celebrities, and fashion designers. Among them are James Franco, Chloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Liya Kebede, Proenza Schouler, and DVF. He is represented by David Castillo Gallery in Miami, Florida, The Breeder Gallery in Athens, Greece and the founder and director of Queen Rose Art House in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a Tulsa Art Fellowship Alumni in Residence.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
Tulsa Artist Fellowship strives to provide a welcoming and accessible experience. Our public programming is free, documented, and archived.
Archer Studios (109 MLK Jr Blvd E. Tulsa, OK 74103) & Cameron Studios (303 N Main St, Tulsa, OK 74103) accommodate wheelchairs and strollers. Variable seating is provided in addition to areas for distanced standing and wheelchairs. Family-scale private washrooms are available, designed to support visitors with disabilities and caregivers who need access to increased square footage and changing tables. The elevator at Archer Studios is located at the main west entrance on Martin Luther King Blvd. Street-side parking is available using the Park Mobile App and is free after 5 pm and all-day Saturday-Sunday.
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ABOUT QUEEN ROSE ART HOUSE
Founded in 2021 by interdisciplinary artist Kalup Linzy, the Queen Rose Art House is a social but critical art space that engages with our local, national, and international art communities. The project inspires and creates a safe space for artists to dwell by hosting events like gatherings, performances, exhibitions, screenings, symposiums, and short-term artist residencies. Supporters include the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
