X Gallery of Harlem proudly celebrates Black History Month this February 2018 with a group show; highlighting the talents of our eclectic group of talented artists. The exhibition will remain on view until the end of March.
 
Inside the beautiful
 
in the burgeoning neighborhood of Harlem beckons viewers to stop and appreciate the compelling art and photography.(118th Street) The X Gallery window display on Lenox Avenue space multimedia works have been curated by photographer/artist, Lisa DuBois who creates an aura of diverse artistic beauty in the space with Afrocentric sculptures, paintings, and assemblage.  

      

Otto Neals; a true master of the Arts, is the featured artist of the month.

December 

Please join us for an interesting talk,
With special guests Rev. Richard Honeywell   

Art Exhibition

and a rare look at part of the private collection of
Gene Alexander Peters

When:  ONE DAY only special Talk and rare artifacts display and talk on
Thursday, December 14th, 2017 at 6 pm. 

Artwork & Photos will remain after the exhibition

Where:  X Gallery -163 Malcolm X Boulevard

Talk:  by Reverend Richard Honeywell & Gene Alexander Peters

Display:  Rare African American Historic artifacts from the Gene Alexander Peters collection.

Artwork:  by Dudley Vacciana, Robert Daniels, Noel Donaldson, and Ademola Olugebefola  

Sculpture:  Otto Neals  www.ottoneals.com    

Photography

Eduardo Duarte   

Isseu Diouf

Lisa DuBois 
Curator - Lisa DuBois

[email protected] 

Richard Honeywell

Rev. Richard Honeywell, Associate Minister at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church and founder of African Journeys, will share insights on slavery from various travel experiences including the commonalities of sacred water traditions in our Diaspora

Gene Alexander Peters

Gene Alexander Peters is a cultural historian, educational consultant, and noted collector.

Gene designs and curates exhibitions and historical displays that visually and physically document the history of the African American experience in the Americas. Several of his collection artifacts have been featured at numerous landmark institutions and museums, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY and the Smithsonian Museum-Anacostia

in Washington, D.C.     

Otto Neals -ArtistPainter, sculptor, printmaker
Otto Neals was born in Lake City, South Carolina in 1930 to Gus and Della Neals. Before he was five years old, his family left the South and settled in Brooklyn, New York, where he still lives. All of Mr. Neals’ schooling was in Brooklyn, where he studied commercial art at George Westinghouse Vocational High School.
Mr. Neals describes himself as a self-taught artist although he studied briefly at the Brooklyn Museum Art School with Isaac Soyer and printmaking at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop with Krishna Reddy, Mohammed Khalil and Roberto DeLomanica. He was introduced to stone carving by sculptor Vivian Schuyler Key, who presented him with his first set of stone carving tools.
The Prospect Park Alliance and Ezra Jack Keats Foundation commissioned him in 1995 to create a bronze sculpture entitled “Peter and Willie”, based on the works of author and illustrator Keats. For this work, which is located in the “Imagination Playground” in Prospect Park, Mr. Neals was presented with the New York City Arts Commission’s “Award for Excellence in Design”.

Other commissions include 10 bronze plaques for the “Harlem Walk of Fame,” a bronze sculpture for the Brooklyn Children’s Center, a 20-foot mural for Kings County Hospital and recently a bronze portrait of the late Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton for the City University of New York.

Besides travelling to Africa several times, Mr. Neals has made more than a dozen trips to St. Helena Island, South Carolina, for the Heritage Festival. He has been featured in several publications including Black Artists of the New Generation by Elton Fax, The New York Times and Ebony Magazine.

Neals’ art work has been exhibited at the Columbia Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, The Ghana National Museum, The Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Institution, and the collections of Congressman John Lewis, jazz musician Randy Weston, actor/singer Harry Bellafonte and Oprah Winfrey.

About his art, Neals said, “My talent as an artist comes directly from my ancestors. I am merely a receiver, an instrument for receiving some of the energies that permeate our entire universe and I give thanks for having been chosen to absorb those artistic forces.”  

Aleathia Brown
Eduardo Duarte
Ekaterina Abramova
John Brathwaite
Lisa DuBois
Papa Gora Tall
Patricia Talbot
Robert Daniels
Robert Ross
Thaddeus Coates
Wilhelmina Grant
 

Special Guests
Samuel Kaplan - New York painter 
Kwame Brathwaite - photographer

http://www.xgallery.nyc 
 
The gallery is open for viewing on Thursday-Saturday and  Sunday afternoons from 1 to 6 pm.
To arrange for a private showing text Lisa at   718 504 577 1268

for questions please contact us at [email protected]

Introducing 

Aleathia Brown

Wilhelmina Grant

  Thaddeus Coates