Tony Whitfield
Lessons Learned (Banner)
Printed fabric, Edition of 5 + 1AP
Single sided banner, sold individually
33" x 46" each
Lessons Learned / The Just Above Midtown Project
Lessons Learned is an ongoing project begun by Tony Whitfield in 2017 to record Whitfield's ruminations about his life experiences and the ways in which the lessons of those experiences reflect social interactions and contexts. Originally gathered for presentation at New York's Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with their 2022-23 exhibition, Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, the banners included in this exhibition document Lessons Learned by Whitfield up to and through the time he served as Performance Curator at the groundbreaking New York-based arts organization from 1983 to 1986.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Tony Whitfield (b. 1954) is a 2023 Kresge Artist Fellow. His multimedia works have been presented by New York’s LaMaMa, Experimental Theater Club, in solo exhibitions at HOWL! Happening in NYC, the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano in Lima, Peru, the LGBTQ Centre in Paris, and group exhibitions at New York’s Museum of Art and Design, BRIC, Leslie Lohman Museum of Lesbian and Gay Art, The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History. His video installation, Paris, 1938, was featured in Paris’ NUIT BLANCHE 2017.