Feb 18, 2024

N’Namdi Contemporary

TYLONN SAWYER: AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM

December 5th - February 19th, 2024

N’Namdi Contemporary is pleased to announce America Has A Problem with Tylonn Sawyer featuring works that focus on the intersection of history, politics, and pop culture. The exhibition dates are December 5th to February 19th, 2024. An opening reception will be held Friday, December 8th, 2023 from 6pm – 9pm.

Tylonn Sawyer is an American multidisciplinary artist educator and curator from Detroit, Michigan. Trained in the figurative arts based practices, Sawyer’s work juxtaposes themes of identity-both individual and collective with investigations of race and history in pop culture.

Utilizing media-derived images, art history, and popular culture as a source material, Sawyer’s works investigate the landscape of American history to present a new paradigm in the chronicle of African American people living in the United States. America Has A Problem expands on these practices with an emphasis on the Florida legislature and the United States at large with some of the recent Supreme Court decisions and what this means for his community. This is the first time Sawyer will be approaching his body of work from a queer perspective addressing the issues and what it means to be a black queer American.

N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami was established in 2012 and is based in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, FL. Founded by second-generation art dealer Jumaane N’Namdi, the gallery’s program dates back to Detroit in 1997 and has expanded to Chicago, New York and now with a focus in Miami. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday from 11am – 6pm. For more
information, please visit nnamdicontemporary.com.

About N’Namdi Contemporary

Jumaane N’Namdi, director of N’Namdi Contemporary Miami and N’Namdi Contemporary Chicago, was introduced to the professional art world at the age of six. It was at this time in 1981, when his father, George, founded the G.R. N’Namdi Gallery in Detroit, Mi. Reared in the gallery business and amid an extensive family art collection, Jumaane developed his innate appreciation and understanding for the interrelationship of art, artist and collector.

Upon graduation from Morehouse College in 1997, Jumaane, begin his formal career in the arts at what was then the burgeoning G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Chicago. His discerning eye began to distinguish great pieces from good ones, making it possible for his art patrons to meet world-renowned artists and to develop some of the country’s most prestigious art collections. While under his father’s tutelage, Jumaane quickly assumed the directorship of G.R. N’Namdi Gallery Chicago and subsequently G.R. N’Namdi Gallery New York.

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