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Arts manager, writer, and the founder of Dominique Gallery, Dominique Clayton, speaks with first-time Venice Art Walk participating artists Hasef, Alicia Piller and Trotter. Together, they discussed the evolution of art and activism. They also shared the power and allyship community organizations, local artists and patrons can create as they strive to address social and racial justice.
Hasef’s artwork explores ideas, various looks of blackness, historical research, travel, and found objects. He uses these methods to create conceptual artworks that incorporate drawings, paintings, digital art, and photography. Viewers are introduced to black body shapes, familiar objects, plants, bright colors and faces.
Orange Sunday, 2021
Oil Pastel on Archival
Museum Paper
Signed recto
24 x 38”
Mimicking forms of cellular biology as a method to locate the root of human histories; Alicia Piller’s mixed media practice is as much about materiality as it is about content. Capturing the energy surrounding physical matter and/or a particular situation is key; presently questioning the current state of our times. Examining traumatic histories, she uses her own body (and others) to activate a sculptural work. She documents these moments with digital photography and video, later utilizing the photos as objects within a sculptural piece. The construction of each work becomes a biological unfolding of time, that begins to examine the energy around wounds left by historical traumas.
Foundations, 2013 – 2021
Watercolor, vinyl, resin, wood veneer, garnet, freshwater pearl, glass, agate.
Signed verso
14.75 x 12.75 x 0.75”
Samuel Trotter is a photographer based in Detroit and New York City.
Don’t Cry, 2018
Edition 1/5
Red River 60lb polar matte
Signed recto
16 x 20”
Courtesy of the artist and Dominique Gallery
Dominique Clayton is a Los Angeles native and works as an arts manager, writer, and is the founder of Dominique Gallery, a storefront and virtual exhibition space highlighting emerging artists of color and women. After a 10 year career working in film and performing arts in New York, Los Angeles and West Africa, Clayton shifted her focus to visual art and now focuses on enhancing diversity and representation in galleries, institutions and publications. In laying the foundation for her gallery, Clayton recognized the limited options for minority artists and curators to enter into the industry and established an incubator to support emerging artists in every step from single-handedly editing portfolios, artist statements, bios, CVs, and proposals to applying for grants and residencies, pitching to press, and opening her doors for exhibitions and studio space. Clayton attributes her personal and nurturing approach to artist management to her family, ability to connect the right people, and recognizing when a creative finally needs a “yes” instead of a “no”. Clayton also works at The Broad where she supports the museum’s Founding Director in addition to managing logistics for Broad Collection artists, programming and sponsorship partners, and other key museum constituents. Honoring her own passion for writing, Clayton also maintains a freelance writing practice and has been featured in The Washington Post, Cultured Magazine, LALA Magazine, Sugarcane Magazine, Blavity, 21Ninety and her own forthcoming Black Arts Diary. Clayton holds a masters degree in Business Design and Arts Leadership from SCAD as well as bachelors degree from Columbia University.
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