Felandus Thames, She Did What She Could, 2025

Felandus Thames, Minute by Minute, 2024

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Jerrell Gibbs, Longing, 2024

Ronald Jackson, Neither Do I Confirm or Deny My Involvement, 2025

Bria Sterling Wilson, My American Gothic, 2025

Felandus Thames, She Did What She Could, 2025

]]> 48198 https://galeriemyrtis.net/the-armory-show-2025/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:42:02 +0000 https://galeriemyrtis.net/?p=48168 Read More]]> The Armory Show

September 5–7, 2025

Javits Center
429 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Ticket Information

Galerie Myrtis – Booth F1

Jerrell Gibbs | Ronald Jackson
Bria Sterling-Wilson | Felandus Thames

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The Armory Show opens New York’s fall art season by bringing the world’s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to the Javits Center each year. The fair emphasizes thoughtful programming, elevated presentations, curatorial excellence, meaningful institutional partnerships, and engaging public art activations.

Galerie Myrtis will make its debut at The Armory Show, featuring artwork in a special exhibition titled Focus. The exhibition highlights artists and galleries of the American South—a vital region to the American art landscape, and home to some of the country’s most celebrated artists—investigating the region as a nexus for diverse populations and a pillar in contemporary American art.

August 30 – October 11, 2025

Opening Reception
Saturday, August 30 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM

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Galerie Myrtis is pleased to present The Brave: Affirming Power, Presence & Possibility, a powerful group exhibition curated by Myrtis Bedolla. On view from August 30 through October 11, 2025, the exhibition features contemporary artists whose work explores the emotional, historical, and imaginative landscapes of the African diaspora.

Inspired by the anthemic lyrics of Danielle Ponder’s Some of Us Are Brave, the exhibition centers artists who examine the complexities of Black freedom, the weight of injustice, and the radical potential of self-definition. Through painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, and installation, The Brave calls forth a collective testimony that honors ancestral strength, celebrates embodied truth, and demands space for joy, grief, intimacy, and transformation.

Featured artists: Devin Allen, Lavett Ballard, Wesley Clark, Jerrell Gibbs, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Felandus Thames, Megan Lewis, Delita Martin, Ronald Jackson, M. Scott Johnson, Ya La’Ford, James Seward, and Bria Wilson-Sterling.

This exhibition celebrates the rich history of black religious and spiritual traditions while also challenging the ways in which these practices continue to evolve and adapt in response to contemporary social and cultural realities.

Featured artists: Tawny Chatmon, Wesley Clark, Morel Doucet, Monica Ikegwu,M. Scott Johnson, Delita Martin, and Felandus Thames.

Programming includes a book signing for “Shifting Time: African American Artists 2020-2021” on Saturday, September 16th from 5 – 7 pm. The event is in collaboration with the Petrucci Family Foundation (PFF). Claudia Volpe, the Director of PFF, and essayists Klare Scarborough and Berrisford Boothe will join featured artists for the event.

artwork
Light in the Darkness II, 2023
Oil Paint on Canvas, 24 x 18″
by Monica Ikegwu

Galerie Myrtis announces our participation in CONTEXT Art Miami featuring new works from Tawny Chatmon, Morel Doucet, Monica Ikegwu, Megan Lewis, Delita Martin, and Felandus Thames at Booth A3.

Fair Hours
(VIP Preview) Tuesday, November 29 — 6:30pm – 10pm
Wednesday, November 30 — 11am – 7pm
Thursday, December 1 — 11am – 7pm
Friday, December 2 — 11am – 7pm
Saturday, December 3 — 11am – 7pm
Sunday, December 4 — 11am – 6pm
TICKETS & INFORMATION

Personal Structures, July 2022
The Beauty and Confidence of Blackness

The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined. With this installation, Galerie Myrtis seeks to provide insight into the socio-political concerns of the African-American community and celebrates black culture by paying tribute to the reliance, creativity, ingenuity, and spirituality that has historically sustained Black people, bringing it into a completely new set of Venetian landscapes. full article

Glasstire, June 2022
10 Works from the Venice Biennale that I Wish the Fort Worth Modern Would Acquire by Colette Copeland

[Tawny] Chatmon’s gold-leafed photographic portraits celebrate the beauty of black childhood. Inspired by 15th century Italian artists and artisans, as well as gold-inscribed historical relics, the artist juxtaposes the portraits onto historical landscape paintings as an act of affirmation. full article

New York Public Library, 2022
Tribute to an Afrofuturist Deity: Schomburg Center Artist & Educator M. Scott Johnson Exhibits at 59th Venice Biennale

…The stone chips were flying as M. Scott Johnson, a sculptor and visual arts instructor at the Center’s Junior Scholars Program, began work on the first sculpture of his triptych, The Metamorphosis of High John the Conqueror: Tribute to an Afrofuturist Deity. full article

Artlyst, April 2022
Eight Of The Best Collateral Events – 59th Venice Biennale by Lee Sharrock

Myrtis Bedolla, founding director of Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore MD, has curated a breathtaking group exhibition at the European Cultural Centre in Palazzo Bembo. Titled ‘The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined’, the exhibition groups together 8 artists who are reclaiming the inequality of white art history from the point of view of a black narrative… full article

Pigmment Magazine, 2022
Venice says “BENVENUTO to Galerie Myrtis in 2022

[Galerie Myrtis] is the first Black-owned gallery to be invited to participate in the Biennale-affiliated “Personal Structures: Time Space and existence.” The gallery was invited to the prestigious show by the European Cultural Centre-Italy. full article

Black art in America, April 2022
Galerie Myrtis: Exhibiting Black Art at The Venice Biennale by Shantay Robinson

By invitation of the European Cultural Centre-Italy, Galerie Myrtis is the first black-owned gallery to be invited to participate in the Biennale-affiliated exhibition Personal Structures: Time, Space, and Existence. This historic moment is predated by the 2020 racial reckoning the world experienced. full article

Culture Type, August, 2021
Latest News in Black Art: Guggenheim Hires Diversity Chief, Galerie Myrtis Presenting Exhibition at Venice Biennale, Kehinde Wiley Redesigns MTV Moonperson & More by Victoria L. Valentine

Galerie Myrtis Fine Art & Advisory of Baltimore, Md., was invited to participate in Personal Structures, an affiliate exhibition at the 2022 Venice Biennale. The Black-owned gallery founded by Myrtis Bedolla will present “The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined,” featuring eight artists—Tawny Chatmon, Larry Cook, Morel Doucet, Monica Ikegwu, M. Scott Johnson, Delita Martin, Arvie Smith, and Felandus Thames. full article

Cleveland Art Museum, March, 2022
Resistance in Black and White

Within the exhibition, Jack Whitten’s large-scale monochromatic abstraction, Rho I (1977) is paired with Felandus Thames’s African King of Dubious Origins (2022), an intricately beaded reproduction of a 1990s black-and-white photograph of Rodney King after he’d been beaten by four Los Angeles police officers. full article

Artsy, September, 2021
5 Artists on Our Radar This September – Artsy Curatorial and Artsy Editorial [mention of Felandus Thames]

[Thames] will also be featured in the 2022 exhibition “The Afro‐Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined,” presented by Galerie Myrtis at the Venice Biennale. Thames’s work has also been shown at the Mississippi Museum of Art, Real Art Ways, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Kravets Wehby Gallery, Tilton Gallery, the International Print Center New York, and the African American Museum of Philadelphia… full article

Culture Type, August, 2021
Latest News in Black Art: Guggenheim Hires Diversity Chief, Galerie Myrtis Presenting Exhibition at Venice Biennale, Kehinde Wiley Redesigns MTV Moonperson & More by Victoria L. Valentine

Galerie Myrtis Fine Art & Advisory of Baltimore, Md., was invited to participate in Personal Structures, an affiliate exhibition at the 2022 Venice Biennale. The Black-owned gallery founded by Myrtis Bedolla will present “The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined” featuring eight artists—Tawny Chatmon, Larry Cook, Morel Doucet, Monica Ikegwu, M. Scott Johnson, Delita Martin, Arvie Smith, and Felandus Thames. full article

Vanity Fair, May 2021
The Power of Black Art and Visual Storytelling by June Sarpong [mention of Felandus Thames]

A year since the murder of George Floyd, the art world is finally acknowledging Black artists and curators—and recognising the influence of their imagery has never been more significant. In Baltimore, Myrtis Bedolla’s Galerie Myrtis is experiencing demand for Felandus Thames’ thought-provoking work. full article

Connecticut Art Review, March, 2021
Studio Visit | Felandus Thames by Jacquelyn Gleisner

Pleasure. This is the first word that viewers will connect with the work of Felandus Thames at his solo show The Things That Haunt Me Still at Real Art Ways. Bright orange beads pop against a vibrant kelly green backdrop in this central work. The bold, seraphic font alludes to the colors and diction of advertisements for Newport cigarettes from the 1980s. full article