Myrtis Bedolla joins Pigment International for closing Salon Talk for Black Fine Art Month 2022

Pigment International?will host a?Black Fine Art Month (BFAM) 2022?Salon Talk Friday, October 21, 2022 at the?DuSable Black History Museum & Education Center?featuring gallerist and curator?Myrtis Bedolla. The event, titled,?‘Black Fine Art – The Gilded Age’??traces Bedolla’s 2022, that included mounting?The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined?for the European Cultural Center (ECC) during the 59th?Venice Biennale.????The event will be held in the Ames Auditorium in the Museum located in Washington Park.??Doors open at 6:00 with light refreshments.??

Bedolla’s eponymous,?Galerie Myrtis,?is an emerging blue-chip gallery and art advisory specializing in twentieth and twenty-first-century American art with a focus on work created by African American artists.??Pigment Internationalcovered the opening of her Venice exhibition featuring?photography-based artist?Tawny Chatmon,?sculptor?M. Scott Johnson,?printmaker?Delita Martin, painter?Arvie Smith,?photographer?Larry Cook,?multidisciplinary artist?Morel Doucet,?figurative painter?Monica Ikegwu,?and conceptual artist?Felandus Thames.?

The works offer discourse into African Americans' socio-political concerns and pays tribute to the resiliency, creativity, and spirituality that have historically sustained Black people. The exhibition, which continues in Venice through November 27, was so striking that Lee Sharrock included?Blackness Reimagined?in his piece?"Eight of the Best Collateral Events - 59th Venice Biennale."???Read our coverage?here.?

Bedolla, in conversation with Pigment International founder Patricia Andrews-Keenan will share what this pivotal year has been like and what’s ahead.??Most recently, Bedolla partnered with??Christie’s for their September 29?“Post-War to Present”?sale, contributing six works by artists she represents. The works were by Martin, Cook, Johnson, Ikegwu Doucet, and Chatmon.?Bedolla visited Chicago during Expo in April; and Pigment was at?Featherstone Center for the Arts?in Martha’s Vineyard where she exhibited works by Chatmon and?Lavett Ballard?this August.??Currently, Bedolla is in Venice attending?“Loophole of Retreat: Venice”?a three-day retreat of dialogues, performances and presentations centered on Black women’s intellectual and creative labor organized by?Rashida Bumbray?along with other curatorial advisors,?as part of the barrier breaking exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion by Chicago native Simone Leigh.????

“Pigment International is proud to have been present for what has been a pivotal year for Galerie Myrtis”, said Andrews-Keenan.??“We’ve already had one amazing conversation post the Biennale, but now there is so much more she can share with the audience.??It is a not to be missed conversation.”??

This year BFAM has explored the continuing global influence Chicago area creatives are exerting through the themeBlack Fine Art – The Gilded Age. Chicago native?Simone Leigh?was the first Black woman artist to represent the U.S. during the?59th?Edition of the Venice Biennale de?Arte,?the world’s premier art event.??And hers is just one of the hundreds of stories about Chicago area creatives – past and present – influencing the global art landscape.

Hosts for the event are?Bruce and Vicki Heyman,?Steve and Patricia Blessman?and?Rodney and Andrea Herenton.??Partnering for this event are?DuSable Black History Museum & Education Center, photographer Tony Smith and the African American Arts Alliance.?

You may RSVP for the event?here.??A full calendar of BFAM events may be found?here.??

ABOUT?Black Fine Art Month (BFAM)?

Held each October is a global?celebration of the Black fine art aesthetic, an annual?recognition of?artists, innovators, collectors, curators and those vested in the Black Art tradition, and an opportunity to commemorate and elevate these contributions through programming that highlights our constituents – artists, art collectors, curators, gallerists, educators and others.?BFAM is an initiative of?Pigment International??BFAM was founded in 2019 and has been entered into the?Congressional Record?by Congresswoman Robin Kelly. E-mail?[email protected]?for questions.??

About Pigment International?

Pigment International??is a Black woman founded and led multi-media platform?reporting on the art, people, issues, trends, and events shaping Black contemporary art?and examining the linkages connecting historical and contemporary Black art. Founded in 2018 in Chicago, Pigment serves as a connector within our community of Black creators, collectors, curators, investors, and other stakeholders.?We are conveners, bringing together the Black art ecosystem for inspiring, cross generational dialogue. We are the publishers of Pigment Magazine and founders of Black Fine Art Month?.??Follow Pigment International on?FB?and?IG.??See our Annual report?here.??At Pigment International we tell stories!?