“I Said What I Said”- Exhibit at Novado Gallery (Jersey City, NJ)
- Antoinette Ellis-Williams
- Mar 18
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Check out the Antoinette Ellis-Williams work and fellow artist at Novado Gallery's (Jersey City, NJ) exhibit "I Said What I Said" .
Curator (and busy man) Jerome China cooks up an engaging sequel to his excellent 2023 show at Novado Gallery
The characters in “Nocturnal Conversations“ are as much symbols as they are beings. Antoinette Ellis-Williams, who is part of a group show alongside Jerome China now on view at HCCC, achieves her effects through the accretion of evocative things, too. Pages of books, sheet music, columns of numbers, adverts, dictionary definitions, upside-down and yellowing images of Frederick Douglass: they all get slapped together on a canvas, evened out, roughly coated with oil paint, and decorated with curlicues. “In the Beginning II,” an amalgam of bright fabric, thread, paper, prints, and pen filigree, evokes the homespun feel of a quilt, the aspirational significance of a ladder, and the arcane but carefully composed aesthetic of a computer motherboard.
(The Novado Gallery is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. “I Said What I Said” will be on view until April 18.)
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