{"id":9044,"date":"2020-12-08T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=9044"},"modified":"2020-12-08T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:30:45","slug":"derek-fordjour-at-petzel-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/08\/derek-fordjour-at-petzel-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Fordjour at Petzel Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Fordjour\u2019s tour de force exhibition at Petzel Gallery<\/a> includes two dramatic sculptural installations, a puppet show performed twice daily and two distinct bodies of collaged 2-D work, each as powerful as the next.\u00a0 Continuing to address themes of systemic racism in the US, Fordjour was prompted by George Floyd\u2019s death to directly address Black grief, mourning and the specter of death in several powerful paintings.\u00a0 He also returns to his signature themes of performance and games to consider the complex lives of Black performers in the spotlight.\u00a0 The synchronized swimmers in this image join marching bands, dancers, jugglers who occupy ambiguous identities as they keep the show on the road.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Dec 19th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Masks and social distancing are required.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Derek Fordjour, Cadence, acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, oil paste, foil and glitter on newspaper mounted on canvas, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Derek Fordjour\u2019s tour de force exhibition at Petzel Gallery includes two dramatic sculptural installations, a puppet show performed twice daily and two distinct bodies of collaged 2-D work, each as powerful as the next.\u00a0 Continuing to address themes of systemic racism in the US, Fordjour was prompted by George Floyd\u2019s death to directly address Black … <\/p>\n

Read more “Derek Fordjour at Petzel Gallery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,9125,586,9123,13,8639,930,3368,9124,9126,16],"class_list":["post-9044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-cadence","tag-collage","tag-derek-fordjour","tag-gallery","tag-newyorkarttours","tag-petzel","tag-sport","tag-swimmers","tag-synchronized","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2lS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9046,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions\/9046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}