CONDO: hosting Gordon Robichaux, New York

Saturday 18 January 2025

Listen to this recording of a walk-through led by Cynthia Hawkins and Janet Olivia Henry for the opening of their exhibition that was part of Condo London 2025.

Bringing together new and early sculptures by Henry alongside paintings and works on paper by Hawkins, the show celebrated the artists’ long-standing friendship that began in the 1970s at Just Above Midtown (JAM), the trailblazing New York gallery founded by activist and filmmaker Linda Goode Bryant, which foregrounded African American artists and artists of colour. Open from 1974 to 1986, JAM was both a gallery and self-described laboratory for artists, an environment that allowed for risk, experimentation and collaboration; as curator Thelma Golden recently described it, ‘A utopia that we are trying to reach again in all these different manifestations of Black space.’