In Context: Africans in America

<b>The exhibition <b><i>Africans in America </i></b>is held across Goodman Gallery’s Johannesburg location and the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Together with it's partner exhibition </b><b>Where We Are at Goodmann Gallery in Cape Town<i>, <b><i>Africans in America</i></b> </i>is</b><b> presented in association with the major international conference </b>Black Portraiture[s] III: Reinventions: Strains of Histories and Cultures .

<b><b><i>Africans in America </i>is</b> part of In Context 2016, an ongoing curatorial series that the gallery initiated in 2010.</b>

</a> Installation view of 'Africans in America' at JAG , Daàpò Reo, ALCOHOLOTOPIA (A GEOPOLITICAL DREAM UNDER THEINFLUENCE), 2016, Cotton, polyester, 274.4 x 152.4 cm,</figure>

</a> Installation view of 'Africans in America' courtesy of Goodmann Gallery</figure>

</a> Installation view of 'Africans in America' Wangechi Mutu, Flower head, 2015, Mixed media 111.8 x 81.3 x 33 cm, Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London</figure>

</a> Installation view of 'Africans in America' from left to roght: Ghada Amer, La Leçon de grammaire-RFGA, 2015, Acrylic, Dried Pastel, Embroidery & Gel Medium on Canvas 182.9 x 203.2 cm, © Ghada Amer. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York; Wangechi Mutu, Flower head, 2015 , Mixed media 111.8 x 81.3 x 33 cm / I'm too misty, 2015, Collage painting on linoleum 101.6 x 83.8 cm, Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London</figure>

</a> Installation view of 'Africans in America' Odili Donald Odita, Van Gogh's Trees, 2016, Acrylic latex on laminated panel, 245 x 122cm, © Odili Donald Odita</figure>

</a> Installation view of 'Africans in America' from left to right: Carrie Mae Weems, The Capture of Angela, 2008, Archival pigment print, 155 x 129 x 6cm (framed) Edition of 5 / Mourning, 2008, Archival pigment print, 155 x 130 x 6cm (framed), Edition of 5 / The Assassination of Medger, Malcolm and Martin, 2008, Archival pigment print, 155 x 130 x 4.5cm (framed), Edition of 5 ; in the front: Theaster Gates, Afrostack, 2012, Concrete, porcelain, glass and book, 128.3 x 32.1 x 31.3 cm © Theaster Gates. Photo © White Cube (Edouard Fraipont)</figure>

</a> Installation view of 'Africans in America' from left to right: Carrie Mae Weems, The Assassination of Medger, Malcolm and Martin, 2008; Theaster Gates, Afrostack, 2012, Concrete, porcelain, glass and book , 128.3 x 32.1 x 31.3 cm © Theaster Gates. Photo © White Cube (Edouard Fraipont); Carrie Mae Weems, Constructing History, A Requiem to Mark the Moment, 2008 , Video 24 minutes Edition of 5</figure>

</a> Installation view of 'Africans in America' Wangechi Mutu, Eat Cake, 2012, Video, 12 minutes, 51 seconds, Edition of 6, Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London</figure>

</a> Installation view of 'Africans in America' from left to right: Kehinde Wiley John Mensah, 2010, Oil on canvas with artist’s frame, 72 x 60 cm, Courtesy of the Zeitz Collection (Founding Collection, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa) ; Alfredo Jaar, One million points of light, 2005, Light box 45 x 60 x 12 cm, Edition of 3</figure>

</a> Installation view of 'Africans in America' , from left to right: Odili Donald Odita, Highway, 2015, Acrylic latex on laminated panel 245 x 122cm, © Odili Donald Odita ; Julie Mehretu, Epigraph, Damascus, 2016, 6 panels; Photogravure, sugar lift aquatint, spit bite aquatint, openbite Hahnemühle Bütten 350 gr. Paper each 217 x 87 cm; Frame total size 248 x 574 cm, Edition of 16, © Julie Mehretu ; Ghada Amer, La Leçon de grammaire-RFGA, 2015, Acrylic, Dried Pastel, Embroidery & Gel Medium on Canvas, 182.9 x 203.2 cm, © Ghada Amer. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York</figure>