Frieze Impact Prize
Image: Narsiso Martinez, Cara Cara, 2021. Ink, Charcoal, Gouache, Collage and Matte Gel on Produce Box, 43 x 35 Inches. Photo: ofstudio. Courtesy the artist, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.
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Narsiso Martinez
Frieze Impact Prize
California-based artist Narsiso Martinez has been named the winner of Frieze’s Impact Prize for his work addressing the immigrant experience within the U.S agriculture industrial complex. According to Frieze, Impact Prize winners are chosen for their “impact on contemporary art and society.” Martinez’s work is a powerful reminder of how vital Central and South Americans living in the United States are to California and to the agriculture industry. According to the Center for Farmworker Families, between one third and one half of all farmworkers in the US live in California and roughly 75% of California farmworkers are undocumented.
2023 YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award
Image: Cornelius Tulloch, Bougainvillea: An Exploration of Adornment, site-specific installation for the Faena Art Project Room, 2022.
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Cornelius Tulloch
YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award
The YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award has been given to Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and designer Cornelius Tulloch. His practice transcends the barriers of photography, fine art, installation, performative activations and architecture to demonstrate how the boundaries of creative mediums can be bridged to tell powerful stories. His works are distinctive for their cinematic approach to storytelling, spatial complexity and use of lighting and color.
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Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowships
Image: José Parlá
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Jammie Holmes
José Parlá
Fellowship in Art
Jammie Holmes and José Parlá are the recipients of the 2023 Gordon Parks Foundation fellowships in art. Jammie Holmes is a self-taught painter from Thibodaux, Louisiana, whose work tells the story of contemporary life for many black families in America. Through portraiture and tableaux, Holmes depicts stories of the celebrations and struggles of everyday life, with particular attention paid to a profound sense of place. José Parlá established a style of painting that transforms street language into a hybrid form of abstraction and urban realism. His work provides markers of time, and is about the accumulation of information that settles like accretions upon the surfaces of walls and streets, like the lines on the hands and faces of the people who inhabit them.
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FRAME Awards
Image: ANNA Stay by Cabin ANNA, Werkendam, Netherlands, completion 2022.
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ANNA Stay by Cabin ANNA
Winner of the Month for January
The ANNA Stay cabin designed by Cabin ANNA is the winner of the FRAME Awards 2023's January round, for its innovation in sustainability and wellbeing. The 30-sq-m space in Werkendam, the Netherlands, is designed with a two protective sliding aluminium shells which can be opened to unveil the glass structure. The wooden exterior acts as an insulation and privacy layer and offers guests with a fully immersive experience in nature. The jury recognized the project for its practical, aesthetic and sustainable approach. ‘This is a great example of design and engineering working hand-in-hand,’ says Marianne Stroyeva, senior retail design manager at Adidas.
Prix Meret Oppenheim 2023
Image: Uriel Orlow, Botanical Dreams, 2016. Tirage numérique sur papier. Courtesy de l'artiste et Mor Charpentier, Paris, © Adagp, Paris, 2022.
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Uriel Orlow
Prix Meret Oppenheim in Art
The artist Uriel Orlow was awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim 2023 alongside the art historian Stanislaus von Moos and the architecture platform Parity Group. Orlow's work focuses on specific locations and micro-histories and brings together multiple image-regimes and narrative modes. His projects engage with residues of colonialism, spatial manifestations of memory, social and ecological justice. Working with plants as political actors, he maps out more-than-human entanglements and different forms of witnessing and resistance. In Orlow’s work, the exhibition space becomes a terrain for exploration and reflection that invites visitors to become active participants.
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2023 David C. Driskell Prize
Image: Ebony G. Patterson, ...the wailing...guides us home...and there is a bellying on the land..., 2021. Mixed media on jacquard woven photo tapestry and custom vinyl wallpaper, 120 x 157 x 12 in / 10 x 13 x 1 feet, 304.8 x 398.8 x 30.5 cm.
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Ebony G. Patterson
David C. Driskell Prize
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has given its 2023 David C. Driskell Prize to artist Ebony G. Patterson, who is based in Chicago and Kingston, Jamaica. Patterson is known for her monumental, baroque installations that gather together beads, fabric, children’s toys, archival images, and a lot more. Her complex compositions, which at first may appear celebratory, draw the viewer in to discover deeper truths relating to race-based class issues, social division and political violence. These interrogations explore the legacies inherent in postcolonial spaces, often memorializing and honoring the lives of those who have been deemed socially invisible or “unvisible.”
