Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Howardena Pindell: A New Language with writer Jamie Danis.

FREE, come along

About Howardena Pindell: A New Language

Howardena Pindell (b. 1943, Philadelphia) is a major contemporary artist based in the US. This is the first UK museum presentation of her work. Encompassing the poetic and the political, Pindell’s remarkable practice over six decades draws from her own experience as an artist, teacher and activist. Her compelling and beautiful works of art often respond to the social and political realities of our time, calling for urgent engagement and action.

About Jamie Danis

Jamie Danis is the Sydney Ehrman Fellow and a King’s College and Cambridge Trust Scholar in the Department of History of Art at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Dr. Amy Tobin. Her PhD research focuses on silence as a political and aesthetic strategy as engaged by American artists from approximately 1960 to 1990.

Jamie earned her B.A. in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley (2020, Highest Distinction in General Scholarship, Highest Honors in History of Art, departmental Valedictorian). She subsequently received her M.A. in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2021, High Distinction, with a dissertation on Howardena Pindell). She has previously held positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Access

The galleries on the ground floor are fully wheelchair accessible. They can be accessed easily from the entrance area by steps or a ramp.

The Clore Learning Studio is fully wheelchair accessible. It can be reached by stairs or by lift, to the basement -1 floor. There is an accessible toilet with baby changing facilities in the basement beside the Learning Studio. There are more toilets and facilities on the ground and first floors.

Content warning

Some works in the exhibition deal with challenging and upsetting adult themes.