[Location & Hours]
178 Norfolk St.
New York, New York 10002
Tue - Sat 11:00am-6pm
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+41 76 506 48 08 
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[Artists]
QUALEASHA WOOD
ADA FRIEDMAN

[Current]
QUALEASHA WOOD
Manic Pixie Magical Negro
Nov 10 - Dec 16, 2023
178 Norfolk St
New York City, 10002

[Forthcoming]
ADA FRIEDMAN
@ Art Basel Miami Beach 2023
Dec 6-10, 2023 

*Pre-Preview: A Suite of Three Paintings in New York
Nov 10 - Dec 16, 2023
178 Norfolk St
New York City, 10002

[Past] 
MANUELA MORALES DÉLANO & ROBYN TSINAJINNIE Twenty-first Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations:
EPISODE 7:
Do You Care Too Much?
Sep 8-Oct 21, 2023
Bern


SHARONA FRANKLIN @ Art Basel
Bouquet Solutions
Jun 13-18, 2023

DAVID-JEREMIAH @ EXPO Chicago
FOGA: Real Nigga Edition
Apr 13-16, 2023

ANDRÉ MAGAÑA
Riquísimo
Feb 10 - Mar 25, 2023

Bern

TERESA BAKER, SHARONA FRANKLIN, CONSTANZA CAMILA KRAMER GARFIAS @ Art Basel Miami Beach 2022
The Three Fates

ADA FRIEDMAN
Paintings in Pisces
Oct 7 - Dec 17, 2022
Bern

Twenty-first Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations:
EPISODE 6:
OK, Computer
New York City:  Mar 4 - Apr 10, 2022
Basel: Mar 19 - Apr 26, 2022


QUALEASHA WOOD @ Art Basel Miami Beach 2021


DAVID-JEREMIAH 
PLAY
Jan 15 - Mar 20, 2021
The Hamptons


ROSA MENKMAN @ Daata Miami 2020

QUALEASHA WOOD @ NADA Miami Beach 2020

Twenty-first Century Occupatioinal Adjustments and Considerations:
EPISODE 4:
Seating Chart for a Fall Dinner Party in a Pandemic

Sep 16 - Dec 31, 2020
Metro Pictures x Kendra Jayne Patrick Online Exhibition

Twenty-first Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations:
EPISODE 3:
“I told my parents I was babysitting some really rich white folks’ kids”/”Dis here da new time. Let dat be.” 

Jul 2020
KJP for YARD Magazine

JO SHANE, QUALEASHA WOOD, !MEDIENGRUPPE BITNIK, ARDEN SURDAM @ NADA presents, “FAIR” Inaugural Edition 2020

JO SHANE
Sculptures: 1990 - Present
May 2 - Jun 1, 2019
New York City

JOSHUA CITARELLA, LAP-SEE LAM, TATIANA KRONBERG Four as One and Three
Sep
16 - Nov 4, 2018
New York City

Twenty-first Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations: 
EPISODE 2:
One Liners

May 26 - Jun 17, 2018
The Hamptons

Twenty-first Century Occupational Adjustments and Considerations:
EPISODE 1:
Magnification
Jan 17 - Feb 28, 2018
New York City

KENYA (ROBINSON)
Paper Rain for
Invocation Proclamation Manifesto 2 & 3
Sep 28 - 30, 2017
New York City

[Press]
Gallery Press

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[About]
An itinerant art gallery in New York City, USA; a permanent locaton in Bern, Switzerland


















QUALEASHA WOOD 
Manic Pixie, Magical Negro

10 November - 16 December 2023 

 
System Maintenance(2023)
Woven Jacquard, Glass Beads
56 x 82 in
-  
Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay Z (2023) 

Woven Jacquard, Glass Beads
56 x 80 in 


Qualeasha Wood’s latest investigations into digital Black womanhood lead her to the relationship between artificial intelligence and perceptions of the black femme self. AI-engineered face and body filters encoded into Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, et al are far more intensely transformative than their predecessors. Lead by a myth of neutrality - a myth the tech bros cum overlords tell themselves over and over about the character of the systems they develop - the digital tools that alter bodies on social media surreptitiously and instantaneously impose Eurocentric beauty ideals upon us in overbearing ways.


For women of color, long harried by the pressure to meet those standards, Wood proposes this leading to a new kind of dysmorphia. One wherein Eurocentric beauty standards don’t simply haunt one from the magazine cover or the movie theater or even the trashy celebrity TikTok account. Instead, these standards sit directly on your visage, showing you exactly how green eyes, a dainty nose, a higher cheek as applied to the specifics of your face make ideal beauty *just* within reach. These digital interventions symbolize a complex interaction of technology, identity, and sexual expectations.


She posits that the allure of these filters isn’t merely about beautification, but about finding belonging in a society that regards Black femme culture as a commodity. These instant image alterations can translate to feelings of inadequacy, triggering both depersonalization (a disconnection from one’s own identity) and body dysmorphia (a distorted view of one’s own appearance). Exacerbated by the racial biases of AI filters, these conditions carry deep psychological weight. Wood is thinking heavily about Afro-pessimism and the reduction of self to a casualty of white supremacy.


The broader effects of these systems are also prominent. Among women Qualeasha’s generation and younger, plastic surgery is out in the open, run of the mill, whereas women older than her whisper about it, hoping any work they’ve had done goes unnoticed. “Snapchat dysmorphia” is a term coined by plastic surgeons who have within the last few years noticed an uptick of patients who, instead of bringing in photos of their favorite celebrity whom they want to resemble, now present AI-filtered and AI-edited versions of themselves as aspirational imperatives.



Asl? (2023) 
Tufted Wool and Acrylic 
31.25 x 28 in


(the) Big Comfy Couch (2023)
Tufted Wool and Acrylic
63 x 59.5 in


1312 (cop car piece)(2023)
Tufted Wool and Acrylic
63 x 60.5 in


Got My Eye On You (2023)
Tufted Wool and Acrylic
31.25 x 28 in


Swag Surfin (2023)
Woven Jacquard, Glass Beads
84 x 56 in


~Circumambient~ alt. Asunder (2023)
Woven Jacquard, Glass Beads
80 x 56 in

To Catch a Predator (2023)

Tufted Wool and Acrylic
104 x 82.5 in

Screensaver (2023)
Woven Jacquard, Glass Beads
82 x 56 in


Peep Show (2023)
Woven Jacquard, Glass Beads
56 x 80 in


Keyboard Warrior(The People´s Champ)(2023)
Woven Jacquard, Glass Beads
60 x 160 in