THANK YOU to @bmoreart & Seshat Yon’shea Walker @seshatyonshea for this incredible review of “I’m Not Your Superwoman” by Baltimore based artist Ada Pinkston @apinkstone at Transformer!
This is the last week to view “I’m Not Your Superwoman”! Come by during gallery hours this week, Weds - Sat, 12-6 pm or DM us to schedule an appointment.
Read “Ada Pinkston is Not Your Superwoman” in Bmore Art Magazine by clicking the #linkinbio🌟
They say trust the process.👇🏽
The process of before, during, and after. Performance is a chosen commitment once you say “Yes, I’ll do it!”. Leading up to the performance as an artist you understand the assignment, moving, shifting, and enduring all life’s ebbs and flows gets tapped into once the performance starts.
Shape-making, gestures, lines, inner rhythm and connectivity are not only considered heavily in the present moment, but it creates transcendent storytelling and magic. There is a depth of past, present, and future that gets pushed to the surface and that is what is novel to both the performer and the audience.
Performing in this iteration of the @makememorymove project with @apinkstone helped build and helped release in so many beautiful ways, I am grateful to have this opportunity to sit and reflect on such an amazing project and performance.
✨Installation & Performance Score: @apinkstone
✨Performance by @apinkstone & @noelle.tolbert
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Merry Christmas!!
Two nights. @wallergallery One show. RSVP required for Saturday’s show. Link in bio. Performance with @apinkstone and @noelle.tolbert starts at 6:30pm. #baltimore
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As part of our Wildest Dreams fundraiser, we’re excited to offer a chance to bid on unique local experiences and collect original works from an incredible lineup of creators — all while supporting a vital cause.
Proceeds support Afro Charities’ 2026 operating expenses, including staff salaries, archival supplies, and the essential work of preserving our shared history.
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Clavel @bar_clavel
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Work featured: Recitaf I, 2024 by Ada Pinkston.
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“Recitative II”
Public performance by Baltimore based artist Ada Pinkston (@apinkstone ) and collaborators
Presented as part of Pinkston’s current exhibition at Transformer: “I’m Not Your Superwoman”
On view Weds - Sat, 12-6 PM through November 9, 2024
I’m honored to be presenting artist Ada Pinkston at Transformer this fall in her first DC solo exhibition! @apinkstone@transformerdc
Launching Transformer’s 22nd Annual Exhibition Series - “I’m Not Your Superwoman” is inspired by the work of Katherine Dunham - the queen mother of black dance - and by artist William Pope.L.
Pinkston performed a ‘crawl’ series at three federal buildings in Washington, DC this summer. The inhabitants and visitors of each building offered a different response, but similar to the ways that police responded to Pope. L in the 90s, those whose job is meant to surveil people in these spaces saw a Black person crawling as a threat.
Repetitive images of Pinkston’s crawl performance documentation are placed throughout Transformer to render and create abstract moments of experiencing her movements within and outside the ‘art space’ context. This image repetition is also intended as a reminder of both the repetitive cycles of the artist’s questions, and the positionality of our bodies.
Come by! Visit & experience the work in person! Exhibition hours Wed -Sat, noon-6pm at Transformer, 1404 P St, NW WDC through November 9.
I’m excited to announce my participation in STATEMENT 2024, the Art Exhibition at The Baltimore MET GALA on September 14th! My work will represent an interpretation of this year’s theme, Adam & Eve: Enter The Garden! Guests are highly encouraged to come dressed in theme as well! Are you coming? If you Click the link in my bio you will see a link for the special early bird discount of $50 off tickets .. scroll down to the “unlocked” section for the discounted tickets and l’ll see you there! @baltimoremetgala
#London, you owe me nothing. Big thanks to @eyonart.prjx and the crew at @mimosahouselondon for the invitation and the hospitality. There’s so much that I learned along the way and so many photos to share.Here are a few photos from my visit to #blackculturalarchivesbrixton .. I arrived on the day that happened to be the first day of #blackaugust when they were doing their rally to start their march for reparations. My flight left that afternoon but I happened to catch the libations ceremony. Here are some pieces of some of these inspiring moments.
Thank you for the invitation @eyonart.prjx ! Deeply honored to be included in this line up of conversations and conjuring. #london see you on the 24th from 6:30p-7:30pm @mimosahouselondon
