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© Elia Alba. Courtesy of The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.
Exhibition
Elia Alba: The Supper Club
21 Sep 2017 – 12 Jan 2018
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
- 17 West 17th Street
- New York
New York - 10011
- United States
Travel Information
- From Union Square (4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R), walk North and make a left on 17th Street. The 8th Floor will be on your right, following the intersection with 5th Avenue. From 14th Street (F, M), head North and make a right on 17th Street. The 8th Floor will be on your left. From 14th Street (1, 2, 3), head north and make a right on 17th street. The 8th Floor will be on your left following the intersection with 6th Avenue.
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation is pleased to present Elia Alba’s The Supper Club, a solo exhibition focused on racial politics and visual culture.
About
Curated by Sara Reisman, Executive and Artistic Director of The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, The Supper Club is comprised of three components: an ongoing series of socially-engaged dinners, an exhibition of 60 photographic portraits of the artists who participated in the dinner conversations, and a book scheduled for publication in 2018.
The project began in the summer of 2012 with Elia Alba photographing a group of artists of color: David Antonio Cruz, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Las Hermanas Iglesias (Lisa and Janelle Iglesias), Lina Puerta, and Mickalene Thomas. These were followed by a series of dinner conversations that engaged fifty artists of color to “give voice” to members of Alba’s artist community. There have since been 25 dinners that have explored themes like Baltimore, Race, and Identity (in honor of Freddy Gray); the 2016 shootings in Orlando and the need for sanctuary spaces; Black Female Subjectivity; Black Male Subjectivity; and Racial Subjugation in Latin American History. The series of portraits of the dinner guests, at the core of the exhibition, were inspired by Vanity Fair magazine’s annual “Hollywood Issue” and feature the guests in locations and costumes that capture their unique voices, transforming their identities into iconic images.
