Our Small Talk series continues into the summer!  

Join Leilani Lynch, Curator at The Bass, and exhibiting artist Jamilah Sabur for a lively and informal conversation. 

Jamilah Sabur’s work, Mnemonic Alphabet (T/Tcápn), 2020, is on view in The Willfulness of Objects.

JAMILAH SABUR

Metaphysics, geology, and memory are recurrent themes in Sabur’s work, with a distinct and poetic interest in language. Sabur will be included in the 2021 triennial Prospect 5: New Orleans “Yesterday we said tomorrow” and the 17th edition of MOMENTA Biennale “Sensing Nature” in Montreal. Her recent solo and group exhibitions include Observations: Selected Works by Jamilah Sabur, University of Maryland Art Gallery (2020); The Willfulness of Objects, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami (2020); Here Be Dragons, Copperfield, London (2020); Time Share, Performa, New York (2020); Open Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (2020); The Last Supper, Faena Art, Miami Beach (2019); Memory Palace, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine (2019) ; The Other Side of Now, Pérez Art Museum, Miami (2019); Parallels and Peripheries, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2019); Stream Gradient, Nina Johnson, Miami (2019); Un chemin escarpé / A steep path, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019); Sabur earned a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (2009), and an MFA from University of California, San Diego (2014). Her work is included in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Bass Museum of Art, and TD Bank Group Art Collection. 

SELECT WEDNESDAYS

Small Talk is our latest virtual series and, just like it sounds, we’re going informal. Join us on Zoom as we introduce and get to know the voices, faces and minds behind works currently on view and in the museum’s collection.