LUBAINA HIMID: Make Do and Mend
Sept 13, 2024 – Feb 8, 2025

The FLAG Art Foundation
545 West 25th Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10001

The recipient of the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize, LUBAINA HIMID presents Make Do and Mend, a solo exhibition comprising two new bodies of work: a suite of Strategy paintings that depict Black men and women seated around tables featuring different configurations of objects—in each case, imagining a specific problem to be solved; and an arrangement of sixty four plank paintings entitled Aunties, building on her previous plank works that evoke the form of funerary objects from East Africa. This exhibition is co-organized by The Contemporary Austin.

With these two new bodies of work, Himid intensifies a focus on power relations, material history and social engagement. Her paintings, whether on canvas or wood plank, allow for the development of new strategies for personal comprehension and social connection.

Make Do and Mend is accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalogue co-published by The Contemporary Austin, FLAG, and Dancing Foxes, including contributions by the artist; Alex Klein, Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary Austin; Jonathan Rider, Director of The FLAG Art Foundation; Julie Le, Assistant Curator, The Contemporary Austin; Dorothy Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art; and Zoe Whitley, Director of Chisenhale Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

For more information, please visit the exhibition website.