19/05/2026
KATES-FERRI PROJECTS & DANA ROBINSON FEATURED IN OBSERVER”
“Artists to Watch: 1-54’s Best Discoveries”
Publications such as Ebony and Jet were not only among the first major Black-owned magazines but also key platforms that documented Black American culture with a sense of visibility and agency. Brooklyn-based artist Dana Robinson grounds her practice in archival research into these specific media sources, which helped define and crystallize the vibrancy of Black American culture, drawing from vintage Ebony magazine advertisements that once celebrated Black excellence, aspiration and self-determination. In her work, these images are translated through a meticulous process into linoleum print compositions on panel, stripped of their original commercial context and re-rendered through printmaking. In this way, they are not only revisited but crystallized and rematerialized with a different physical presence, a sensual materiality and another register of attention. Yet this remediation also introduces a productive instability into the image: newly mediated, it blurs into a site where meaning is both preserved and unsettled, pointing to how narratives of Black life and representation have historically been circulated and reframed. Rather than simply preserving these images, Robinson’s practice opens a space to reconsider how representation, consumer culture and visibility have shaped constructions of Black identity. All works at the fair were priced at $5,000.
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DM for available artworks by Dana Robinson
Thank you Elisa Carollo and Observer
