Entering Jack Shainman Gallery's Twentieth Street location for Odili Donald Odita's recent exhibition, viewers were met with The Other Side of the Wall (2018), a beautiful large-scale painting on…
An African-American woman who turned to painting full-time at age sixty-nine, Alma Thomas faced many professional barriers—and overcame them all with her colorful mosaiclike abstractions.
Eight large-scale paintings on canvas and walls (all 2010), and an earlier piece on Plexiglas, comprised Odili Donald Odita's second solo at Jack Shainman. All nine are showstoppers. Odita continues…