SOlo & Group Exhibitions
MOMA- Just Above Midtown: 1974 to the present
Willie Birch’s “ Solid State “ series was created in 1983 and has been never shown before.
FORT GANSEVOORT - NY
Willie Birch
Chronicling Our Lives: 1987-2021
On View: March 3, 2022 through May 21, 2022 Reception: Thursday, March 10, 6–8 PM
New York…Fort Gansevoort is pleased to announce Chronicling Our Lives: 1987-2021, a solo exhibition of works by Louisiana-based artist Willie Birch. Opening Thursday, March 3, 2022, the presentation features large paintings on paper and painted papier-mâché sculptures created between 1987 and 1996, complemented by a new monumental, mural-like work executed in black and white. Together, the thirty works on view reflect Birch’s perspective on the beauty and complexities of the human experience.
Prospect 5
Birch’s works have a careful attention to detail, highlighting patterns in the natural and built environment that give his works a sense of graphic depth and speak to fractal patterns and numerology that are connected to worldviews of the African diaspora.
NOAFA - “Two Versions of the Same Story” The Art of Willie Birch & Tina Freeman
Though Willie Birch and Tina Freeman both fill monumental shoes in New Orleans, the artists’ works have never been presented in as direct of a conversation as in their current two-person exhibition at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Titled “Two Versions of the Same Story: The Art of Willie Birch and Tina Freeman,” the presentation brings together two individual bodies of work that hint at the connections between people and place; process and form; and past and present.
NOMA - Changing Course
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories, an exhibition that celebrates the New Orleans Tricentennial by bringing together a group of seven contemporary art projects that focus on forgotten or marginalized histories of the city. Projects by artists Katrina Andry, Willie Birch, Lesley Dill, L. Kasimu Harris, Skylar Fein, The Everyday Projects, and The Propeller Group each shed light on the past while also looking towards the future, returning to defining moments in New Orleans’ history that continue to frame art and life in the city today.
FACE TO FACE: A SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITURE BY LOUISIANA ARTISTS
Featuring Willie Birch, Douglas Bourgeois, George Dureau, Elizabeth Kleinveld & Epaul Julien, Aubrey Edwards, Deborah Luster, Rashaad Newsome, Tameka Norris, Gina Phillips, Jennifer Shaw, Jonathan Traviesa, and Heather Weathers.
