Amani Olu Has New Ideas

For his recent exhibition After Color at Bose Pacia in Chelsea, 29-year-old New York-based curator amani olu selected a diverse group of young photographers whose stylistic tendencies span from abstraction
to portraiture and whose techniques range from gelatin silver prints to animated GIFs. What draws the  practices of these nine artists together is their conscious embrace of the black-and-white photographic tradition "after color," a choice that olu argues is both an homage to the Conceptual approaches of the 60s and 70s and a response to the domination of color on the contemporary photo market. Tracing this shift in artistic practice, olu makes a claim for a new generation of photographers. olu applied a similarly generational lens in his most notable project, Young Curators, New Ideas, from 2008. The focus, however, shifts from the work of emerging artists to the practices of rising curators.
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