{"id":57192,"date":"2025-12-31T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=57192"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:52:11","slug":"theaster-gates-chosen-for-major-commission-at-the-obama-presidential-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2025\/12\/theaster-gates-chosen-for-major-commission-at-the-obama-presidential-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Theaster Gates Chosen for Major Commission at the Obama Presidential Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57193\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3D_Rendering_of_the_Barack_Obama_Presidential_Center.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57193\" class=\"wp-image-57193\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3D_Rendering_of_the_Barack_Obama_Presidential_Center-300x200.png\" alt=\"A 3d rendering of a large white building.\" width=\"290\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3D_Rendering_of_the_Barack_Obama_Presidential_Center-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3D_Rendering_of_the_Barack_Obama_Presidential_Center.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Barack Obama Presidential Center in a 3D artist&#8217;s rendering<\/p><\/div>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"150\">American artist Theaster Gates has been selected to create a new work for the Barack Obama Presidential Center, set to open in Chicago in spring 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"1006\">Gates is a professor in the University of Chicago\u2019s Department of Visual Arts, as well as the director of artist initiatives at the Colby College Museum of Art\u2019s Lunder Institute for American Art. His work primarily focuses on the intersection of space and race, examining urban life and underserved or marginalized communities. He has exhibited at museums and cultural institutions around the world, including the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London, Tate Liverpool, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Fondazione Prada in Milan. Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett referred to him as \u201cthe ideal artist for this marquee space. His boundless creativity, commitment to public art, passion for educating and sharing art with others, and gift for translating history into the present make him a singular talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1008\" data-end=\"2074\">While much of his work is primarily sculptural or installation-based, Gates\u2019s commission for the Obama Center will be a pair of friezes for the Hadiya Pendleton Atrium. Regarding the subject, he plans to focus on daily life among Black Americans in the twentieth century. To do so, he will draw on a source of great cultural significance: the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) archives, the former owner of <em data-start=\"1414\" data-end=\"1421\">Ebony<\/em> and <em data-start=\"1426\" data-end=\"1431\">Jet<\/em> magazines. Both publications were not only news sources but also spaces where Black American writers, photographers, and artists could have their work published and distributed free from the constraints of mainstream American media. For much of the twentieth century, a large swath of American media frequently excluded or belittled Black Americans, their lives, and their culture. In periodicals such as <em data-start=\"1837\" data-end=\"1844\">Ebony<\/em> and <em data-start=\"1849\" data-end=\"1854\">Jet<\/em>, however, Black Americans could more freely represent their communities by <a href=\"https:\/\/ids.si.edu\/ids\/deliveryService?id=NMAAHC-2011_35_1_2_002&amp;max_w=700\">highlighting Black achievements<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk\/retromusings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fashion-1971-Ebony-1971-4-Apr-146.jpg\">showcasing fashion and beauty<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2014\/05\/07\/business\/JET-01\/JET-01-superJumbo.jpg\">drawing attention to civil rights issues<\/a>, especially in the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2076\" data-end=\"2617\">In 2016, JPC liquidated its assets while retaining control of its archives. The company ultimately donated the contents to a consortium of cultural and charitable organizations, including the Getty Research Institute and the Smithsonian, ensuring they would be made available to the public. Having worked for JPC before its dissolution, Gates has extensive knowledge of these archives, having spent almost a decade organizing their contents and ensuring accessibility. The new work will heavily feature photographs drawn from these archives.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2619\" data-end=\"3193\">The frieze will feature approximately twenty images from the JPC archives printed on large aluminum-alloy bands. Gates spoke about his connection to the archival material and the source\u2019s importance, saying that he often strives to create artworks \u201cthat don\u2019t have to do with the creation of a consumable good for the market. And I think that being active in archives is essentially a way of being an informal historian. Lord knows, we need to keep certain truths about history alive so that those histories don\u2019t succumb to these falsehoods that are being generated today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3195\" data-end=\"4000\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The Obama Center has commissioned several artists to create new work for the space, including Nick Cave, Nekisha Durrett, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Kiki Smith, and Marie Watt. According to Virginia Shore, curator of art commissions, President Obama has been involved in selecting these artists. Durrett has created a sculpture titled <a href=\"https:\/\/images.ctfassets.net\/l7h59hfnlxjx\/2EptPQ7afxIzJ3KzcTCVhe\/258d012c700bafb8e88b1007a51f4c3d\/Hem_of_Heaven_Rendering.png?q=75&amp;w=1670&amp;fm=\"><em data-start=\"3532\" data-end=\"3547\">Hem of Heaven<\/em><\/a>, made from painted ceramic tiles in a reimagining of Harriet Tubman\u2019s shawl. Meanwhile, Holzer will make a \u201ctext-based painting draw[ing] from FBI files on the Civil Rights\u2013era Freedom Riders.\u201d In a press release announcing the Gates commission, the Obama Center commented that the work \u201creflects on the power of collective resilience and honors the everyday individuals whose lives and practices sustain and enshrine movements for justice and change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American artist Theaster Gates has been selected to create a new work for the Barack Obama Presidential Center, set to open in Chicago in spring 2026. 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