Book Launch: Afternoon's Darkness by Somaya Critchlow

8 Dec 2023 7-9pm

Overview

Please join us on Friday 8th December to celebrate the launch of Afternoon's Darkness at Reference Point from 7-9pm.

Afternoon's Darkness is an artist book published following the namesake exhibition by Somaya Critchlow presented at Maximillian William, London during the Fall of 2022. 

Designed by Jules Estèves, the publication features reproductions of all artworks in the exhibition, amongst some of Critchlow's own personal photographs, accompanied by an essay written by curator and writer Alison Gingeras and an interview between Critchlow and Katherine Angel. 

The publication consists of a 32 pages folio book in a fitted box. It was produced in England in an edition of 500 and is published by Maximillian William, London. ISBN: 978-1-8384673-3-3.

Somaya Critchlow (b. 1993, London) lives and works in London. She obtained her BA in Painting at the University of Brighton before joining The Royal Drawing School, London, where she earned a Postgraduate Diploma in 2017. In April 2023, Somaya Critchlow: Paintings and Drawings, the artist’s first institutional show in North America, opened at The FLAG Art Foundation in New York, USA. In autumn of 2023, Critchlow was featured in the group show “Pictures Girls Make”: Portraitures, curated by Alison M. Gingeras at Blum & Poe, LA. Previous solo exhibitions include Afternoon’s Darkness at Maximillian William, London (2022); Blow-Up, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zürich (2021), Underneath a Bebop Moon, Maximillian William, London (2020) and Sincere for Synonym at Fortnight Institute, New York (2019). Critchlow’s work is featured in public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; LACMA, Los Angeles; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; RISD Museum, Providence; ICA Miami, Florida; The Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; The Box, Plymouth; the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Arts Council Collection, London.