Our traveling exhibition, in collaboration with UNESCO GEM Report (Global Education Monitoring), moved to the Hamptons for summer and fall 2025, expanding on the connections between art, nature, and spirituality with an updated roster of artists, an outdoor sculpture garden, and a program of events with local partners such as the Hamptons International Film Festival. The exhibition and corresponding art book explore nature and spirituality. Two polarizing conversations that tap zeitgeists of the moment.

The Chelsea and Hamptons exhibitions feature over 100 artists who connect with nature and spirituality through their craft, diversified mediums, styles, and the cultural influences at large. Beginning with The Impressionists, through Joan Mitchell, Alexander Calder Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, and the new guard, Petra Cortright, Nicholas Galanin, April Gornik, Ebony G. Patterson, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Allison Janae Hamilton, Doug Aitken, and 50 other artists.

The corresponding art book expounds with forewords by curator Klaus Biesenbach, essays by, Dr Wes Sechrest (Re:wild), and UNESCO GEM Report Director Manos Antoninis. 

BlackBook’s traveling exhibition explores nature and spirituality. Two polarizing conversations of contemporary culture. 

We collaborated with UNESCO GEM Report (Global Education Monitoring) to explore how artists address these themes in their practice. Beginning with the Impressionists, Monet, Signac, Sisley, (painted outdoors; en plein air) and other landscape painters such as the Hudson River School artists, Marsden Hartley, and Edward Hopper, the show weaves a narrative through,Picasso, Dalí, Dubuffet, Calder, Chagall, Arp, Freud, Warhol, Sturtevant, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Chamberlain, Judd, Ruscha, Kusama, Mitchell, Kiefer, Gehry, Cecily Brown, Alex Katz, and the new guard, Aitken, Cortright, Galanin, Gornik, Patterson, Attukwei Clottey, Heidkamp, Janae Hamilton, and 80 other artists. 

The corresponding art book expounds with forewords by curator Klaus Biesenbach, essays by, Dr Wes Sechrest (Re:wild), and UNESCO GEM Report Director Manos Antoninis. 

The show opened at the High Line Nine Galleries in Chelsea NYC in the spring of 2025, and traveled to the Hamptons for Summer and Fall through end of year 2025 (see Hamptons exhibition) .

In collaboration with Sotheby’s, L.A., the exhibition and the accompanying art book explore the female experience: equality, agency, autonomy, religion, family, love and sexuality. A group show featuring 75 women artists at the forefront of the women’s movement in art: Georgia O’Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Alice Neel, Cecily Brown, Faith Ringgold, Marina Abramović, Jenny Holzer, Tracey Emin, Judy Chicago, Mickalene Thomas, Nan Goldin, Alexandra Rubinstein, Andrea Mary Marshall, Carolee Schneemann, Ellen von Unwerth, Ghada Amer, Joan Semmel, Leonor Fini, Annique Delphine, Carrie Mae Weems, Harley Weir, Judith Bernstein, and many others.

The exhibition opened at Sotheby’s and was on view for three months. The accompanying art book includes forewords by Erica Jong (author of bestseller Fear of Flying, recipient of the United Nations Award For Excellence In Literature) and Roxane Gay (author of New York Times best-seller Bad Feminist). Excerpts by Judy Chicago (pioneering feminist artist and Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2018”) and Kathy Acker. Original submissions by Vaginal Davis, Alice Little, Erika Lust, Naana Otoo-Oyortey, MBE, Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, Natasha Stagg, and Stoya. The book was featured in Italian Vogue, Bazaar, The Guardian, Wallpaper, and Artsy, among others.