Stella Jones Gallery

- THE Place for Fine Black Art-

EST 1996

Stella Jones Gallery

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Celebrating Black Art 365 Days a Year

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Stella Jones Gallery

For twenty five years, Stella Jones Gallery has played a pivotal role in highlighting the historical relevance of Black Art.  Stella Jones, a black female owner, considers the gallery a “unicorn in the art gallery market,” showcasing local artists of color alongside masters in a downtown venue.

The gallery has remained committed from the beginning, to educating collectors, museums and the community on the political, social and economic impact of Black Artists and their art work. The gallery has become an important vehicle by which the black perspective is continuously presented.

Stella Jones News

The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection was started about a decade ago for the expressed purpose of lending work by African American artists to museums and galleries in support of an effort to expand the American Art canon. Their recent acquisition by Mapo Kinnord was originally commissioned by Stella Jones Gallery in 2016 for our 20 year anniversary exhibition, “INspired: 20 Years of African American Art.”

Richard Dempsey and Ron Bechet’s work will travel to The Art in Embassies exhibition for the Residence of Ambassador David and Mrs. Davis in Doha, Qatar. They are expected to be on display through 2025.

We have loaned Loïs Mailou Jones’ Mob Victim (Meditation) for the Southern/Modern traveling exhibition. It will be traveling through 2025, and we are thrilled that so many people will have an opportunity to view this important work along with many others. The schedule is as follows.

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia (Athens), June 17 – December 10, 2023

Frist Art Museum (Nashville, TN), January 25 – April 21, 2024

Dixon Gallery and Gardens (Memphis, TN), July 13 – September 29, 2024

The Mint Museum Uptown (Charlotte, NC), October 26, 2024 – February 2, 2025

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Meet

Our Artists

Elizabeth Catlett

1915 - 2012

Tayo Adenaike
Tayo Adenaike

b. 1954

Herbert Gentry

1919 - 2003

Our

Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

A Little Bitter with Your Sweet

Start Date: October 5, 2024, 4pm – 7pm
End Date: December 27, 2024

Past Exhibitions

Boris Anje & John Lister III “Black is Beautiful”

Opening: Saturday, August 3, 2024
End Date: August 3 – September 27, 2024

Past Exhibitions

Patrick Waldemar

Start Date: July 1, 2023
End Date: September 28, 2023

Our Artwork

Exhibition

Past Exhibitions

With this exhibition STELLA JONES GALLERY highlights over 50 Black Artists who pay tribute to the significant contributions of Black women of the 19th and 20th Centuries. This exhibition features a rich cross-section of artists whose narratives and varying technique bring to life two centuries of Black women’s stories for a contemporary audience. While there is no universal approach to the ongoing conversation of Black culture and identity, many of these artists rely heavily on motifs and themes specific to African Americans.

Artists include legacy, emerging, mid-level and established artists. CHARLY PALMER offers drawings of heroines created for his current book, “The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families.” CHRIS MALONE uses clay, beads and other media to create a sculpture inspired by dancers Pearl Primus, Misty Copeland and Michaela DePrince. AYO SCOTT brings the story of the “Me Too” movement to life with a portrait of its founder, Tarana Burke. CARL JOE WILLIAMS introduces us to women who made a difference in his personal life with a tryptic of his mother, aunt and grandmother. FRANK FRAZIER’s latest work from his Civil Rights Shoe Polish Series is an Afrocentric depiction of protests for social justice.

Among the legacy artists whose work continues to set the bar and to influence those who follow, ELIZABETH CATLETT’s Mother and Son lithograph, SAMELLA LEWIS’ original sketches and GWEN KNIGHT’s serigraph, The Girl, offer differing views of what it means to be a woman and Black in America.

CEY ADAMS
KEVIN COLE 
SARA HOLLIS
WOSENE W KOSROF
GEORGETTE BAKER
GENEVIEVE DEMARCO
CANDACE HUNTER
HUGHIE LEE-SMITH
LAVETTE BALLARD
JAMES DENMARK
WADSWORTH JARRELL
NORMAN LEQOC
RICHMOND BARTHÉ
NAJEE DORSEY
BARI JENKS
ROY LEWIS
RON BECHET
MALAIKA FAVORITE
CHARLY JOHNSON
SAMELLA LEWIS
BOTTLETREE
FRANK FRAZIER
LOUISE MOUTON JOHNSON
JOHN LISTER
AUSTEN BRANTLEY
KYLEN GUILBEAUX
SHELEEN JONES
JOSEPH LOFTON
WANDA BRYANT
HERREAST HARRISON
EPAUL JULIEN
JERRY LYNN
ELIZABETH CATLETT
CHERICE HARRISON-NELSON
MAPO KINNORD
CHRIS MALONE
CEAUX
RANDELL HENRY
GWEN KNIGHT
BEVERLY MCCUTCHEON

JAY MCKAY
CHARLY PALMER
STEVE PRINCE
PATRICK WALDEMAR
VICTORIOUS MCLEOD
MARTIN PAYTON
ELLAMARIE RAY
CARL JOE WILLIAMS
CHRIS MCNAIRD
AYO SCOTT
DENNIS PAUL WILLIAMS
ZSUDAYKA NZINGA
CELY PEDESCLEAUX
KEVIN SCOTT
ALFREDO OTT
ANTOINE PRINCE
GAILENE ST AMAND

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