Karen Jenkins-Johnson is an American art dealer; owner and director of Jenkins Johnson Gallery , a contemporary art gallery with locations in San Francisco and Brooklyn. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Jenkins-Johnson moved to the Bay Area to get her MBA at University of California, Berkeley, studying entrepreneurship. [5] [6]
In 1996, Karen Jenkins-Johnson opened Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco. [5] [6] In 2005, the gallery opened a second space in Chelsea, NYC. The Chelsea space operated until 2014. [5] In 2017, Jenkins Johnson Gallery opened a community oriented project space emphasizing curators and artists of color. - Jenkins Johnson Projects - in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. [5] [6] [1] [8]
Jenkins-Johnson was a Gala Honoree of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) Afropolitan Ball - 2018. [9]
Laura Parnes is contemporary American artist who creates non-linear narratives that engage strategies of film and video art and blur the lines between storytelling conventions and experimentation. Her work is often episodic, references pop culture, female stereotypes, history and the anxiety of influence. She was the co-director of Momenta Art with Eric Heist and helped relaunch the not-for-profit exhibition space in New York City; at first as a nomadic space and then as a permanent space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She continued to her involvement as a Board Chair until 2011. Parnes received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She currently teaches in MFA departments at MICA, Parsons, and SVA.
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