Noel W Anderson: Black Excellence, The University Art Museum, Albany, NY. 

Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery is pleased to announce Noel W Anderson: Black Excellence, the artist’s largest solo museum exhibition to date, features tapestries, video, and works on paper exploring themes of Black success, labor, and performance, at the The University Art Museum, Albany, NY. On view from August 2025 to April 2026.

The use of cotton and its attendant vocabulary once woven is an intricate exchange with American history. Loose threads and the natural warp of the material represent a glitch that invites viewers to revisit their memories and notions. The Jacquard weave recalls analog media while accompanying sound and video further develop dialogue with how technological developments have changed our seeing.

Expanding on ideas from Anderson and Bennett’s recent work for the 15th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (2024), curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, this new video features appropriated and manipulated cinema and archival footage that includes audio of conductor Dean Dixon speaking on music theory, music of Duke Ellington, singer and actor Paul Robeson in his film portrayal of Emperor Jones, and news footage of OJ Simpson’s 1994 car chase, among other images. With the moving image, Anderson continues his strategy of appropriation seen in his tapestries and introduces a sonic dimension. For Anderson, “Sound breaks the surface of the image” in a way analogous to his physical disruptions of his tapestries’ surfaces.