Lola Flash: Believable

Over the coming twelve months, Jenkins Johnson will periodically mount exhibitions on the third floor of Marian Goodman Gallery at 385 Broadway, New York.

   

This flexible arrangement between Marian Goodman Gallery and Jenkins Johnson Gallery, both members of the Art Dealers Association of America, embodies the spirit of co-operation fundamental to New York's contemporary art community. Jenkins Johnson and Marian Goodman will operate entirely independently of each other, and we greatly anticipate the opportunity for audiences that follow both programs to experience this creative alliance. 

 

Founded in San Francisco in 1996, Jenkins Johnson Gallery also had a space and offices  in Chelsea from 2005 to 2017 before moving to Brooklyn in 2017 with the opening of Jenkins Johnson Projects. Although not continuous, this opportunity for a presence in Manhattan over the coming months, while retaining our Brooklyn Projects space, marks an exciting new chapter in the gallery's storied history.

 

Our debut exhibition in Tribeca will be "Believable" by New York artist Lola Flash; opening 6-8pm, Saturday, November 8th on the 3rd Floor of 385 Broadway, New York, NY 10013. At 5pm, there will be an artist talk with Flash and Rhea L. Combs, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

 

A pioneering voice in photography for more than four decades, Flash's multifaceted practice has evolved through numerous series, each with a unique formal and conceptual focus. Beginning with their iconic "Cross Colour" series from the late 1980s and 1990s-which utilized inverted colors to document queer culture as part of ACT UP, in the wake of the HIV/AIDS epidemic-this exhibition traces a path through portraiture towards recent and ongoing series. Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics, Flash's work challenges preconceptions about gender and racism, and is firmly rooted in social justice advocacy for marginalized peoples.

 

Lola Flash (b. 1959, Montclair, NJ) has works in museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum; National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington D.C.; and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Work is currently on view in MoMA as part of their permanent collection. Recent exhibitions include "Queer Lens: A History of Photography," at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 2025; "Trust Me," at the Whitney, New York, 2024; and "Lola Flash: SALT, What If Women Ruled the World? Part II," a solo at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece. Flash recently created a podcast in collaboration with MoMA Magazine titled "My Friends Gave Me Their Love: Remembering New York City's AIDS Crisis Together." Flash lives and works in New York.

 

Future Jenkins Johnson Gallery exhibitions at 385 Broadway will be announced as they arise.  For more information, please email info@jenkinsjohnsongallery.com or call +1 (212) 629-0707. A full press release on the exhibition to follow.