Independent 20th Century 2026

Black SoHo, presented jointly by Salon 94 and RYAN LEE Gallery, brings together landmark works by Emma Amos, Ed Clark, Norman Lewis, Camille Billops, David Hammons, Vivian Browne, and others; artists whose practices contributed to the cultural life of downtown New York from the 1960s through the mid-1980s. Many of these artists were central figures in artist-run gallery spaces, including Just Above Midtown (JAM), the Brata Gallery, and the Hatch-Billops loft—Camille and her husband's namesake space and archive—which gave Black artists a platform outside an otherwise narrow and exclusionary art world.The booth unites rare and museum-quality paintings, sculpture, and works on paper including Amos's woven canvases, Clark's push-broom abstractions, Lewis's gestural oils, Billops's glazed earthenware, and Hammons's early body prints. Complementing the artwork, our digital assets will also feature rare ephemera from the renowned Artist and Influence journal, including photographs, that bring this extraordinary moment in New York's cultural history vividly to life as we work to bring sustained attention to this important moment in 20th-century art history.