Independent Recommends: Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University’s Revisiting 5+1, which re-examines a critical moment at the junction of abstract art, racial and gender politics, and student activism at the university. Revisiting 5+1 is a reflection on the historic 1969 exhibition of abstract art 5+1, presenting works by the original artists, alongside a new selection of major works by Black women working in abstraction, and a fascinating archival view into the culture of Stony Brook in the late 1960s. The show features work by the six artists in the 1969 exhibition (curated by and including artist Frank Bowling) each of whom created vivid experimental abstract paintings and sculptures. Alongside Bowling, the show presents major work by Melvin Edwards, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, and Al Loving—whose recent #Independent20c presentation with @GarthGreenanGallery was named a fair highlight by the @NYTimes In collaboration with Distinguished Professor of Art Howardena Pindell (whose Video Drawings were exhibited at Independent 2017 for the first time in more than 40 years), Revisiting 5+1 adds a related yet distinct group of six Black women artists, who were also trailblazers in abstraction. Alongside Pindell, the exhibition features works by Vivian Browne, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Betye Saar, Alma Thomas, and Mildred Thompson, including a never before shown 1971 film by Saar. Reel: #repost @ZuccaireGallery #IndependentNewYork