Artist Adrienne Elise Tarver Explores Her Identity in New Chelsea Gallery Show

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 21, 2024

Adrienne Elise Tarver is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who's currently showing new work at Dinner Gallery in Chelsea. In the show, called Where the Waters Go, Tarver examines her own identity as a black woman through painting, using a character she invented named Vera Otis as inspiration, as well as old Ebony magazines. Tarver discusses her work, which is on view now through June 29.

This segment is guest-hosted by Kousha Navidar

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