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By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton

Saya Woolfalk (Japan, 1979) is a New York-based artist created a transhuman world of Empathics.

When we entered the Tube Factory gallery that contains Saya Woolfalk's installation "Empathic Cloud Divination," we thought we'd transported into the Black Panther's Kingdom of Wakanda, but everyone was a blue female Emphatic! Saya Woolfalk is a mixed-race artist (Asian, Black, white) best known for her Afrofuturism style that explores science, spirituality, race, and sex. Her installation opened this week in Indianapolis, and that makes Saya Woolfalk our artist of the week.

Gregory Disney-Britton inside Saya Woolfalk's installation at the Tube Factory on Friday night.

NEWS OF 2008-2019 from across the USA, and around the world:

• Buddhist Art of Week: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room in Indianapolis [MoreNews]
• Christian Art of Week: "Black Girl’s Window” (1969) by Betye Saar at MOMA [More News]
• Hindu Art of Week: Chitra Ganesh's "Depth of Her Abyss" at Delhi Art Week [More News]
• Islamic Art of Week: Michael Rakowitz Wins Nasher Prize for Sculpture [More News]
• Jewish Art of Week: Claude Riedel’s Ner Tamids hang in120 synagogues [More News]

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Visitors at Friday night's opening at the Tube Factory

On display at Big Car's Tube Factory in Indianapolis: Saya Woolfalk, “Encyclopedia of Cloud Divination,” Plate 2, 30”x40”, 2018

Available at Lower East Side Printshop, NYC: Encyclopedia of Cloud Divination (Plate 2), 2019Archival inkjet, screenprint, silver leaf, and collage44 × 34 in111.8 × 86.4 cm edition of 14

Available at ArtStar, NYC: Saya Woolfalk's (b. 1979) "The LighthouseHahnemühle"; 100% cotton rag paper with archival Epson inkjet pigments. This is part of a limited edition set.20 × 24 in Edition 50/50

On display at Cincinnati Contemporary Art Museum: Saya Woolfalk, An Empathic Preparing to Paint Images from the Book Empathetic Plant Alchemy (Jillian), 2011.