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Founded in 1978, the October Gallery is an art gallery dedicated to the appreciation of art from all cultures around the world. The Gallery exhibits and promotes art of the transvangarde - or trans-cultural avant-garde - that is to say, the work of artists who, whilst working at the forefront of their own respective cultures, assimilate into their work elements from other cultures as well. During the past twenty-one years, the Gallery has shown the work of such transvangarde artists as: Gerald Wilde, El Anatsui, William S. Burroughs, Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede, Kenji Yoshida, Aubrey Williams, Ablade Glover and Sokari Douglas Camp amongst many others. As well as exhibitions by individual artists, the Gallery also mounts group exhibitions that concentrate on the art produced in one particular area or culturally continuous region. Amongst these regional exhibitions have been shows devoted to the art and culture of : Tibet (1991), Trinidad & Tobago (1992), Mongolia (1993), the Horn of Africa (1994) Haiti (1995) South Africa (1996) the Yoruba Diasporas (1997) Oceania (1998) and Peru (1999). Future exhibitions will comprise a series of shows highlighting the contemporary art coming from shamanistic societies around the world.
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African: Algerian
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African: Ghanaian
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African: South African
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Asian: Japanese
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Oceania
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