Space One Eleven is a visual arts organization founded in Birmingham, Alabama in 1986. Space One Eleven’s mission is to provide professional opportunities for artists, create a forum for public understanding of contemporary art, and offer arts education to area youth. Foregrounding the values of social justice and human rights, it supports artists to take creative risks and address current issues through projects executed in all media. As an artist-run alternative to commercial galleries and traditional museum settings, Space One Eleven encourages artists at all career levels to exercise their creative freedom and create work that takes risks.
Space One Eleven Arts Center
Kevin Cole, Conversation with the Proud Boys, 2022. Mixed media, 10 x 20 x 10 inches.
Talia Greene, Forest Colonies, 2025. Wallpaper and cut paper, 168 x 191 inches.
Jennifer McCohnell, Sit a Spell, 2025. Fabric, wood, and wire, 38 x 34 x40 inches.
1964
Philip Johnson commissioned Warhol to make a large-scale work for the exterior for his pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, along with other artists. Warhol’s provocative response, a multiple portrait of ‘Most Wanted Men’ was installed a few days before the opening but was deemed too inflammatory and contrary to the upbeat image of the World’s Fair and the work was taken down.