Photo: Adam Reich Installation view of Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon, The Kitchen, New York, January 18, 2022–March 6, 2022. Eagle NYCs massive outdoor patio and smoking area are one of the bars unique features. Installation view of Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon, The Kitchen, New York, January 18, 2022–March 6, 2022. The Eagle is New York Citys premier Leather and cruising bar.
Everyone is encouraged to experience the exhibition through touch and sound as a changing audio component elevates the installation. The bar offered a social safe space for marginalized individuals of the multiracial queer community in San Francisco.Īt the installation, visitors can step into this shiny pink bar decorated with glittering books, bar stools, and a glowing “Eagle Creek” neon sign. The original saloon was first opened and operated from 1990–1993 by the artist’s father, Rodney Barnette, founder of the Compton Black Panther Party chapter. Installation view of Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon, The Kitchen, New York, January 18, 2022–March 6, 2022. Produced in collaboration with the Studio Museum in Harlem, the installation makes way for the East Coast’s first “institutional presentation” of this historical space. NYC’s newest saloon comes just in time for Black History Month and soon after the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.Ĭelebrate Queer Black history at The Kitchen in Chelsea from now through March 6th with Sadie Barnette’s reimagination of Eagle Creek Saloon-San Francisco’s first Black-owned gay bar.