COFFY GALERIE [Knowledge Archive - Summer 2026]
Coffy Galerie operates at the intersection of image, desire, and cultural systems.
Its expertise is not singular. It is cumulative.
Knowledge is treated as material. Accumulation is treated as a structure.
Each domain below is not a category, but a field of practice.
Each field informs how images are made, read, circulated, and remembered.
The research and readings below are pre-field-of-practice and will be integrated into the full knowledge archive at the end of the summer.
CURRENT STUDY AND RESEARCH — SUMMER 2026
This is a staging area, not part of the permanent collection. It tracks active intention and movement. Books are graduated into their proper field once read and metabolized into the practice.
READINGS (CoffyGalerie and Coffyzine research)
Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics — Paul C. Taylor
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste — Pierre Bourdieu
Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic — Larry Neal
Towards an Aesthetic of Reception - Hans Robert Jauss
Phenomenology of Perception — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthetics and the Critique of Form — Rizvana Bradley
The Theory of the Leisure Class — Thorstein Veblen
The Attention Merchants — Tim Wu
Art Worlds — Howard S. Becker
The Cultural Politics of Emotion — Sara Ahmed
Seven Days in the Art World — Sarah Thornton
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space — Brian O'Doherty
**Unconscious Branding: How Neuroscience Can Empower and Inspire Marketing — Douglas Van Praet
CLASSES (Online) AND RESEARCH
ICP — Considering Color: Discovering the History and Meaning in Colors and Photography
Fulbright Scholar — application under consideration
Penn State University Online — Creativity, Innovation, and Transformation
Yale University Online — Age of Cathedrals
Berklee Online — Creativity and Entrepreneurship (musicians' perspective on collaborative processes)
University of Amsterdam Online - Introduction to Communication Science
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona — Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction
ALTERNATIVES IF TIME PERMITS (COUTUREBOY project — potential funding source)
The Museum of Modern Art — Fashion Design: Expressions and Community
University of the Arts London — Fashion Values: Society; Fashion Values: Economy; Fashion Values: Nature
Copenhagen Business School — Sustainable Fashion
PROJECTS
CoffyGalerie.com — three summer artist collaborations
Coffyzine — create a sample copy
COUTUREBOY.com — potential funding source
**Note that Unconscious Branding already appears in my ADVERTISING, PERSUASION, AND DESIRE field of practice. This is a re-read.
A strike-through indicates the class or research has been completed. Once all summer 2026 readings and research are completed, they will be integrated into the Knowledge Archive field of practice.