Ifetayo A Abdus-Salam Omya Alston Heather Hart Jessica Peavy Ashley Reid Felicia Megginson

In contemporary American society there is a new movement of young artists that are reinvestigating ideas of power, race and identity while seeking a new unity that welcomes personal exploration, contradiction and the diversity of individuality. This exhibition about attitude and aesthetics brings together six artists whose work explores representations of the black woman in popular culture.

Y’all remind me of something that another BG, Poly Styrene aka Marion Elliot, once said “I know I’m artificial, but don’t put the blame on me.” Each of you transgresses the spectacle that exists for and around black women’s subjectivity by pulling apart these constructions, churning them through your own aesthetic modes, and throwing them back at the viewer. The blame is pushed away from black women’s bodies and back into the frustrated spaces of our nation: where it belongs. – Courtney J. Martin, Guest Writer

Curators: Vanessa Riding & Derrick Adams