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Gallery

April 26 – May 25, 2019

Conjuring Wholeness in the Wake of Rupture

De Buck Gallery, New York

Conjuring Wholeness in the Wake of Rupture. Featuring Tajh Rust, Marielle Plaisir, Stephen Towns, Dominic Chambers, Amani Lewis, Sharif Bey, Osi Audu, Devan Shimoyama and Rashaad Newsome, Conjuring Wholeness in the Wake of Rupture explores the countless ways the physical and spiritual body creates, shifts, and endures in the world.

The artists in this show use cultural memory, the body, the Black imagination, and cosmology as radical tools of self-identification, protection, and care. The works on view center new narratives and unfamiliar histories, and reveal hidden stories that eschew Western, heteronormative authority and disruption. The artists create complex and visceral environments to confront stereotypes and rigid beliefs systems. They reject alienation and separation, and embrace the universality of Blackness through the inventive use of materials, familiar forms, mythical figures, and vibrant colors.

Conjuring Wholeness in the Wake of Rupture presents an exciting roster of contemporary artists including Amani Lewis, whose fresh work challenges societal perceptions of Baltimore through a layered digital process; Sharif Bey, whose ceramic sculptures explore the cultural significance of ornamentation; Marielle Plaisir, whose imaginative paintings critique prejudice though her reconstructed worlds; Dominic Chambers, whose large scale paintings reference literary narratives cited in literature and African-American history; Osi Audu, whose self-portraits explore the dualism of the mind/body relation; Rashaad Newsome, whose stunning collages contemplate and question distorted notions of power; Tajh Rust, whose environmental portraits explore the relationships between black identity and space; Stephen Towns, whose lush depictions of the African Diaspora speak to constructs of race and its effects on society; and Devan Shimoyama, whose work showcases the relationship between celebration and silence in queer culture and sexuality through depictions of the black queer male body.

EXHIBITION SLIDESHOW

All is Vanity

Stephen Towns, All is Vanity, 2016, 36 x 36 inches, Acrylic, oil, metal leaf on canvas

 

Amani Lewis

 

Amani Lewis and Stephen

 

Stephen Towns

 

Stephen Towns, Kilolo Luckett, Rashaad Newsome, Osi Audu, Amani Lewis, Sharif Bey, and Dominic Chambers

 

Rashaad Newsome and Sharif Bey

 

Rashaad Newsome and Dominic Chambers

 

Osi Audu, Rashaad Newsome, and Sharif Bey

 

Osi Audu and Dominic Chambers

 

Osi Audu and Chris Fleischner

 

Kilolo Luckett and Sharif Bey

 

Amani Lewis and Kilolo Luckett

 

Amani Lewis, Dzheep, and Kilolo Lucket

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