As a microcosm of our society, the art world maintains a system of marginalization based on racial and cultural difference. Artists identified as “other” function in silos, just as they do in society.
This exhibition presents 11 artists who examine these silos, otherness, and the cultural and social ramifications of marginalization based on one’s identity, whether self-defined or inscribed. Bearing witness, as these artists do, not only identifies the pressing issues of our time but also challenges the norm of marginalization, absence, and exclusion.
Through the work of Yaw Agyeman, Wesley Clark, Nathaniel Donnett, Shané K. Gooding, Esau McGhee, Johana Moscoso, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Ellington Robinson, Stacy-Lynn Waddell, Rhonda Wheatley, and Wilmer Wilson IV, Silos gives voice to the silence(d).
Curated by Jeffreen M. Hayes, PhD
Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 9:00am to 5:00pm
Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Students, Department of Exhibitions, Performance and Student Spaces (DEPS)
Free
Mark Porter