Exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
Date 30.10.22 - 29.01.23
Curator Jessica Bell Brown, Ryan N. Dennis
Venue The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
All images Courtesy by the artists and Baltimore Museum of Art. Photo: Mitro Hood
Date 30.10.22 - 29.01.23
Curator Jessica Bell Brown, Ryan N. Dennis
Venue The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
All images Courtesy by the artists and Baltimore Museum of Art. Photo: Mitro Hood
Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr., Allison Janae Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, and Carrie Mae Weems were commissioned to make new works that reflect on their connections to the South, migration, ancestry, and land. The exhibition encompasses an extraordinary range of painting, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, and immersive installations that are both communally resonant and deeply personal.
A*ray
2022
Single-channel HD video (color, sound), 29:37 min.
Featuring: Lakia Black
Sound recording: Travis Jones, Steffani Jemison
Camera: Steffani Jemison, Sabrina Rodrigues Sound mixed and mastered by: Sean T. Davis / theHalfStyle
Courtesy the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; and Annet Gelink, Amsterdam
A*ray
2022
Single-channel HD video (color, sound), 29:37 min.
Featuring: Lakia Black
Sound recording: Travis Jones, Steffani Jemison
Camera: Steffani Jemison, Sabrina Rodrigues Sound mixed and mastered by: Sean T. Davis / theHalfStyle
Courtesy the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; and Annet Gelink, Amsterdam
A Song for Travelers
2022
Charcoal, conté crayon, and pastel on paper mounted on aluminum 84 x 240 in.
Courtesy the artist and Koplin Del Rio Gallery
Leave! Leave Now!
2022
Single-channel digital video (color, sound) installation with mixed media, 25 min.
Dimensions variable Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
This Water Runs Deep
2022
Mixed media and collage on canvas with sound, 2:18 min. 96 x 180 in.
Courtesy the artist and Kravets Wehby Gallery
Way Over There Inside Me (A Festival of Inches) 2022
Painted steel, glass, painted aluminum, dry-erase marker
2 Connectors: 203 x 33 x 93 in. each
4 Trapezoids: 83 x 40 x 78 in. each
2 units comprised of 1 Connector + 2 Trapezoids: 70 x 364 x 93 in. each, Overall circumference of each unit, 364 in.
Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery
500
2022
Mixed media on panel
Sixty panels, each 22 x 28 in.
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Way Over There Inside Me (A Festival of Inches) 2022
Painted steel, glass, painted aluminum, dry-erase marker
2 Connectors: 203 x 33 x 93 in. each
4 Trapezoids: 83 x 40 x 78 in. each
2 units comprised of 1 Connector + 2 Trapezoids: 70 x 364 x 93 in. each, Overall circumference of each unit, 364 in.
Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery
A House Called Florida at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Untitled (Slow Drag, Barely Moving, Imperceptible) 2022
Hot rolled steel, red oak, and inherited glass objects 12 x 96 x 72 in., (overall footprint)
A House Called Florida
2022
Three-channel film installation (color, sound), 34:46 min.
Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen
from the series "Let My Testimony Sit Next To Yours" 2022
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta paper
Permanent Change of Station
2022
Collage on wood panel and Graphite, gouache, collage on paper Pop-up Construction:73 1/8 x 195 3/4 x 120 1/4 in.
Collage: 82 x 211 1/4 in.
How I Hate to Leave
from the series "An Ode To (You)'all" 2022
Jacquard tapestry, Poly-fil, rhinestones
Fairfield
from the series "Let My Testimony Sit Next To Yours" 2022
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta paper 40 x 50 in.
Augusta
from the series "Let My Testimony Sit Next To Yours" 2022
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta paper
Pops
from the series "Let My Testimony Sit Next To Yours" 2022
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta paper
Cook
from the series "Let My Testimony Sit Next To Yours" 1900, printed 2022
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta paper
