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This project highlights how artists are left out to make more time, care, and space for artists who fit the ‘white European male’ archetype. By highlighting these artists, we can show a more accurate depiction of art history and a deeper appreciation. This collection consists of a selected group of works that reveal a cross section of this project.
The surfaces of their works are altered to metaphorically show the erasure of them and these artists’ work. Using waxed bookbinding string and a “hand-me-down” frame, I wanted to highlight conversations and situations related to censorship, erasure, and the sexism, genderism, racism, homophobic and abusive experiences that impacted their artwork. There are also stories of hope and encouragement that also reveal personal philosophies that are usually left out of artist statements and textbooks. The content revealed in this collection of works exposes the cracks we don’t see when we tell the edited, curated stories of artists and notable figures. Each of these stories cite the sources of these stories on the back of each work. The bookbinding string is the same string used to assemble textbooks that teach people who the “great” artists were. The “hand-me-down” frame symbolizes how these artists are left out to make more time, care, and space for the “usual suspects”.
All sales go to donating to organizations that further the advancement of groups of people who are represented in the work.
Exhibitions
2023
COMM[UNITY] II. Playground Detroit. Detroit, Michigan. 2 Dec. – 20 Jan.
Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition. Scarab Club. Detroit, Michigan. March 22-May 6
2022
Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast Club. Robert and Mary Ann Bury Community Gallery, Detroit Historical Museum. 21 Jul. – 9 Oct.
You Belong: An Exhibition on Belonging. Chroma. Detroit, Michigan. 11 Jun. – 23 Jul.
Stories to Tell. Solo Exhibition. 1923 Cafe. Hamtramck, Michigan. December 1, 2021-January 15, 2022
2021
108th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition. The Scarab Club. Detroit, Michigan. November 17-December 31.
Art Mile – Hatch Art. Detroit, Michigan. June 14-July 11.
Making Sense of What We Have. Solo Exhibition. Morey Family Gallery at the Art Reach of Mid-Michigan. Mount Pleasant, Michigan. (Original date: April 1-30, 2020)
Hatchback 15. Hatch Art Gallery Hamtramck, Michigan. April 3-April 24.
2020
PERSIST and Reimagine. Women’s Work Art Gallery. Online. Aug. 31 – Oct. 31
2019
Curator’s Choice. Gallery at the Center for Detroit Arts and Culture. Detroit, Michigan. Nov. 21 – Dec. 16
Publications
2022
Has Magazine. Humanities, Arts and Society. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO-MOST). Paris, France. Issue 4, January 2022.
Private Collection
2021
Anonymous: Augusta Savage’s Story (1) – Sale donated to the NAACP