BLACK LIKE ME
Exhibit Dates: January 16 – April 15, 2023
Opening Reception to Meet the Artist: Wednesday February 15, 2023, 4-8 pm | RSVP eventbrite
At 1111 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20004
Featuring Artists: Wesley Clark, Julee Dickerson Thompson, Bulsby “Buzz” Duncan, Francine Haskins, Claudia Gibson-Hunter, Carolyn Goodridge, Bernie Houston, Hubert Jackson, Chris Malone, Kristine Mays, Ibou N’Diaye, and Curtis Woody.
Christine Mays
Freedom
Wire, 18" x 15" x 12"
This work was birth out of a nagging within. The imagery came to me and cried out to be brought forth. Thoughts on Harriet Tubman running through weeds on her way to freedom came to mind. Layers emerged as I began to create. My mind turned to the restrictions placed on black and brown people everyday. Where can we go without question, where we are not allowed to tread? The spaces in which one must continually look over their shoulder become more prevalent than not. And just where is this freedom? Where it is ok to exhale and relax your shoulders, allowing your bare feet a chance to walk through grass? Slavery never ended and slaves get their feet cut off if they run too far. Do you ever get a chance to stroll and meander through the grassy knoll or is life full of running on cracked concrete, stepping over broken glass and weeds that poke through cement? My longing for more is infused in the steel wire that speaks of both confinement and boundlessness. It the dichotomy between acknowledgment of what is, and hope for future.
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This work was birth out of a nagging within. The imagery came to me and cried out to be brought forth. Thoughts on Harriet Tubman running through weeds on her way to freedom came to mind. Layers emerged as I began to create. My mind turned to the restrictions placed on black and brown people everyday. Where can we go without question, where we are not allowed to tread? The spaces in which one must continually look over their shoulder become more prevalent than not. And just where is this freedom? Where it is ok to exhale and relax your shoulders, allowing your bare feet a chance to walk through grass? Slavery never ended and slaves get their feet cut off if they run too far. Do you ever get a chance to stroll and meander through the grassy knoll or is life full of running on cracked concrete, stepping over broken glass and weeds that poke through cement? My longing for more is infused in the steel wire that speaks of both confinement and boundlessness. It the dichotomy between acknowledgment of what is, and hope for future.
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Seeking Balance
Painted wire, 22" x 16" x 14"
The pressure to hold it all together, a juggling of responsibilities and emotion, dreams and reality, hope and joy.
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The pressure to hold it all together, a juggling of responsibilities and emotion, dreams and reality, hope and joy.
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