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April 21 - June 9, 2006
Robert Banks (Cleveland, OH), April Banks, Ogechi Chieke (New York, NY), Ghamsa Jenny Coker, Dad 759, MR Daniel, Colette Gaiter (Newark, DE), Jabari Hall-Smith (Los Angeles, CA), Olalekan Jeyifous (Brooklyn, NY), Seitu Jones (St. Paul, MN), Charles Nelson Jr., Carl Pope Jr. , Damon Reaves (Philadelphia, PA), Kevin Sipp, Charmaine Spencer, RA Washington (Cleveland, OH), Amanda Williams (Oakland, CA)
Carl Pope Jr. (2005)
The exhibition explores the idea of Afrofuturism, the subculture that deals with the interplay between time, technology, race, and culture in the US. Seventeen artists look to historical and futuristic viewpoints to explore the impact of technology on the spiritual, physical, and social lives of black people.
In collaboration with the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN,
Curated by Ernest Arthur Byrant III and Suzanne Roberts.
Robert Banks
Robert C. Banks, Jr. is an American cinematographer and film artist. Banks attended the Cleveland School of the Arts, and has taught film at Cuyahoga Community College, the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Cleveland State University. His best known work is the 1992 film, "X: The Baby Cinema", a 16mm... go to artist page
April Banks
April Banks has exhibited at Guerilla Gallery, Berkeley, CA and Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. She received her MS in Environmental Science from Art Center College of Design in 1999 and her BA from Hampton University in 1996. Banks is a conceptual artist. Her image-based and performance installations explore... go to artist page
Ogechi Chieke
Ogechi was awarded the Best Experimental Film at Through Her Eyes Film Festival, New York in 2006. She received her MFA in Computer Art from The School of Visual Arts in 2006 and her BA in Electronic Studio Art from Howard University in 2003. She was awarded the... go to artist page
Ghamsa Jenny Coker
Dad 759
MR Daniel
Colette Gaiter
Colette Gaiter works with computers and interactive multi-media to create photographs that capture societal and cultural events paired with personal imagery. The artists bold and expressive imagery evokes a sense of nostalgia and emotion. Gaiter has a BFA in graphic design from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA and an MA from... go to artist page
Jabari Hall-Smith
Jabari has exhibited at The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN, SPACES gallery, Cleveland, OH, and various other venues throughout the United States. He received a BFA from Howard University in 2001 and did graduate studies in experimental animation and integrated media at the California Institute of the Arts from 2002 -... go to artist page
Olalekan Jeyifous
Olalekan has exhibited at The Kitchen, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, SPACES Gallery, The Boiler Room, the Rotterdam Architectural Biennale, The Drawing Center, and la BANK, Paris, France. He received a BArch from Cornell University in 2000. He was awarded a... go to artist page
Seitu Jones
Seitu Jones was born in Minneapolis in 1951. Working on his own or in collaboration, Jones has created over 30 large-scale public art works. He's been awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, a Bush Artist Fellowship, a Bush Leadership Fellowship, and a National Endowment... go to artist page
Charles Nelson Jr.
Nelson was equally adept at painting, drawing and video, and he put them all to work as a conceptual artist. Over the last few years, the Morehouse College professor had garnered accolades for richly layered videos that drew from literature, film, popular culture, music and art history. go to artist page
Carl Pope Jr.
Damon Reaves
Damon has exhibited at The Audrey Fienberg Gallery and the Valley Art Center. He received his MFA from The University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and his BFA from Miami University, Ohio in 2001. In 2005 he was awarded the Emerging Artist Award by Sankofa Fine Arts Organization, and... go to artist page
Kevin Sipp
Kevin has shown at the Tubman African American Museum and the Kubatana Gallery. go to artist page
Charmaine Spencer
Using salvaged materials Charmaine Spencer creates bold accumulative works that reinvent concepts of value.While attending the Cleveland Institute of Art Spencer was recipient of the William McVey Award and was one of two students selected to finish posthumously, the last sculpture of David E. Davis, the founder of the Sculpture... go to artist page
RA Washington
RA Washington is a polymath living on Cleveland's West Side. Washington's work spans two decades and several genres, most recently the novels, CITI, FOUR INTERIORS (Outlandish Press 2017, 2018); a collection of poems, BLACK EUNUCH (Outlandish Press 2018) and two memoirs, BODY, and BALDWIN NOTES (Outlandish Press 2018, 2019). He... go to artist page
Amanda Williams
Amanda was born in 1974 in Evanston, IL. She has had solo exhibitions at 3 Peas Art Lounge, Levy Art and Architecture, Guerilla Cafe and Gallery, and Angel Orensanz Foundation. She studied at University of California, Berkeley and received her BA from Cornell University in 1997. go to artist page
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