Inward with curator Jasmine Wilson
In partnership with Stay Home Gallery, I present Inward, a virtual exhibition curated by Jasmine Wilson, one of the 2021 curatorial fellows. Jasmine is an amazing young emerging curator who has interned at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at ZuCot Gallery in Atlanta GA. Jasmine talks about her time in the curatorial fellowship, how she’s working to develop her artistic voice, and the process of creating this exhibition. Consider this the beginning of the mini-artist talk for the virtual exhibition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be dropping mini-episodes featuring all the artists in the show talking about their inspiration and artistic process. Big thanks to Kaylan Buteyn and Pam Marlene Taylor for including Studio Noize as a partner. Check out the show at https://www.stayhomegallery.com/exhibitions/inward and listen to the episodes to hear more.
“I’m Black” by Traci Mims
As an exhibition inspired by our collective isolation and intimate encounters with ourselves, Inward centers the work of artists who confront their beauty, identity, and personal struggles through portraiture. This gesture to explore the inner Self, particularly during the global pandemic, is personal in nature and inspired me to call upon this group of artists to provide a visual opening into their inner worlds. The artworks included in this exhibition feature artists’ battles with anxiety and illness, as well as their transcendence of chaos and feelings of inner peace while surrounded by family and loved ones. By centering their narratives, it is my goal to inspire critical discourse surrounding the lessons and realizations that surface as a result of our individual reckoning with the need to transform amid moments of uncertainty and change.
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