Join us for the opening reception of Mapping Resistance: The Legacy of Black Liberation (1925-1975) at Kavi Gupta Washington Blvd. Fl.1 featuring director-led tours and refreshments to celebrate the opening of our Spring exhibitions.
Spanning five decades featuring works by Gerald Williams, Wadsworth Jarrell, Sherman Beck, Jeff Donaldson, Omar Lama, and photographic works from the Kavi Gupta archive by James P. Ball, James Van Der Zee, and Carl Van Vechten, this exhibition traces a lineage of artists whose practices assert the power of image-making as both cultural archive and radical form. Moving across photography, painting, and print, the presentation reveals an intergenerational continuum of aesthetic innovation and social consciousness, each work a testament to the artists’ role in shaping and preserving the visual language of Black life and furthering Black liberation.
