Mapping Resistance: The Legacy of Black Liberation (1925-1975) : KAVI GUPTA | WASHINGTON BLVD. FL. 1

Spanning five decades featuring works by Gerald Williams, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jae Jarrell, Sherman Beck, Jeff Donaldson, Omar Lama, Ernie Barnes, photographic works from the Kavi Gupta | Archives by James P. Ball, James Van Der Zee, and Carl Van Vechten, print material by Emory Douglas along with other historic ephemera 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.