Art Exhibition and Panel

The Art Exhibition ran from February 27th to March 21st, 2004.

Description

The exhibition examines themes that capture individual as well as societal responses to global processes.  Through different media, the memories and histories of African Americans, their enslavement, and their freedom are told by Jefferson Pinder and Stephen Marc.  These works touch on different aspects of the triangular trade that involved enslaving Africans and transporting them to the Americas to produce goods that entered the global market.  Wendell Smith's vivid abstract paintings examine an unidentified culture, displaced by history. Or is it displaced by globalization?  Robin Holder, Ian van Coller and eto s. otitigbe address race, discrimination and apartheid from different perspectives. In paintings and photographs, van Coller and Holder focus on the point of view of individuals by highlighting the issues of identity, human cost and pain from their personal experiences and knowledge of their subjects.  eto s. otitigibe, inspired by the contemporary struggle of Africans in the United States, uses the fusion of music and film to examine apartheid through the point of view of a prisoner on Robbin Island.  Modou Dieng, who grew up in a hybridized and globalized African culture in Dakar, Senegal, plays with the apple as a sign for New York City by combining it with other symbols-hearts and stripes-in mixed-media flags and cityscapes of various parts of the metropolis.