Gerald Williams/Rebecca Zorach Conversation
@ Kavi Gupta
219 N Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, November 8th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, December 2nd
Please join us for a discussion with Rebecca Zorach and Gerald Williams on the occasion of Williams’ first solo exhibition with Kavi Gupta.
Gerald Williams (b. 1941) painter and founding member of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artist), an African American artist collective, Gerald Williams was born in Chicago. He earned a Masters of Fine Arts at Howard University, served in the United States Air Force, was a Peace Corp Volunteer for several years, taught in public schools in Chicago and Washington, D.C. and served as Arts and Crafts Director for the United States Air Force for twenty years until his retirement in 2004.
Rebecca Zorach is the Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History at Northwestern University. She teaches and writes on early modern European art, contemporary activist art, and art of the 1960s and 1970s. Particular interests include print media, feminist and queer theory, theory of representation, the Black Arts Movement, and the multiple intersections of art and politics. Her books include The Passionate Triangle (2011), Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance (2005). She co-edited The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago (2017) with Abdul Alkalimat and Romi Crawford.
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