FORMING | Torkwase Dyson and Christina Sharpe in Dialogue
@ GRAY
2044 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
Opening Saturday, November 23rd, from 2PM - 4PM
On the occasion of the exhibition, Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory, GRAY is pleased to present a gallery conversation with critically acclaimed writer and professor Christina Sharpe and internationally celebrated artist Torkwase Dyson. Sharpe joins Dyson to discuss the artist’s newest work, the liminal space between geography, perception, and memory, and how diasporic movement prompts questions of beauty, augmentation, and forming without the promise of stability. Their dialogue will take place at GRAY’s Chicago gallery (2044 W Carroll Ave) on Saturday, November 23, 2024, at 2 PM CT. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required.
Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory is on view at GRAY Chicago (2044 W Carroll Ave) from November 8, 2024 through January 25, 2025.
ABOUT TORKWASE DYSON
American interdisciplinary artist Torkwase Dyson (b. 1973 Chicago) combines expressive mark-making and geometric abstraction to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. Working across the disciplines of painting, sculpture and architecture, Dyson deconstructs, distills, and interrogates the built environment, exploring how individuals, particularly black and brown people, negotiate, negate, and transform systems and spatial order. Throughout her work and research, Dyson confronts issues of environmental liberation and envisions a path toward a more equitable future.
ABOUT CHRISTINA SHARPE
Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. Sharpe is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010), In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016), and Ordinary Notes (2023)—winner of the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize in Nonfiction and the Hodler Prize, and finalist for The National Book Award in Nonfiction, The National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction, the LA Times Current Interest Book Award, and the James Tait Black Prize in Biography (UK). In April 2024, she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize in Nonfiction and was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In May she received the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize for the Sciences and Humanities. Sharpe is currently working on two What Could a Vessel Be? (FSG/Knopf, Canada 2026) and Black. Still. Life. (Duke 2027).
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