Musician Angel Bat Dawid Performs in the Gallery
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Wednesday, April 2nd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Join Angel Bat Dawid, acclaimed Chicago performer and former “Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz,” in a celebration of Cosmo Whyte’s exhibition in the Arts Club galleries. She and musical collaborator 9magicforever1 will incorporate voice, movement and multi-instrumental performance into a newly composed, artistically responsive work in the gallery. Whyte and Bat Dawid share a conceptual connection to ancestry and history, which makes for an apt pairing in this compelling and meditative evening.
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About the exhibition
In his first solo exhibition in Chicago, Los Angeles-based and Jamaican-born artist Cosmo Whyte situates the architectural archives of his late father as the structural ground for an intervention and interrogation into the spaces and forms of diasporic protest, spectacle, and witnessing. Presented by The Arts Club of Chicago, in The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone the artist reformulates photojournalistic images onto materials ranging from drawings to hand-painted beaded curtains and steel framings of unrealized structures. In so doing, Whyte poetically asks “what makes a witness? And what does it mean to have become one?”
The Arts Club of Chicago presents Whyte’s exhibition as part of PANAFRICA ACROSS CHICAGO.
This exhibition is curated by Janine Mileaf, Executive Director and Chief Curator.
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Tags: Angel Bat Dawid, Chicago, Cosmo Whyte, Near North Side, The Arts Club of Chicago, The Mother's Tongue Pressed to the Grinding Stone
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