Angela Davis Fegan: Better Than I Imagined
@ NEIU Fine Art Center Gallery
5500 N St Louis Ave, Building E, Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, August 30th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Friday, September 20th
Angela Davis Fegan: “Better Than I Imagined”
“Better Than I Imagined” is a solo exhibition featuring Chicago artist Angela Davis Fegan. The works in the show, which include paintings, drawings, letterpress prints, and printed wearable garments, examine these processes as instruments of queer desire that conflate the subjectivity of the artist and their subject. Each material and object reiterating and repeating the necessity of bodily autonomy, agency and right to self determination. The subjects represented in each portrait document how these relationships each opened new means for the artist to situate herself in a world that violently dehumanizes Black subjectivity. The collective result of “Better Than I Imagined” is a panoramic view of the shared, liminal consciousness of queer female relationships, self-made community, and the lasting reveries so crucial to the Black lesbian political imagination. Moreover, the women included in the show have strong ties to Chicago and its status as a hub of Black cultural output. This embodied expanse of expression has something to offer everyone as we all seek care and protection in this increasingly precarious time.
Artist Bio
Angela Davis Fegan is a native of Chicago’s South Side. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from New York’s Parsons School of Design and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. Angela has mounted shows at Chicago Artists’ Coalition, the DePaul Art Museum, The Center for Book Arts (NY), the University of Chicago’s Arts Incubator and Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, the Hyde Park Art Center, SAIC’s Sullivan Galleries, Columbia’s Glass Curtain Gallery, SPACES (OH) and Co-Prosperity. She has held residencies at Connecticut College, the Hambidge Center (GA), Revolve (NC), Project Row Houses (TX) and Women’s Studio Workshop (NY). Her work has been selected for book covers including The Truth About Dolls by Jamila Woods, Secondhand by Maya Marshall, All Blue So Late by Laura Swearingen-Steadwell and Super Sad Black Girl by Diamond Sharp. Her lavender menace poster project has been written up by The Offing (LA Review of Books), Hyperallergic, Chicago Magazine, Go Magazine, Pop Sugar, the Chicago Reader, and Newcity.
Official Website
More events on this date
Tags: Albany Park, Angela Davis Fegan, Angela Davis Fegan: Better Than I Imagined, Better Than I Imagined, neiu art gallery
« previous event
next event »