resonance
@ Anthony Gallery
1360 West Lake Street Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, April 23rd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 24th
Anthony Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of resonance, a group exhibition curated by artist, cultural architect, and community steward Lauren Halsey. Please join us for the opening reception on Wednesday, April 23rd from 5-8pm.
resonance brings together works from thirty artists, an ensemble whose dynamic practices and eclectic strategies of representation, storytelling, and thematic exploration create a generative bridge for dialogue, respite, and rumination. The works span a variety of mediums (including installation, painting, photography, mixed media, and sculpture) and give attention to a range of topics and subject matter. But a central theme that they share is the figuration of people, plants, and animals—symbols of life that reflect our interconnectedness and the intricate relationships we share with the world around us.
The exhibition is the brainchild of Lauren Halsey—the artist, cultural architect, and community steward whose large-scale foil collages and hand-carved gypsum works draw on the histories, vernacular poetics, and everyday contexts and forms of South Central Los Angeles, and reflect her ongoing engagement with Afro-diasporic mythologies, Funk music and aesthetics, and the interplay between personal history, collective memory, and broader societal narratives.
For Halsey, resonance is conceived less as a group showcase or articulation of a shared community-centered mission/standpoint. “It’s more in the spirit of a kiccbacc,” she maintains, that is to say an opportunity for fellowship, pleasure, rekindling old connections and cultivating new ones. “I invited kinfolk to show up and be a part of this,” Halsey explains. “These people are not all like-minded. And not all of their work is community focused. But I admire all of them. And we all jam.” She elaborates, “This exhibition (and a lot of my practice in general) is focused on that: generating community-centric moments, not merely community-centric work.”
Diana Yesenia Alvarado
Michael Alvarez
Mario Ayala
Sadie Barnette
Kevin Beasley
Aya Brown
Jordan Casteel
Barrington Darius
Delfin Finley
Theaster Gates
Sayre Gomez
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.
Chase Hall
Russell C. Hamilton
Lauren Halsey
Hugh Hayden
Shaniqwa Jarvis
Tony Lewis
Eric N. Mack
Renell Medrano
Jasmine Monsegue
Pat Phillips
Adee Roberson
Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa
Alake Shilling
Martine Syms
Mickalene Thomas
Mr. Wash
Jonas Wood
Rikkí Wright
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