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Andrea Chung: if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesIn a new multiroom installation, artist Andrea Chung confronts the legacy and trauma of slavery from the perspective of an Afrofuturist utopia. For this work, Chung activates the possibility of a new world, a “Black Atlantis” called Drexciya, to subvert the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. Drexciya is an underwater world populated by the […]
Angela U. Drakeford: In bloom at the end of the world
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesFor her evocation of a sanctuary space, In bloom at the end of the world, Angela U. Drakeford calls forth stillness and rest. With books, comfortable seating, bird song recordings, and an abundance of plants that fill the gallery, Drakeford prioritizes an atmosphere that allows for processing grief of all kinds—including loss of memories, cultural traditions, and […]
Sky Hopinka: I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesAn elegy to the late Native American poet Diane Burns, Sky Hopinka’s I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become is a meditation on mortality, reincarnation, and the forms the transcendent spirit takes while descending upon landscapes of life and death The film continues Hopinka’s exploration of the ways his indigenous homeland, […]
Otis Houston Jr.: My Name is My Word
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesLiving in Harlem, New York, Otis Houston Jr. acts as an alchemist. He mixes everyday items, movements, and thoughts to create multimedia assemblages, paintings, performances, and text-based signs. Houston is best known for his public performances and installation work on FDR Drive by New York’s East River, where he has been working since 1997. These […]
SPACES Spotlight: Vollis Simpson
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesIn the mid-1980s, retired repairman Vollis Simpson (1919–2013) began using his collection of old farm equipment to construct monumental whirligigs in the fields around his Lucama, North Carolina, home. The site became a tourist attraction, enticing visitors to his rural property. In 2010, the nearby town of Wilson announced a plan to work with Simpson […]