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Devin B. Johnson: Crossing
Crossing is a study of histories of representation, urban movement, and diasporic memory as refracted through the mind, heart, and hand of Devin B. Johnson. Drawing upon Gayatri Spivak鈥檚 essay 鈥淐an the Subaltern Speak?,鈥� Ramare Bearden鈥檚 strategies of cultural collage, and Francesco Careri鈥檚 鈥淲alkscapes,鈥� the paintings in this series are an overture to where Johnson鈥檚 practice is headed, synthesizing and coalescing the ideas and motifs of his previous exhibitions into his most focused body of work to-date. Through a material negotiation of Black memory, movement, and being, Crossing becomes an ode to the presence and opacity of markmaking, the history of painting, and Johnson鈥檚 lived and inherited experience.
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Crossing is a study of histories of representation, urban movement, and diasporic memory as refracted through the mind, heart, and hand of Devin B. Johnson. Drawing upon Gayatri Spivak鈥檚 essay 鈥淐an the Subaltern Speak?,鈥� Ramare Bearden鈥檚 strategies of cultural collage, and Francesco Careri鈥檚 鈥淲alkscapes,鈥� the paintings in this series are an overture to where Johnson鈥檚 practice is headed, synthesizing and coalescing the ideas and motifs of his previous exhibitions into his most focused body of work to-date. Through a material negotiation of Black memory, movement, and being, Crossing becomes an ode to the presence and opacity of markmaking, the history of painting, and Johnson鈥檚 lived and inherited experience.
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