Then & Now: Chase Hall and Cameron Welch
Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York is pleased to present Then & Now, an exhibition curated by Antwaun Sargent, featuring new works by Chase Hall and Cameron Welch. The title draws upon the artists鈥� investigations of history and its resonance with contemporary life. Selected works are placed in dialogue, sharing formal explorations of the medium of painting. Whether it is through Welch鈥檚 use of collage elements in wall-mounted mosaic reliquaries (that he considers paintings) or through Hall鈥檚 inventive use of the white space to help achieve his portraits, both artists rethink the contemporary possibilities of the medium. Their unique painting styles and techniques also allow Hall and Welch to conceptually interrogate histories of painting that have reinforced dominant narratives that have often erased or overlooked Black contributions to modern and contemporary art. Both artists are based out of New York, continuing the Project Space鈥檚 commitment to dialogue and engagement with the local community.
This exhibition examines the ways in which these artists use painting and ready-made sculpture and traditions of craft to deconstruct fixed notions of race and memory. The artists in this exhibition consider both societal and personal history to protest master narratives of American history, codified through language and action. Their paintings and sculptures draw on popular national myths, figures and understandings of identity to propose new possibilities of being that seek to disempower mainstream narratives that inform common understandings of art, history and race. On their canvases, that oscillate between history painting and mythology, untold and new stories of the Black American experience unfold.
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Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York is pleased to present Then & Now, an exhibition curated by Antwaun Sargent, featuring new works by Chase Hall and Cameron Welch. The title draws upon the artists鈥� investigations of history and its resonance with contemporary life. Selected works are placed in dialogue, sharing formal explorations of the medium of painting. Whether it is through Welch鈥檚 use of collage elements in wall-mounted mosaic reliquaries (that he considers paintings) or through Hall鈥檚 inventive use of the white space to help achieve his portraits, both artists rethink the contemporary possibilities of the medium. Their unique painting styles and techniques also allow Hall and Welch to conceptually interrogate histories of painting that have reinforced dominant narratives that have often erased or overlooked Black contributions to modern and contemporary art. Both artists are based out of New York, continuing the Project Space鈥檚 commitment to dialogue and engagement with the local community.
This exhibition examines the ways in which these artists use painting and ready-made sculpture and traditions of craft to deconstruct fixed notions of race and memory. The artists in this exhibition consider both societal and personal history to protest master narratives of American history, codified through language and action. Their paintings and sculptures draw on popular national myths, figures and understandings of identity to propose new possibilities of being that seek to disempower mainstream narratives that inform common understandings of art, history and race. On their canvases, that oscillate between history painting and mythology, untold and new stories of the Black American experience unfold.
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