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Black Borders: Artists of Color, Reframing Culture – Artist Talks & Reception


Fort Worth Contemporary Arts - The Art Galleries at TCU

On view: March 3 – May 5, 2018
Curator Christopher Blay host the artists for an opening reception on March 3 at 6 p.m. Artist Talks begin at 6:30 p.m. during the opening reception.

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is pleased to present, Black Borders: Artists of Color, Reframing Culture, an exhibition featuring new video works and installations that both embrace and challenge notions of what it is to be a contemporary artist and a person of color. The practice of the participating artists navigates, supports and embodies this duality. What does it mean to be viewed as an African American artist, or a female artist of color? How do you make art that is your own within what is often considered a monolithic culture of Black art that is associated with the politics of race and social responsibility? These questions highlight the assumptions of audiences and the art-world expectations other artists, critics, curators and collectors.

Scarborough-based multi-disciplinary, conceptual artist Erika DeFreitas explores the influence of language, loss, and culture on the formation of identity through textile-based works, and performative actions that are photographed, placing an emphasis on process, gesture, and documentation.  DeFreitas has shown nationally and internationally, including Project Row Houses and Museum of African American Culture, Houston, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Angell Gallery, Toronto, the Art Gallery of York University, and Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg.  In 2016, DeFreitas was a Toronto Friends of Visual Arts Award finalist as well as the 2016 Recipient of the John Hartman Award.  She was a 2017 nominee for the Sobey Award and part of a residency at Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Amir George is a filmmaker and curator based in Chicago. Amir creates spiritual stories, juxtaposing sound and image with a non linear perception. He creates fragmented vignettes that conjure the secret life of objects both found and collected. The characters that inhabit his stories tend to dwell outside of social norms and exist in the space between and in the process of becoming. Amir’s short films has been screened at film festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, Afrikana Film Festival, and Chicago Underground Film Festival as well as cultural institutions, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Anthology Film Archives, Glasgow School of Art, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, and Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit.

Anansi kNOwBody is a nomadic multidisciplinary artist/ filmmaker currently based in Chicago IL. A recent graduate of Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas’ M.F.A. program, Anansi is most known for work in the form of socio-political themed screen based media, installation, and live performance. (kNOwBody will present a live performance during a reception for the exhibition.)

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is one of two galleries that comprise The Art Galleries at TCU.  Students and alumni of the College of Fine Arts and guest artists exhibit at these galleries.  Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is located at 2900 W. Berry St. on the edge of the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas.  Gallery Hours are Wednesday to Saturday, 12 – 5 pm, and by appointment.  Admission is free.

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2900 W. Berry St. · Fort Worth, TX 76109


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