Home: Reimagining Interiority
April 27 - August 01, 2022
NYU Tisch Gallery & Young Arts Gallery Miami
Group Show Curated by Dr. Joan Morgan & Dr. Deborah Willis
Home: Reimagining Interiority is curated by Dr. Joan Morgan and Dr. Deborah Willis and featuring works by 20 YoungArts award winners, Home: Reimagining Interiority at Young Arts Miami FL opens to the public April 27, 2022 with a panel discussion 6-7pm. The exhibition will be free, open to the public until August 1, 2022.
Black visual narratives have responded in significant ways to dynamic cultural, political, social, economic and intimate changes. Exploring topics from physical space to identity through photographic and text-based artwork created against the backdrop of a global pandemic, Home: Reimagining Interiority forces us to (re)interrogate previous conceptions of Blackness and home.
Exhibition Opening
April 27, 2022 5-8 PM
Panel Discussion 6-7 PM
@ Young Arts Miami 2100 Biscayne Blvd Miami, FL 33137
On View 4/27/2022- 08/31/2022
Featured artists are Nina Osoria Ahmadi (2019 Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), Priscilla Aleman (2009 Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), Daveed Baptiste (2016 Photography & Visual Arts), Catherine Camargo (2017 Visual Arts), Eli Dreyfuss (2016 Photography), Glenn Espinosa (2016 Visual Arts), Phylicia Ghee (2006 Photography), Svet Jacqueline (2010 Photography), Carlos Hernandez (2019 Photography), Kayla Hunt (2018 Writing), Jessica Kim (2022 Writing), Ava Kinsey (2004 Writing & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), Dez Levier (2022 Writing), Zayira Ray (2018 Photography), Coralina Rodriguez Meyer (2000 Visual Arts), Ackeem Salmon (2016 Photography & 2017 Visual Arts), Saint Samuel (2022 Photography), Cornelius Tulloch (2016 Design Arts & Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts), Triniti Wade (2018 Writing), and Nadia Wolff (2016 Design Arts & Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts).
The Young Arts exhibition, Home: Reimagining Interiority, curated by Dr. Joan Morgan and Dr. Deborah Willis is currently on view at Young Arts Miami gallery April 27, 2022 - August 1, 2022.
In 2021, while deeply in the grip of the isolating and lingering precarity produced by what was then a yearlong global pandemic, mass civil uprisings and the daunting economic insecurity faced by so many artists; Dr. Deborah Willis and Dr. Joan Morgan, found themselves searching for the “right” theme for the Center for Black Visual Culture’s (CBVC) programming.
“Home: What is it now?” allowed us to offer our academic, activist and artistic communities a place to ponder, to contemplate new questions about how this collision of unprecedented events changed the ways we define and interrogate blackness. Sadie Barnett, Tarana Burke, Julian Castro, The Louis Armstrong House Museum and Tyler Mitchell are some of the folks and cultural centers we’ve been fortunate enough to have join us in our musing.
We extended an invite to YoungArts award winners to join us in thinking through the changing frameworks of “home.” In doing so, we hoped to amplify the significant ways black and brown visual and textual narratives have responded to the dynamic cultural, political, social, economic and intimate changes of the current moment, while highlighting the direct, mandatory challenge their work poses to previous conceptions of diasporic blackness, home, gender, sexuality and identity. The result is this powerful exhibition, Home: Reimagining Interiority. Taken together, these 20 artists and their visual and written texts demonstrate the concerted power of creative will, unabated by the extreme pressures of extended periods of lockdown and isolation.
Home: Reimagining Interiority is made possible with support from Miami Downtown Development Authority. We also thank the generous donors who have contributed $40,000 or more to YoungArts programming as we celebrate YoungArts’ 40th anniversary, including Aon; Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation; Sarah Arison & Thomas Wilhelm; Jill Baufman & Daniel Nir; Carnival Foundation; Tracey Corwin; Jeffrey Davis & Michael Miller; David Dechman & Michel Mercure; Natalie Diggins & Oren Michels; Givenchy; Agnes Gund; Hearst Foundations; Michi & Charles Jigarjian / 7G Foundation; John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Leslie & Jason Kraus; Ashley Longshore; Steven & Oxana Marks; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; Northern Trust Bank; The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation; Prada; Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP; State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; Sidney and Florence Stern Family Foundation; Sandra & Tony Tamer; Bruce & Ellie Taub; Truist Wealth; and UBS Financial Services, Inc.
About the Curators:
Dr. Deborah Willis – As an artist, author and curator Deb Willis’s art and pioneering research has focused on cultural histories envisioning the Black body, women and gender. She is a celebrated photographer, acclaimed historian of photography, MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, and University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Willis received the NAACP Image Award in 2014 for her co-authored book Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (with Barbara Krauthamer) and in 2015 for the documentary Through a Lens Darkly, inspired by her book Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present. Other book and exhibitions projects include Posing Beauty in African American Culture and The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship.
Dr. Joan Morgan is the Program Director of the Center for Black Visual Culture at New York University. She is an award-winning cultural critic, feminist author, Grammy nominated songwriter and a pioneering hip-hop journalist. Morgan coined the term “hip-hop feminism” in 1999, when she published the groundbreaking book, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks it Down, which is taught at universities globally. Regarded internationally as an expert on the topics of hip-hop, race and gender, Morgan has made numerous television, radio and film appearances—among them HBO Max, Netflix, Lifetime, MTV, BET, VH-1, CNN, WBAI’s The Spin and MSNBC. She has written for numerous publications including Vibe, Essence, Ms., British Vogue and The New York Times.
Dr. Morgan has been a Visiting Scholar at The New School, Vanderbilt and Duke Universities and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Cultural Analysis at NYU. She was a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University’s Institute for the Diversity of the Arts where she was awarded the prestigious Dr. St. Clair Drake Teaching Award. She is the first Visiting Scholar to ever receive it. Dr. Morgan is a mentor for Unlock Her Potential and serves on the Board of Trustees for YoungArts. She is currently working on a screenplay adaptation of her first book, which has been optioned for screen rights. Jamaican born and South Bronx bred, Dr. Morgan is a proud native New Yorker.
https://youngarts.org/press-releases/home-reimagining-interiority-co-curated-by-dr-joan-morgan-and-dr-deborah-willis/
