Artist Talk: Marcus Jahmal

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The night will begin with a conversation between the artist and our artistic director Summer Guthery on Jahmal’s practice and how it relates to notions of dwelling and will be followed by open dialogue with the audience. The conversation will also be live streamed via our Instagram.

A self-taught artist, Marcus Jahmal’s domestic scenes are rich with metaphors that are often drawn from his life growing up in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood surrounded by a West Indies community. Jahmal’s scenes skew a sense of linear perspective, depicting interior scenes of individuals at home. Spaces lose their depth, slowly caving inwards as the floors rise and walls lean in, creating an air thick with psychological tension.

Presented as part of Dwelling (Ground Floor, on view through July 29) an exhibition features works by Marcus Jahmal (New York), Cheyenne Julien (New York), Ho Jae Kim (South Korea), Kenrick McFarlane (Chicago), Kyung- Me (New York), and Woody De Othello (Florida), and addresses our complicated relationship to ideas of home. While at times perspectives of home can sustain and nurture our bodies, they can also suggest the entrapment of people’s subjectivities. To learn more about the show and each artists, visit our website! 

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