2130 W. Fulton St., Chicago, IL 60612
Wednesday-Thursday: 11AM-5PM
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Felicific
Friday, March 1, 2024 from 5-8pm
Shonna Pryor bARBER
Chicago Artists Coalition proudly presents Felicific, a two-person exhibition by 2023-24 HATCH Residents Shonna Pryor and bARBER. The dynamism of Black American culture informs their practice to subjectify the language of visual art with traditional and non-traditional materials and processes. Felicific references the joy and celebration of the Black experience while positioning it beyond objectivity into a posture of perspective.
Shonna Pryor is a conceptual artist who considers her found objects to be reclaimed testimonials of previous lives. Her interdisciplinary art practice critically engages memory, play, and power politics. Pryor’s work nourishes pathways for generative futurist speculation that mine the historical past.
bARBER is a non-representative figurative painter relying on elements of abstraction to personify the invisible nature of the individuals he paints. Heavily influenced by the music and makeshift bred from the underserved quadrant of Black American culture, he repurposes everyday materials, such as junk mail, packaging, and found objects, to construct artworks from a cultural perspective.
The opening reception will be on March 1 from 5-8pm.
Image: bARBER, Ingrid for all of Mexico
About Artists
Shonna Pryor is a conceptual artist, art programs producer, and an educator at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her interdisciplinary art practice is inspired by references to food theory and its peripheral objects and concepts as a lens through which to critically engage the politics of identity, memory, power, and play. Afrofuturist aesthetics underscore the visual language of these expressions via reclaimed objects, installation, painting and public programming. Pryor's work has been exhibited in major cities such as Chicago, Detroit and New York, with esteemed artist residencies at Hyde Park Art Center; High Concept Labs; and Chicago Council on Science and Technology, respectively.
WallPAPER of Respect--Cocoa
bARBER (b. 1982, US) lives and works in Midwest America. He is a non-representative figurative painter relying on elements of abstraction to personify the invisible nature of the individuals he paints. Heavily influenced by the music and makeshift bred from the underserved quadrant of Black American culture, he repurposes everyday materials, such as junk mail, packaging, and found objects, to construct artworks from a cultural perspective.
Please learn more at www.PropelledAnimals.org and @BarberPaintsPeople.
Kathryn, 90” x 42”, mixed media on paper
