Let’s rename our city, an exhibition with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, is now extended through Saturday, April 3!
The exhibition was recently featured in Frieze as one of "the best shows along the Hudson River." Terrance Trouillot observes that in the deciphering of the artist's text-based works, "questions do reveal themselves, interrogating what it means to protect and reclaim spaces for Black, Brown, Indigenous, trans and queer communities." Read the full feature here.
YES, DEMAND, NOW, 2019, black gesso, acrylic, spray paint, 35 x 36 inches.
Let’s rename our city is the artist’s third exhibition and first solo show with the gallery. Included are five paintings from their 2020 show at Yerba Buena Arts Center (San Francisco, CA) that were never on view to the public due to Covid disruptions and restrictions. Also on view are painted collages, free-standing works, and site-specific murals that engage the dual private/public space of the gallery windows facing the street, disrupt the white space of the interior walls, and re-route the path of the viewer. The artist also provides printed takeaways that are available for and to the public.
Left: What are our poems of today?, 2020, acrylic and colored pencil on digital print, 48 x 31 inches. Right: Our hands keep our stories, 2020, acrylic and colored pencil on digital print, 48 x 31 inches.
Front: Let’s re-name our city, one block at a time, 2020, black gesso, acrylic, colored pencil on plywood, hardware, 48 x 24 x variable inches. Back: BLACK FUTURES MATTER (dedicated to all the car protests of 2020-21), 2021, paint marker, acrylic paint, soap.
We were inspired by Branfman-Verissimo's publication Slow Looking: These views are our tools (Childish Press, Portland, Maine, 2021), an invitation to practice new ways of looking in homage to the artist, educator, and activist Corita Kent. We invite visitors to make their own paper viewfinders to re-experience the works and space and to isolate new views that incite surprise, pleasure, and joy.
Next: Shake Up the Room, April 17- May 30, 2021
Featuring work by Reginald Madison, Sahana Ramakrishnan,
Razan Al Sarraf, Marcus Leslie Singleton, Brittany Tucker
Curated with Michael Mosby
SEPTEMBER is open Friday-Sunday: noon-5pm, and by appointment. Masks are required in the gallery. For further information, please visit the gallery or email kristen@septembergallery.com.
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