WOMEN (UN)SILENCED at Black Wall Street Gallery in Greenwood – Curated by Emily McEwan-Upright – Gallery 1202 – limited “drop-in” capacity

This show seeks to challenge our audience to adjust and question their perspective on issues such as mental health, misogyny, racism, culture and gender by using the female figure as a tool in their respective medium. Depicted in a variety of mediums including photography, painting, digital illustration and textiles, the artists place female subjects into alternative narratives forcing the audience to reimagine these women through a different lens, which empowers both the subject and the artist.

Atlanta-based portrait photographer Tokie Rome-Taylor uses Creolization, portraiture and material culture to create an alternative narrative for southern women in a time when they had no rights or control over their bodies or lives. Samantha Viotty is a Washington D.C. based digital illustrator who focuses on identity and social issues in her work. Charica Daugherty, who is our inaugural artist-in-residence, is an oil painter who has recently begun a series of works exploring historical and biblical women figures. In this series, she relies on primary documents to visualize her characters and, in many cases, their bi-racial ethnicity. This show also features works by Abi Salami, Patricia Montgomery, and Aimée Everett. We’ll provide their bios in a later post. We want to thank Emily for curating such an incredible show. We love it and we hope you do too! All works of art are for sale!