Greetings Sistas:

I am very excited and pleased that you are able to join me as I present my first "solo" show in a number of years. I look forward to the installation, the dialogue and the interaction. I encourage you to utilize this blog for questions and comments about our collaborative work.

This installation follows "Silence Speaks", which was installed at The Contemporary in 2002. In that installation historical narrative was re-imagined and reinterpreted using family stories, objects, and photographs that were juxtaposed against the environmental confines of a 19th century Georgia sea island plantation. The installation entitled, "Silence Speaks" utilized the stereographic format as a vehicle to examine the past and the present, allowing the viewer the opportunity to visualize simultaneously how white society viewed "the other" and the way that we interpreted the spiritually charged and transferential world of our own African-American imaginal space.

We return to fetch the past (Sankofa)
in this new work that once again utilizes the stereographic format.

I hope that we can challenge the present by looking at the way that African American women are viewed (or are made to be invisible) in contemporary society. Like the women in the stereocard that we have chosen, we are defiant, cautious, guarded--complex--the antithesis of the stereotype. Our images will speak to these notions.

Below are dates for the show, which will run through the National Black Arts Festival. I will post a more precise timeline once the museum provides me with information. If you get a chance, check out the April issue of Atlanta Magazine. Writer Virginia Parker has listed the exhibition as one of "twelve pulse-pounding, mesmerizing, captivating, thoroughly entertaining arts events you can't miss." It's up there with an exhibition by Chuck Close and the Broadway play "Wicked" just to name a few. In other words ladies, "It's Showtime!"

Dates: July 8, 2006 - September 16, 2006

Opening Reception: July 8, 5:30p.m. - 8:30 p.m.