After The Quiet: On Black Figures and Folds

January 22 - February 19, 2022

A group exhibition, After the Quiet: On Black Figures and Folds, features  works by Adetola Abatan, Samantha Cremer, Xavier Kelley, and Ruth  Zekariase, four Black artists who currently or previously lived in Seattle. The  exhibition presents painting, collage, photographic print, mixed-media, and  works on paper. The exhibition is curated by Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud. 

Linking these works are mediations on the Black figure -- through portraiture,  collages, and works centering feet, backs, and hands -- and on folds -- through angles, lines, undulations, layers, and drapery. The exhibition’s title  immediately draws from Kevin Quashie’s The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond  Resistance in Black Culture, and Joshua Chambers-Letson’s After the Party:  A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life. Opening almost two years after the “twin  pandemics” of Covid-19 and 1619, and on the heels of pervasive racist  regimes (such as banning of Critical Race Theory), the exhibition asks: In 2022, how do folds and figures represent and imagine the everyday, quiet and beyond in Black life?  

The show’s opening on Saturday, January 22 includes an outdoor reception at 5pm. A virtual artist talk takes place on Thursday, February 10 at 5pm PST.  For this exhibition, artists receive 100% of all sales. Find more information at the exhibition website here: https://afterthequiet.wordpress.com/