After the Quiet: On Black Figures and Folds

After the Quiet: On Black Figures and Folds 

An exhibition 

January 22 – February 19,  2022 

Opening 

Saturday, January 22 

12-5p, with outdoor  

reception at 5pm 

Hours 

Saturdays, 12-5pm,  

and by appointment 

Participating artists

Adetola Abatan  (@asouliliquy) 

Samantha Cremer  (@samcremer.art) 

Xavier Kelley  (@xavierrkelley) 

Ruth Zekariase  (@ruthie.z) 

Exhibition Curator 

Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud jasminemahmoud@gmail.com @jasminemahmoud 

Taking Place at 

Mini Mart City Park 

6525 S. Ellis Ave S 

Seattle, WA 98108 

@minimartcitypark 

minimartcitypark.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

SEATTLE, WA: Mini Mart City Park -- a place for the arts, education,  environmental action, and community collaboration in the Duwamish Valley – is pleased to announce the opening of After the Quiet: On Black Figures and  Folds. The space’s inaugural exhibition will open on Saturday, January 22  and run until Saturday, February 19. 

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/