& THE INVISIBLE & THE UNBELIVERS: NEW WORKS AT SOUTH SIDE COMMUNITY ART CENTER
Chicago-area
artists featured with wide range of perspectives through black lens
CHICAGO
(August 2014) – The South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) presents artists
Stephen Flemister and Krista Franklin, in
& the invisible & the unbelievers
running August 29 – September 27. The
opening reception for the exhibit will take place Friday, August 29 from 6 – 9
p.m. at the SSCAC located at 3831 South Michigan.
This exhibit
deals in notions of the digital portrait, the anonymous and the hybrid
borrowing its title from poet Amiri Baraka’s prose. Both artists are alumni of
Chicago’s Columbia College and their work makes its return to the region with
an exploration of the modern portrait through the lens of contemporary digital
culture.
Flemister is
a mixed media artist from the south side of Chicago and has exhibited in
various solo and group shows in galleries such as Dittmar Memorial Gallery at
Northwestern University, Hyde Park Art Center, and has been a featured artist
of HyPa and the Hennessey Artistry Tour (2010). According to Flemister,
“remixing today’s modern technology with traditional studio art, my work
concerns itself with the phenomena of ‘profiling’ and the concept of the
virtual identity.”
Franklin’s
work is centered on the intersection of the literary and the visual, often
exploring the conceptual concerns of Afrofuturism and AfroSurrealism. She is
the co-founder of 2nd Sun Salon, a community meeting space for
writers, visual and performance artists, musicians and scholars. She has held
residences at Cave Canem, A Studio in the Woods and Arts + Public Life/Center
for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago.
The closing reception/artist talk will be held Saturday, September 27
from 2-5 p.m. For more information on upcoming
shows and the 75th Anniversary of the SSCAC, please visit www.sscartcenter.org or follow the SSCAC
on Facebook
and Twitter.
About The South Side Art Center
The South Side
community Art Center (SSCAC) is one of the last remaining WPA arts centers in
the country and the only surviving African American art center. The SSCAC preserves, conserves, and promotes
the legacy and future of African American art and artists while educating the
community on the value of art and culture. SSCAC is the bridge that links
the history and future of visual arts through creation, preservation,
education, conservation and exhibition. Through its mission and rich history,
SSCAC seeks to infuse history into the future of art.
