[Artmajors] FW: Upcoming Exhibition!

Thu Sep 28 12:28:17 CDT 2023

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Subject: Upcoming Exhibition!
September 30th - November 4th, 2023
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The MAC is pleased to announce The Problem With Archives – an exhibition of work by Lillian Young featuring two projects - Wanted: The Runaways and The Black Elder Archive. The exhibition will be on view September 30th - November 4th, 2023, at the gallery’s main location, 1503 S. Ervay Street.

An opening reception will be held Saturday, September 30th from 6 – 9 PM.

The gallery is open weekly, Wednesday through Saturday, 12 – 5 PM.

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Lillian Young, The Black Elder Archive, 2022

The Problem with Archives: A Portrait is Worth Our Words, brings attention to how information about individuals in African American history has been lost to time and emphasizes the need to make conscious efforts to preserve the stories of the living. The visual limitations of archival documents can make it difficult for one to create a full picture of the tribulations and heroism of enslaved individuals. Consequently, we are often only left with the hate-filled and dehumanizing words of enslavers as a source to build upon. This exhibition highlights the imperative need that effort be made into documenting the stories of living individuals who have first-hand experience of living through Segregation and Jim Crow. We often fail to recognize the indispensable histories and lessons these testimonies can provide, but as The Problem with Archives: A Portrait is Worth Our Words demonstrates, these stories of inhumanity and callousness, and of resilience and survival can provide invaluable insight into the past and inspire change in our future.

The Problem with Archives: A Portrait is Worth Our Words features two projects, Wanted: The Runaways, and the Black Elder Archive. The Runaways is a series of 100 portraits (66 on display) of runaway slaves from the 1700s - 1800s. Each portrait uses the words from runaway advertisements to create an interpretation of the person mentioned using the vague and racist descriptions provided by enslavers in the notice. Specific details like scars and predominant facial features are painted realistically while surrounded by the actual words from the ads used to describe each figure. The Black Elder Archive uses portraiture and sound to highlight the stories of individuals who lived through Jim Crow and Segregation across the United States as teachers, factory workers, stay-at-home mothers, journalists, or activists. This exhibition invites viewers to consider how we have recorded history and what further steps must be taken in the future.

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Lillian Young, Hanna, 2021

About Lillian Young

Historical artist Lillian Young describes herself as a painter who moonlights as a printmaker and her works depict forgotten or muted moments in Black history and the Black experience. She focuses on lesser-known black figures, stories, and objects that are commonly known by the black communities, and wants her art to start a dialogue between people about the current racial issues faced today.

Lillian’s work has appeared in galleries across the United States and is currently on view in South Africa. Lillian is the Family Programs Coordinator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She received her BFA in Studio Art from Texas Christian University in 2018 and in the Spring of 2022, she received her MFA in Studio Art with a certification in Museum Studies from Michigan State University. Lillian has worked at the Kimbell Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The National Portrait Gallery, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago

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