Dr. Fred Pestello, President | St. Louis University
Dr. Fred Pestello, President | St. Louis University
MOCRA is presenting “Meditations: Black Expression, Abstraction, and the Spirit - Live” on Saturday, May 3, from 1:30 to 4 p.m. The event will be held at SLU's Anheuser-Busch Auditorium in Cook Hall, located at 3874 Lindell Blvd, and there will be an option to join online for those who cannot attend in person. Admission is free.
The series, titled “Meditations,” explores how spirituality and the artistic practice of Black creatives interact with the ideas within abstraction. It is inspired by the final panel in Frederick J. Brown’s work, Life of Christ Altarpiece, specifically The Descent into Hell, which is an abstracted meditation on both spiritual and emotional aspects within lived experiences.
Artists featured in the series have been invited to reflect on the interconnection of spirituality, abstraction, and Black cultural production. “Meditations” aims to contribute to the discourse surrounding Black cultural production in Western art history. It seeks to open the dialogue for the contribution of Black artists beyond representation politics by highlighting abstraction as a tool to express aspects of the Black experience that go beyond the body politic.
The panel includes Bentley Brown, Dail Chambers, Damon Davis, Olubukola Gradegesin, Summer Sloane-Britt, and Sydney Vernon.
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