Torkwase Dyson
Blackblack Geography-Blackblack Distance (Multi Scalar Future)
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:15:30 AM GMT
Estimate
14,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Torkwase Dyson
b. 1973
Blackblack Geography-Blackblack Distance (Multi Scalar Future)
Executed in 2023.
Gouache, graphite, ink and acrylic on paper
16 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (41.3 × 31.1 cm)
Framed: 21 x 17 1/8 x 2 in. (53.3 x 43.5 x 5 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and GRAY Chicago/New York
With a practice that encompasses painting, drawing, and sculpture, Torkwase Dyson (b. 1973, Chicago, IL; lives in Beacon, NY) uses geometric abstraction to explore how individuals, particularly Black and brown people, negotiate their position in environments and systems built to subjugate them. This work, whose hybrid, amorphous shapes suggest the possibility for movement, stems from a series devoted to the ways enslaved people had to navigate spaces to attain their freedom. Dyson’s work was included in the MCA exhibition Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago (2020). Additionally, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, among others. Dyson’s work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC; and Studio Museum in Harlem.