EXHIBITION DETAILS

The Testament Project | Kris Graves

September 2 – October 22, 2016

Artist Talk: September 9, 6:00-7:00 Free

Reception September 9, 7:00-8:00 Free

STATEMENT

The Testament Project is an exploration and re-conception of the contemporary black experience in America. More often than not, black people are portrayed in the extreme - either as very rich or very poor, they are demonized, infantilized, ridiculed, idolized or hyper-sexualized; and within the art canon there is a noticeable scarcity of black representation. In the glowing portraits, I give control of the colored lighting to my subjects, in order to create a space that is participatory and empowered. By including my subjects in the creation of the scene and the altering of color, I seek to create photographs that portray individuality in addition to their blackness.