Chaos Theory: the spectrum of black abstraction
February 2, 2024 - February 29, 2024
All Street Gallery is pleased to announce CHAOS THEORY: the spectrum of black abstraction, a group exhibition of new and recent works by a group of black artists interpreting the theme of black abstraction through sculpture, assemblage, photography, printmaking, and painting. Coinciding with Black History Month, the exhibition will be on view at the gallery’s 77 E 3rd Street location in the East Village from February 1 - 29, 2024. Depictions of voids, deconstructed bodies, and synesthetic emotional states offer diverse approaches to how blackness might be defined. Precarious, intricate, and even ephemeral materials depicting the human form underscore its fragility. Yet through abstraction, the self dissolves into textures, feelings, and concepts left open to observation and interpretation. CHAOS THEORY: the spectrum of black abstraction features work by Austin Sley Julian, Christl Stringer, C. J. Jackson, Faith McCorkle, Freddie L. Rankin II, Garry Grant and Shangari Mwashighadi. The exhibition is curated by Ciaran Short and Jabari Butler.