Robert Sill curated a great show at Illinois State Museum's gallery in the Thompson Center. The exhibition that showcased an all star group of artists including Fred Wilson, Kerry James Marshall, Rashid Johnson, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon, my great friend Ian Weaver and many others tackles on topics that deal with race, religion, politics, and ethnicity. Go see it! You won't be disappointed. It's on view until May 8th.
Kerry James Marshall exhibited a couple of Winslow Homer like watercolors. Always onto pointing out contradictions, Kerry presents African Americans in unlikely representations.
Ian Weaver's work sits in as artifacts to a constructed history of the Black Bottom Community. Ian's desire to document his family history led him to the once existent community that were forced to move to make way for the Dan Ryan Expressway. Like an anthropologist, but with no terrain to excavate, Ian creates a fictionalized account of the Black Bottom Community. Black Power Helmet (as shown above) are one of the artifacts of this community. I personally would love to see his work displayed in a history museum. Maybe in the same fashion that Coco Fuso and Guillermo Gomez Pena presented their Undiscovered Amerindians.
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