FREIGHT GALLERY

is pleased to present
JASON BULLUCK
 

Fig. 1-3, After Jacob Lawrence:
The back and forth between our selves and our geographies, as always, but then at the scale of industrialized cultural production, meant that for all, race-ethnicity, sexuality, and gender are reproduced and negated within our bodies.

Sunday, December 15, 4-6 PM

Jacob Lawrence’s Great Migration series helped situate the scale of economic, social, and psychological rupture for the US emerging from the largest internal migration in the country’s history.

I am responding to Lawrence’s ambition to produce visual language and a poetics of upheaval and affirmation sufficient to illustrate our contemporary experiences of the same and latter day geo-economic forces.

This installation, After Jacob Lawrence, explores profound effects of the industrial production of cultural forms–like hip-hop, once almost entirely liberatory, and now contested and highly commoditized–on the networks of identity (how could we separate our experience of racial, national, sexual or gender identity?) in which we find ourselves entangled.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Jason Bulluck is a conceptual artist, writer, and educator based in Washington, D.C. Through traditional and new media including sculpture, film, painting, and performance, Bulluck investigates liberatory practices and the complexities of identity. His work draws deeply from the Black Radical Tradition, Indigenous and Buddhist thought, engaging audiences in critical reflections on historical and contemporary systems of power. Recent projects examine the entanglements of cultural production, identity, and geography in the face of industrial and technological transformations, including collaborations toward liberation with through historic and advanced technologies, including AI-aided interventions.
www.jasonbulluck.com
@jasonmbulluck

FREIGHT GALLERY
2414 Douglas Street, NE
Washington, DC  20018

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Photo credit: Jason Bulluck