Unification: Where Past Meets Present the Future is Born

Multidisciplinary artist Dawn Flores atones for racial injustice while pointing to a future that transcends the sins of our country’s foundation in white supremacy, in Unification: Where Past Meets Present the Future is Born. This work reflects 30 years of her living in the former capital of the Confederacy and her ongoing effort to unlearn false narratives. The focal point of this exhibition is a two-sided American flag made from photographs of graffiti on the Confederate monuments before they were taken down, in Richmond, Virginia. One side is right side up, denoting our perfect union. The other side is upside down, denoting a nation in distress. Assemblage pieces examine the brutal reality of our country’s past while giving insight into our painful present. Accompanying this work is “Funeral of a Nation”–a musical essay by Grammy award-winning musician and founder of Hardcover Records, Harold Lilly, and filmmaker, Keith Nixon Jr.

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Way Finding

Way Finding, an installation of recent works that seek to expand the language of abstraction. Through contrasting painted materials, the exhibition serves as a reference to the unanticipated changes we experience in our daily lives. An earlier body of work titled “Ghosts’ Stories” started with canvases used to absorb excess paint from a previous series, which used polyester quilt batting as a substrate. Her objective here is to employ both materials in the same work to articulate contemporary events.

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