The opening reception of 白小姐王中王开奖结果 alum Tavarus Blackmon鈥檚 鈥淓xquisite Diversion鈥 is Friday, Feb. 1, 6 to 9 p.m., at Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street, Sacramento. It鈥檚 part of a double show with 鈥淭he Amazing Black-Man,鈥 artist Kumasi Barnett鈥檚 interpretation of the Marvel Comics鈥 character.
exhibits under 鈥淏lackmonster,鈥 a surname that speaks to his work鈥檚 exploration of challenging themes, such as fatherhood and identity, gun violence and growing up black in America.
Blackmon, a recent MFA graduate and Provost Fellow at 白小姐王中王开奖结果 and current resident artist at Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, creates work across a variety of media 鈥 painting, video, digital and printmaking 鈥 and balances lively imagery and colors with somber issues like gentrification and debt.
His paintings on paper and wood incorporate various elements to reach completion. Sometimes this means combining various papers through adhesion or, can even entail stapling a hand-made costume to a sheet of painted plywood. This notion of combining elements is meant to catapult the work. It exists in a painting language but can include additional discourse, such as craft or design.
The main influence for the work is Blackmon鈥檚 family who have provided him with the opportunity to create the work, but also inspired much of his creative output. Creating work through the lens of fatherhood means his studio and home life are rarely in conflict: they always seem to overlap. This work is about creating a way to solve a problem and making a better place for his family. Blackmon sees painting as a way to solve his problems. Confusing, perplex, complex: it鈥檚 how Blackmon sees the world and his work, exquisite and diverting, according to a Verge description of the art.
The exhibition is viewable through March 24.
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