Bryan Art Gallery
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, SC 29528
“Gnomon” is the part of a sundial that casts a shadow. Seventeen large-format relief prints and ten paintings examine historic lynching across the United States. These works memorialize the victims while “disappearing” the gleeful agency of the perpetrators in a gesture that turns the murderer’s erasure of Black bodies and souls on its head. The Rorschach-like abstractions reframe haunted experiences, and allow viewers to draw from primary knowledge and personal biases to more slowly contemplate their own positionality.
? “Drawing on history: Artist reclaims the past for a better future,” Frances Ludwig, The Chanticleer