In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light
© William Downs, 2024
© William Downs, 2024
Giertz GalleryParkland College2400 W Bradley AveChampaign, IL 61820 November 14, 2022 – February 18, 2023 In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light, curated by Patrick Earl Hammie, centers around drawing as a technology from which artists speculate, recover and collect communal histories, and manifest stories of desired futures from the margins of imagination into the realities of the everyday. The title draws inspiration from DC’s Green Lantern Corps’ oath, “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might, beware my power, Green Lantern’s light,” from which members of the fictional space guardians …