Bill Lowe Gallery

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Explore our current exhibition The Alchemists online through this short video, now featured on our website.

The Alchemists presents work by twenty-eight artists who construct unique forms rooted in the Black experience and ancestral legacy to demonstrate that the modern magic of alchemy can indeed be done. Leaning on lessons gleaned from cinema, literature, music, and performance, this show peruses the influence of ideologies concerning what it means to be Black, looking through the lens of artistic practice to gaze perceptively on material culture, resistance strategies, rituals of commemoration, forms of play, speculative fantasies, and all else that lives in the house of blackness. Featuring works across a wide range of mediums, including painting, drawing, video, collage, assemblage, and installation, this exhibition aims to function as a critical platform for the manifestation of Black folks thinking their way through blackness, informally documenting Black material and ideological culture.

We look forward to welcoming new and returning visitors to Johnson Lowe Gallery during this final week of The Alchemists, closing this Saturday, April 29.

Videography by Lev Omelchenko