Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory

Working in painting, drawing and sculpture, artist Torkwase Dyson combines expressive mark-making and geometric abstraction to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure and architecture. Dyson deconstructs, distills and interrogates the built environment, exploring how individuals, particularly Black and brown people, negotiate, negate and transform systems and spatial order. Of Line and Memory draws from years of Dyson’s own research and spatial memory of navigating the waterways and urban architecture of Chicago. Using the South Shore Cultural Center, a lakeshore landmark with rich historical and architectural significance, as a point of departure, Dyson extracts, reduces and refines architectural and visual cues into geometric shapes and painterly abstractions.
ISBN 9798985761399. GRAY. hb. 136 pages. 24 x 29 cm.
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