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| Title: | Tavares Strachan: Between Me and You | | Date: | 11/9/2024 - 6/1/2025 | | Address: | Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin, TX 78712 | | Location: | Austin, TX | | Hours: | Tuesday-Friday & Sunday: 10am-5pm, Saturday: 10am-8pm | | Cost/Cover: | free-$15 | | Web Page: | https://blantonmuseum.org/rotation/tavares-strachan/ | | Contact Info: | 512-471-5482 |
| Details: | Tavares Strachan’s artworks intentionally defy categorization. Spanning sculpture, performance, painting, ceramics, and immersive installations, Strachan’s work explores themes of cultural displacement, migration, and human aspiration by uplifting often hidden histories. At the Blanton, Strachan transforms the Contemporary Project gallery into a waist-high ‘meadow’ of dried rice grass. Rice is a staple of the Afro-Caribbean diet and connects the people and histories of the African diaspora with African societies. Viewed from above, the terrain shapes the form of a Ghanaian Adinkra symbol. A West African system of writing through symbols, Adinkra represent concepts or aphorisms. They are deeply tied to the philosophy of West Africa and have over the centuries contributed to preserving West African history, stories, and values. Here, Strachan uses the Andikra symbol Mmere Dane, or “time changes,” which articulates the spiritual and philosophical concept of impermanence. At the center of the rice meadow sits a large-scale ceramic sculpture.
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| Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Exhibit | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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