Reparations: Some Things are Just Owed
and
Some More than Others
Solo Exhibition featuring Wesley Clark
September 22 – October, 31, 2019
artist statement | curatorial statement | about Wesley Clark
Through a revolutionary intellectual process, Wesley Clark (1979) in his first solo exhibition at Galerie Myrtis creates a fantastical world of interwoven history, Afro-futurists, coded messages and mechanisms for survival in his investigation of what America owes the descendants of slaves and most importantly, what they owe themselves.
In Reparations: Some Things are just Owed and Some More than Others Clark probes the vestiges of slavery by transporting viewers to the reconstruction era (1865-1877) where they discover Reparations & Co. (a. k. a. Rep & Co.), a company established by Rep. & Co. Brothers, Morris and Eugene. As protagonists in Clark’s fictional world, the Rep. & Co. Brothers deploy their carpentry skills and ability to see into the future to invent devices for coping with racial discrimination, social injustice, and trauma; while offering African Americans tools to navigate and survive in a society that deems them as “other.”
read full Curatorial Statement by Myrtis Bedolla
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2017
Oil paint, latex paint, shellac on plywood
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Oil paint, latex paint, shellac on plywood
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graphite on paper
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graphite on paper
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graphite on paper
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2019
graphite on paper
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2019
graphite on paper
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graphite on paper
6" x 4.5"
2019
graphite on paper
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