We The People: Kandy G Lopez and Aminah Robinson
3rd September, 2024 – 9th November, 2024
ACA Galleries
173 10th Ave
New York
NY 10011
ACA Galleries is pleased to present We The People, an exhibition featuring mixed media, fiber, and stained glass works by multimedia Afro-Caribbean American portrait artist Kandy G Lopez and trailblazing visual artist Aminah Robinson. This intergenerational exhibition will feature a kaleidoscopic selection of over twenty works exploring the power and potential of honoring community through artistic representation.
Las Dos Kandys, 2024
Image of courtesy of ACA Galleries
Lopez and Robinson’s practices are both communally minded and deeply intimate, inspired by their relationships with individuals in their communities. By threading connections between material and personal histories, their work explores cultural narratives, shared histories, and psychological experiences, using mediums and materials including weaving, found objects, button and needle work, stained glass, and illustration.
Walking Up 125th St., 1989-1995
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As the title of the exhibition suggests, the artists’ works on view demonstrate their commitment to correcting the lack of representation across historical canons, pairing art with narrative storytelling that speaks to both individual and collective experiences. For seven decades, Aminah Robinson created artworks that told the story of the Black experience. She described her multivalent practice as “filling in the blank pages of American history.” Her works in We The People portray scenes of gathering, protest, and the mobilization of shared voices, particularly resonant in today’s tumultuous political landscape.
R² – Roscoe and Reggie, 2024
Yarn and acrylic paint on hook mesh
90 x 60 in
228.6 x 152.4 cm
Image of courtesy of ACA Galleries
Similarly, Kandy G Lopez’s striking portraits—accompanied in the show by texts showcasing the subjects’ personal narratives—spark dialogue surrounding the complexities of identity, colorism, and prejudice in America and the Caribbean. This is the first showing of the artist’s stained glass portraits, representing a new sphere of her multimedia artistic practice.
This is the first time Robinson and Lopez’s works will be juxtaposed in a gallery exhibition, following the gallery’s 2023 Armory Show presentation “Women in Fiber: Kandy G Lopez, Dindga McCannon, Faith Ringgold, Aminah Robinson, and June Wayne,” which spotlighted female artists working in fiber.
We The People: Kandy G Lopez and Aminah Robinson opens on the 3rd of September, 2024 until the 9th of November, 2024 at ACA Galleries
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