Yossi Milo Gallery is delighted to present A Lacquered Egress, Richard-Jonathan Nelson’s debut solo exhibition in New York City and his first with the gallery. The show will open with an artist’s reception tonight, Thursday, December 15, from 6–8 PM and will be on view through Saturday, January 28, 2023.
Multimedia artist Richard-Jonathan Nelson’s (b. 1987; Savannah, GA) tapestries expand understandings of Blackness through Afrofuturist vision, boundless fantasy, and a reconstruction of the imagined spaces that hold Black bodies. Nelson’s experience with textile work dates back to his childhood in Savannah, Georgia, when his mother and grandmother taught him to sew. Stitching together different materials, the artist discovered how sewing could allow him to build his own worlds where queer Black bodies could exist outside of the Western colonial imagination. Today, the artist employs the processes of Jacquard weaving, applique, digital printing, and textile dyeing to create landscapes that are at once familiar and foreign: portals into sacred spaces which contain the potential to manifest a resilient Black existence that acknowledges trauma and envisions a path forward towards fantastical liberation.
Yossi Milo Gallery
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