ECHOES OF FERGUSON
August 9 - May 25, 2025
Location: Chicago Justice Gallery
Kris Graves, 08092014 | Michael Brown | Ferguson 12:00 PM (A Bleak Reality, series). 2018. Archival Image. 30 x 40 in.
Alexis Hunley, Untitled (The Club Nobody Wants to Join). 2020. Archival Image. 20 x 28 in.
Jen Everett, Untitled. (A Blues For…, series). 2014. Archival Image. 13 x 20 in.
Jen Everett, Untitled. (A Blues For…, series). 2014. Archival Image. 13 x 20 in.
Jen Everett, If nothing else the kid was a thief [text] (A Blues For…, series). 2014. Archival Image. 13 x 20 in.
Devin Allen, Untitled (No Justice, No Peace, series). 2020. Archival Black & White Image. 16 x 24 in.
Devin Allen, The Flag (A Beautiful Ghetto, series). 2015. Archival Black & White Image. 16 x 24 in.
Joshua Rashaad McFadden, Abdullah Muflahi | Triple S Food Mart, Baton Rouge, LA. (Ten Years of Grief, Black Lives Matter, series). 2022. Archival Pigment Print. 24 x 36 in.
Alexis Hunley, Untitled (The Club Nobody Wants to Join). 2020. Archival Image. 20 x 28 in.
Joshua Rashaad McFadden, Sybrina Fulton | Trayvon Martin Avenue (Ten Years of Grief, Black Lives Matter, series). 2022. Archival Pigment Print. 24 x 36 in.
Kris Graves, 07072014 | Eric Garner | Staten Island 3:30 PM (A Bleak Reality, series). 2018. Archival Image. 30 x 40 in.
Jon Henry, Untitled #58, St Louis, MO (Stranger Fruit, series). 2018. Archival Image. 24 x 30 in.
Jon Henry, Untitled #61, Omaha, NE (Stranger Fruit, series). 2020. Archival Image. 24 x 30 in.
Kris Graves, 08092014 | Michael Brown | Ferguson 12:00 PM (A Bleak Reality, series). 2018. Archival Image. 30 x 40 in.
Echoes of Ferguson is a commemorative and emotional retrospective of the residue left behind in the wake of Ferguson’s uprising. This exhibition illuminates themes of grief, evanescent placemaking, memory, memorial, monument, and a resistance to state violence. Through the photographic image, love, intimacy, and community become the centerpiece and catalyst for movement work. In addition, an audio collage creates a dynamic sonic narrative of personal and collective echoes of voices heard across generations of movement work. Activated to document the complexities of Black life, photographers Devin Allen, Jen Everett, Kris Graves, Jon Henry, Alexis Hunley, and Joshua Rashaad McFadden become storytellers echoing a movement resisting the social injustices that reverberate throughout 21st-century Black life and American life
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Participating Artists:
Devin Allen
Jen Everett
Kris Graves
Jon Henry
Alexis Hunley
Joshua Rashaad McFadden