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Lola Ayisha Ogbara

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Projects
  1. A Bellow of My Laughter Pt. I
  2. A Bellow of My Laughter Pt. II
  3. Secret Language of the Fast Tailed
  4. Hues of Black and Blue
  5. A Hard Ori Makes A Soft Memory
  6. The Perfect Servant
  7. Forget-Me-Knot
  8. I Am a Clay Artist
  9. Mama, Mama

Curatorial

  1. The Promised Land

  2. where the light corrupts your face...
  3. Black Light Cinema Project
  4. of the land...


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Lola Ayisha Ogbara
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The Promised Land

January 20 - March 25, 2023
Location: South Side Community Art Center


Billie Carter-Rankin. Dora & George. 2019. Toner on inkjet print. 8 in. x 8 in. Darryl Terrell. 6ºN 14º45'21"N 17º20'36"W Dakar, Senegal. A Way to Get Gone, series. 2021. Archival inkjet print. 24 in. x 36 in. Lawrence Agyei. Black Boys in Blue. 2019. Archival photograph. 11 in. x 18 in. Holding On (Matriarchs and Matrimony).2022. C-Print. 17 in. x 7 in. Jen Everett. Untitled (Redoubled/Something We Carry, series). 2017. Archival Pigment Print. 22 in. x 26 in. (framed dimension). Rose Blouin. WP Baseball 14. 1987. Archival inkjet photograph. 16 in. x 20 in. Loren Toney. Jared, Age 21. 2018. Inkjet Print Framed. 13 in x 19 in. Mandela Hudson. Ma Dukes at the Fox Theater. Acquired 2017. Polaroid archival print. 4 in. x 5.6 in. Derrick Woods-Morrow. Excerpts from Acts of Divination (II) - Negation of Sight. 2019. Documentation of 2 hour durational performance. 32 in. x 48 in. Sulyiman Stokes. Untitled (Momma). 2018. Unique photographic work. 11 in. x 14 in.





The migration experience of African Diaspora people has greatly shaped what we know as the Black experience in the United States today. From the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to the Great Migration of 1916 - 1970, the movement of African Diaspora people has been documented furiously. In a photography exhibition focusing on the work of African American image makers and their decolonization of the lens, The Promised Land re-imagines stories of the big city life through Southern rooted influences, movement, and family portraiture. Eleven artists with familial ties to North and South of the Mason-Dixon Line respond to just how much Black life has always been in transit.

WBEZ Interview
The New York Times (mention)
Ruckus Journal (Review)
Checklist

Participating Artists:

Lawrence Agyei
Anwulika Anigbo
Rose Blouin
Billie Carter-Rankin
Jen Everett
Mandela Hudson
Shabez Jamal
Sulyiman Stokes
Darryl DeAngelo Terrell
Loren Toney
Derrick Woods-Morrow


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