Color + Form = Blackstraction at Honfleur Gallery, Aug 20 - Sept 24

ARTIST TALK: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2-4PM

Featuring Artists
Aziza Claudia Gibson Hunter
Gail Shaw-Clemons
Adjoa J. Burrowes
Sheila Crider
& Curated by Terence Nicholson

Four women drawn together by abstraction merge decades of creating in parallel universes into a unified vision. Women Of An Undetermined Age synthesize the improvisation, the spirit, the spontaneity, the rhythm, and the experience of being Black in two and three dimensions.

Four artists in different cities grow up with the Black Arts Movement. They begin practicing during the Postmodern 1980s. Using mixed media with that foundation across disciplines, they accepted the challenge to make art expressive of black experience. After traveling the world and living many places, Women of An Undetermined Age (WOAUA) are now all based around Washington, DC and have joined forces.

Our four decades of object making rooted in the Black Arts Movement gives intellectual and physical agency to an ideology of black aesthetics that evolved through our point of view alongside the dominant male and western philosophies. In our work, surface, form, structure, image and material are employed through painting, printmaking and sculpture in an improvisation of process and experience that pushes our knowledge and the boundaries of each discipline.

Our goal as a group is to exhibit what we do in a fundamental and meaningful way that will influence dialogue going forward. The merging of our voices produces complex multifaceted exhibitions that promote interesting and thought-provoking conversations, a rich platform demanding a fresh look and reevaluation of abstraction from the 1980’s on.