observing the creative phenomena / observando el fenomeno creativo

Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU

MSA-xperimental–Art, Collections, instalation, photo's, Print–January 22, 2018August 13, 2018

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Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU.

In 2013, Fifty Years after the infamouss attack on the African- Americans 16th street Baptist Church and the ensuing vilence throughout the city of Brimingham, Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953) Present a project to commemorate the children who were killed or injured. Over the course of seven years, Bey developed The Birminghame Project ….

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Collection Focus is a series of exhibitions that draw from works that have been a part of MOCA’s permanent collection for decades and create new ways to engage with past and recent acquisitions. The first in the series, Light Play, presents works that range from John Espinosa’s installation Standing Still While We Move Across Land, which explores UV light as a metaphorical energy source, to Jo Nigohossian’s formalist sculptures, Steel and Neon Sprawl, which was inspired by the flashing neon of a Las Vegas hotel from her childhood.