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DESCRIPTION:July 9 -  August 14, 2021, by appointment. July 10 & August 14, 2021, 7-9 
 pm\n\nJoin Root Division this July and August for "I AM...", curated by 
 Adrianne Ramsey. This group exhibition features 15 artists who question and 
 challenge established definitions and historical narratives in regards to 
 personal identity. The exhibition title is abbreviated from a 2013 painting 
 series made by American artist Hank Willis Thomas titled "I Am A Man." The 
 images are a reproduction and re-appropriation of the simple, declarative 
 protest signs carried by a large group of Black men during the 1968 Memphis 
 Sanitation Strike. The signs are meant to assert Black men's rights against 
 segregation and racism-affirming their identities as human beings and U.S. 
 citizens, while levying questions of representation, commodification, and 
 the value of one's identity.\n\nThe interdisciplinary works in "I AM..." 
 respond critically to the idea that American identity is complicit and 
 bound to patterns of violence and rampant discrimination. Adrianne Ramsey, 
 the exhibition's curator shares that: "over the past few years, we as a 
 nation have witnessed people from several marginalized groups-Muslims, 
 African-Americans, Latinos, undocumented immigrants, indigenous peoples, 
 and members of the LGBTQ+ community-protesting on and off the internet to 
 fight against the ideological and physical violence they often face. 
 Unfortunately, the continued passage and implementation of punitive 
 enforcement policies is a painful reminder of the political marginalization 
 of select groups in the United States." This exhibition explores a 
 historical throughline starting with the civil rights era imagery conjured 
 by the exhibition's title, moving into a recognition of the energy and 
 urgency of the identity politics of the 1980-90s, and into our current 
 era-where the language of discrimination and state violence simply 
 shifted-finding viable stakes in the age of social media and Donald 
 Trump.\n\nFree with RSVP.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/09/18843652.php
SUMMARY:'I Am...' 2nd Saturday Opening & Closing Receptions
LOCATION:Root Division\n1131 Mission St.\nSan Francisco, CA 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/09/18843652.php
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