Visual identity conceptualized and developed for Abstractions of Black Citizenship: African American Art from Saint Louis, a group exhibition with works by Dominic Chambers, Damon Davis, Jen Everett, De Nichols, and Katherine Simóne Reynolds, five Black Saint Louis, MO-based artists. 




I collaborated with curator, Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud, and gallery manager, Molly Mac, to create a comprehensive visual identity for the show that tied together the work of individual artists. Key to this project was creating a unique visual presence that didn't impose on the artists' works but which resonated with the show’s central themes and topics and established a unifying visual presence.

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“...this exhibition uses abstraction—as an aesthetic, geographic, and political conceit—to capture how Black aesthetic practices emerging from Saint Louis region interrogate the region’s civic structures, and reorchestrate aesthetic, geographic, and political space for Black imagination, presence, and citizenship within and beyond those structures.”

This show was originally intended for presentaion at the Hedreen Gallery in March of 2020, but was re-imagined as a digital exhibition due to stay-at-home orders. A web archive of the original online exhibition can be accessed here (courtesy waybackmachine).