August 20 - Sept 24 | Color + Form = Blackstraction at Honfleur Gallery
OPENING THIS SATURDAY, AUGUST 20TH
Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12-5 pm and by appointment
Honfleur Gallery
1241 Good Hope Road, SE
Four women are drawn together by abstraction and 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 in 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 the black experience. After traveling the world and living in many places, Women of An Undetermined Age (WOAUA) are now based around Washington, DC, and have joined forces.
Our four decades of object-making rooted in the Black Arts Movement give 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 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 1980s on.