🎨✨ We are open all weekend 12-6pm!!! Come see JON KEY’s solo exhibition!!! @jkey13 @carlfreedmangallery #JonKey ❤️💜💙 JON KEY ❤️💜💙 Solo exhibition ‘I, Too’. @jkey13 11th September - 6th November 2022 For his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Jon Key has created a new series of oil, and acrylic, paintings alongside two new large screenprints. The show also includes painted furniture and screenprinted wallpapers that will transform the gallery into a patterned space. All welcome, free entry. Jon Key is a Queer Black man originally from the small rural town Seale, Alabama now living and working in Bushwick, NY. A writer, designer and painter, his work excavates the lineage and history of his identity through four themes: Southernness, Blackness, Queerness, and Family. Through the process of writing, photography and painting, Jon’s work is portrayed graphically through four colors: Green, Black, Violet and Red. Respectively, these colors intertwine memory and intimate recounting of the four pillars grounding the work. As an educator, Jon has taught at MICA, Parsons, and currently teaches at Cooper Union. Jon is the Co-Founder and Design Director of Codify Art, a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to creating, producing, supporting, and showcasing work by artists of color, particularly women, queer, and trans artists of color. Jon work has exhibited with Steve Turner LA, Carl Freedman Gallery, Jeffrey Deitch NY and included in personal and institutional collections including Yale University, AIEVA Institute, and The Dean Collection. Key’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic. Jon was selected for Forbes 30 under 30 Art and Style list for 2020 and was the Frank Staton Chair in Graphic Design at Cooper Union 2018-2019. View more at https://www.jonkeyart.co/ The easiest way to get to #Margate is by fast-train from St Pancras or Stratford International. The journey is around 1 hour 30 minutes. The gallery is a short walk from the station. We look forward to welcoming you