• @utaartistspace Tonight is the night! 🥳 Please join UTA Artist Space ATL from 7-9PM to celebrate the opening of “Mario Joyce: A Stranger’s House That Is Our Own” at the Historic Rail Park at Pullman Yards! In this new body of work, Joyce layers contrasting visuals through collage and painting to explore how African-Americans have often had to construct their own identities. Figures in the painting are “clothed” in vintage photographs depicting U.S. Union Troops, scenes from the Reconstruction era, colonial homes, and celestial landscapes. The works’ combination of expansive pastoral elements and interior spaces reflect a sense of home, comfort, and security – qualities which generationally have been self-constructed by Black Americans. By integrating these collaged elements into the paintings, Joyce draws a direct connection to his ancestry and history at large.