Repost from @galerielelong • • GALERIE LELONG: DIALOGUES⁠ •⁠ "Abstraction: Investigations of Social Change"⁠ Thursday, May 6, 2021⁠ 3:00pm ET⁠ ➡️Follow link in bio to register⁠ and read speaker bios⁠ ⁠ Join a conversation with artists #AdebunmiGbadebo (@adebooms), #SamuelLeviJones (@slevijones), and #TarikuShiferaw (@abstractexit) moderated by critic #SephRodney (@sephsees) on the embedding of social and political concerns within formal abstraction.⁠ ⁠ Gbadebo, Jones, and Shiferaw belong to a new generation of Black artists who are pushing the language of abstraction while retaining their cultural specificity; a movement that Rodney identified in a 2017 essay for @Hyperallergic. Coming of age in a period when the consciousness of racial violence had reached a national scale, these artists address injustices toward minorities in their practices, charging their abstractions with a message for social change.⁠ ⁠