We've been tracking the curatorial and artmaking activities of New Jersey-based visionary REBORN pretty much since Code Z opened its digital doors some six months ago (where does the time go?). First we checked her in Newark as she contemplated rituals of healing, then we remember catching up with her in Manhattan as she was preparing for her upcoming show Black Rock, at Gallery Aferro, also in Newark.
REBORN, also known as Noelle Lorraine Williams, paired with longtime collaborator Kevin Darmanie on Black Rock, which opens January 27.
The exhibition features 22 artists and "changemakers" who are of African descent or whose work is influenced by African diasporic forms and traditions. We note sometime graf writer Jerry Gant, flag impresario Dread Scott, and multimedia bricoleur Nyugen E. Smith among the artists on the roster. Other artists hail from Kenya, Ecuador, Jamaica, and 8 other countries. The exhibition takes up 2 floors of the gallery and includes a full installation of black comics. (D'ya hear that, Afrogeek?)
The exhibition's full title is Black Rock: The Metamorphosis of Home from Isolation to Connection Task Force Exhibition, and the show addresses concepts of home, community, and the place of the individual within it. Black Rock runs through February 24.
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wow. did anyone see her performance-based play with will power? amazing.
No. was this performance held at Aferro?
my bad. i was referring to a dj named reborn, not the artist....