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November 10 - December 11, 2016
Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University
4501 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD, 21210
Panel Discussion
Monday, November 14, 7-8 PM
Featuring Kaye Whitehead, Matthew Mulcahy, Cheryl Derricotte and Nate Lewis
Artists' Reception
Tuesday, November 15, 5-7 PM
Disruptus is a group show at Vessel Gallery in Oakland.
Cheryl Derricotte's exhibition Ghost/Ships will be on view at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) as past of Women's History Month at MoAD through April 3rd, 2016.
The De Anza College art show, 'Burning Ice,' is a collaboration with the Silicon Valley Reads program, which this year focuses on water and climate change.
From water pollution and droughts to environmental activism, the show encompasses a wide range of climate topics.
Cheryl Patrice Derricotte‘s Ghosts/Ships offers a glimpse into the global African slave trade that is both subtle and direct in its links between past and present, culture and place. Inspired by Fred Wilson’s 1992-1993 project Mining the Museum — in which Wilson paired unlikely images and artifacts for a jolting and honest representation of America’s relationship with slavery — Derricotte mined the British Museum for public domain images related to the global African slave trade, merging them with contemporary mediums.
On display through April 3 at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco as part of their Emerging Artists Program, Ghosts/Ships invites visitors into a world of haunting images and words rendered in glass, paper and video.
Burning Ice will include selections of my past work dealing with environmental themes including “Katrina’s House” (2007), “Future House” (2009) and “Gentrification by Nature: The Tornado Project” with David Naito (2003).
For the second exhibition of the Museum of the African Diaspora's Emerging Artists Program, Cheryl Patrice Derricotte pays homage to Fred Wilson's "Mining the Museum", by "mining the library"--the British Library--for images related to the global slave trade.
Through work on glass and paper, Ghosts/Ships shares MoAD's four themes by uncovering historical representations of slavery to reveal a glimpse into the enduring legacy of the dispersal of African peoples throughout the world.
Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
Photography by Nye Lyn Tho.
