Traveling exhibition Esoteric Lore continues when it’s next stop at the Auburn Ave Research Library in Atlanta, Ga opens tonight. Esoteric Lore: Visual Storytelling is a growing collective of eight female artists sharing empowering artwork that engages and responds to one sided and often times negative representations of black women in mainstream media. The collective features an array of talented painters, photographers, videographers and musicians including Corinne Stevie Francilus, Taryn Lee Crenshaw, Iman Person, Nikita Gale, Michelyah, Elizah Turner, Crystal E. Monds, and Faatimah Stevens.
By manipulating objects such as vinyl records, mirrors, wood, canvas, paper, and plastic these women are sculpting eclectic interpretations of process art. According to the artists, “focusing on the end result, we see the value in capturing the method of production. We define process art as the relationship between the creator and the created.”
“Through our representations of process art, we allow time to be an integral factor in the creation of a piece. Time is life’s greatest artist and we aim to pay homage to it. It is through this element that we implicate the necessity of human connections to Mother Nature. We are apart of her, as she is apart of us, as we are apart of one another. Relationship to what is natural is necessarily one of our reoccurring themes. The building of this collective itself is a perfect example of the natures of relationships sustained through art,” they later added.
Esoteric Lore opens tonight, March 11 at The Auburn Ave Research in Atlanta, GA. The exhibition will run through April 30. Take a closer look at images from the show below.
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