Fridman Gallery is honored to announce, A Treatise On Color: Volume V, a group exhibition organized by curator and conceptual artist, J.E. Azmi (FKA James E. Bartlett). 

A Treatise On Color, is an artistic and historical exploration of color’s significance in shaping individual experiences and collective memory.  It asks viewers to grapple with the question: How has our relationship to color shaped our history and cultural present? The fifth in a series of multi-century, multimedia collaborations between Azmi and Fridman Gallery, A Treatise On Color: Volume V, features artwork and material culture spanning nearly 200 years of history, including works by artistic luminaries such as, Romare Bearden, Malick Sidibe, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles Gaines, and more.

Volume V, focuses the curatorial lens on portrait and landscape, exploring our connection to land and place as intractable components of identity and culture. The show features a unique mix of photography, painting, and mixed-media artworks from the 19th through the 21st century, in conversation with historical materials, documents, and innovative assemblages that Azmi coins curatorial contrafacts.  Throughout the course of the show, artworks and objects will rotate in and out of the gallery, offering new perspectives through which to engage. 

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