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Join Curator Mike Calway-Fagen, and Education Consultant, Josiah Golson, in the Studio with Rontherin Ratliff Friday, July 10th at 5 PM EST. Rontherin will be a participating artist in the exhibition Living Room which will run in our 2021 exhibition season AND in a two-person show with Rondell Crier in the Fall of 2021. Mike, Josiah, and Rontherin will be continuing their conversation about how their work reinforces and/or breaks down the themes explored in the exhibition.
About Rontherin:
Rontherin Ratliff was born in New Orleans where he currently lives and works. He is a self-taught artist who's work explore the relationship between aspects of architecture as analogous to the characteristics of the human conditions. He is a member of Antenna and LEVEL Artist Collective in New Orleans. Recent exhibition venues include the Elsewhere Museum (Greensboro, NC), Art Route 2017 (Groningen, NL), Xavier University Gallery (New Orleans, LA), Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University (New Orleans, LA), Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Deering Estate (Miami, FL), Governor’s Island, (New York,NY), 516 ARTS (Albuquerque, NM), Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery (Worcester, MA), University Galleries, FAU (Boca Raton, FL) and The Ford Foundation Gallery (New York,NY).
About Living Room
Living Room The group exhibition I've invited you to participate in, Living Room, runs from April 16-June 13, 2021. Here is a preliminary, introductory text for the exhibition: It is said human existence requires five things: food, air, water, sleep, and shelter. Of these five things four seem inarguable; essential things that are not just in-addition-to-bodies, they are bodies, they sustain bodies. But the fifth, Shelter, seemingly lies outside the person. But does it? Shelter in its most culturally ubiquitous form materializes as house. Houses are often represented in shorthand, in things like diagrams and tables, by simple shapes. The triangle atop a square is easily recognizable and functions as a symbolic catchall. But past the symbol’s monochromatic surface what is there? Dwellings are not so easily compartmentalized, and often what constitutes home has less to do with the physical structure and its constituent parts and more to do with what’s on the inside. Or more specifically, what goes on in the inside. So, if the outside is largely inert, the insides kick and scream, and grieve, and love, and laugh, and leave. They are continuous, in life, and well afterwards. They are Living Rooms.
A multifaceted and many-media(ed) exhibition, Living Room brings together artists from across the United States to explore it all; the living room, living in rooms, the tangible and many intangible ways that rooms live.