Topography

Tinney Contemporary is pleased to present Topography, curated by Fisk University’s Jamaal B. Sheats, MFA from October 3rd to November 28th. Topography is an exhibition that uses art to explore communities across the United States. Within these communities are layers – and Topography focuses on the context of memory, individuality, community cohesion, and characteristics of social and economic (in)equalities that collectively create layers of a conceptual topographical map. This group exhibition features works by Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Alicia Henry, Wesley Clark, Alfred Conteh, and the curator, Jamaal Sheats. 

If you think of a topographical map, the dynamic surface helps one navigate the area in which they are even more definitively. The diversity of the medium of the works gives that dynamism to the concepts held within this exhibition and helps the installation “operate like the pieces of a puzzle – with each layered together to create a conceptual topographical map,” according to Sheats.