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Dawn Williams Boyd: The Tip of the Iceberg

Dawn Williams Boyd, Leaving Alabama, 2022.

Sept 21 – Nov 19, 2022
5 9th Ave, New York, NY 10014, United States

The critic and curator Sasha Bonét has called collage “the historical practice of Black imagination.” Dawn Williams Boyd’s collages of cloth create powerful images focused on Black life and America’s history of racial injustice. Boyd is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and has been working in collage for 40 years. Her ability to capture subtle characterization through piecework is astonishing. Twelve new large-scale works comprise this exhibition, titled to reflect Boyd’s feeling that “we are, in 2022, on the very precipice of changes to the way we define ourselves—the tip of the iceberg that we know hides disaster if we don’t make a course change immediately.” —Laura Jacobs

Photo courtesy of Fort Gansevoort