Yossi Milo Gallery presents A Lacquered Egress, Richard-Jonathan Nelson’s debut solo exhibition in New York City, and his first with the gallery. The show will open with an artist’s reception on Friday, December 9, and will be on display until January 28, 2023.

Multimedia artist Richard-Jonathan Nelson’s tapestries expand understandings of Blackness through Afrofuturist vision, boundless fantasy, and a reconstruction of the imagined spaces that hold Black bodies.

Exploring notions of place, space, and identity, A Lacquered Egress embeds Nelson’s experience of displacement within broader histories of forced migration and exodus. As a young adult, the artist relocated from his native Georgia to the San Francisco Bay Area; with its booming technology industry, the region offered an opportunity for economic success and a refuge from the more conservative traditionalism that filled his youth.

Source: yossimilo