Chocolate-Coated, Freaky, and Habit Forming
A Gallery Show exploring The Funk Aesthetic
June 7-28/H&F Gallery
© S. Ross Browne, Quintessential LP, 2008,
acrylic on canvas
The Funk Aesthetic:
Chocolate Coated, Freaky & Habit Forming is
a gallery show of new art grounded in the aesthetic of Funk music of
the mid-sixties to early eighties. Funk celebrates life through transgressive
permutations of mind and body and a palette of candid metaphors drawn equally
from Black urban and rural experiences. Funk is tantric. Defiant. Improvisational.
Leud. And sacred. Featured artists include: Aniekan, Pedro Bell, S. Ross Browne,
Deadra Bryant, Miles Bumbray, K. Wesley E. Clark, Jamel Craig, Ronald "Stozo"
Edwards, Dejon N. Gee, Gary Johnson, Alexis Peskine, Akia "Space Lady" Quander-Jordan,
William Rhodes, Jerome Spinner, Katurah Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, and Tedra
Wilson. Works will be for sale.
Curated by Tonya Jordan w/commentary
by Thomas T. Stanley
Pedro Bell did the gatefold cover illustrations
for a series of crucial early Funkadelic albums. These intricately detailed
color-marker classics were an
early foray deep into the aesthetic language of Funk. Pedro Bell's artist
statement.
Download the press release for
The Funk Aesthetic.
H & F Fine Arts Gallery
3311 Rhode Island Avenue
Mount Rainier, MD 20712
301.887-0080
www.hffinearts.com
open: thurs & fri. 11am-7pm, sat. 10am-5pm, sun. 12-3pm
(Gateway Arts District/just over the DC line at Eastern Avenue)
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| June 7 5-8pm |
Opening Reception | H&F Gallery |
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7 9pm |
Performance |
Artmosphere
Cafe (next door to gallery/admission $10) MIND OVER MATTER MUSIC OVER MIND w/special guest DJ Iona Brown |
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| June 21 4-6pm |
Panel Discussion |
H&F Gallery |
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| June 28 5-8pm |
Closing
Reception & Artist Talk |
H&F Gallery |