The Furman University Department of Art will present an exhibition by Quinn Hunter Sept. 29-Oct. 31 in Thompson Gallery of the Roe Art Building. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 16, at 5 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
Hunter’s “Paradise” focuses on the systematic destruction of Black urban space in the mid-20th century United States, specifically Detroit’s Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. Hunter creates woven tapestries based on archival photographs of these locations, which she then dismantles and reassembles. The resulting textiles layer history, geography and social relations to honor resilience, imagine new futures and reflect on diasporic spaces.
