Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory

GRAY is pleased to announce Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory. For the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Dyson debuts a pair of monumental sculptures, new paintings, and constructions in glass and wood. Of Line and Memory opens at GRAY Chicago with a public reception for the artist on November 8, 2024 and remains on view through January 25, 2025.

Torkwase Dyson works across the disciplines of painting, drawing, installation, and sculpture, distilling the spatial and affective residues of diasporic histories to envision new modes of environmental liberation. Dyson approaches her work spatially and architecturally, crafting the gallery environment to holistically shape the viewers’ experience. Through an improvisational process of mindful abstraction, which she calls “Black Compositional Thought,” Dyson seeks to create work that is fluid, abstract, poetic, and open to possibility.

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