RACIALITY

August 4, 2015

For Immediate Release:

Raciality

August 14 - September 12, 2015

Opening Reception: Friday, August 14, 2015, 6-8 with a Panel Discussion* commencing at 6:30 pm

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 1-7 pm and Sunday 1-5 pm

onetwentyeight is excited to present Raciality.

What is the racial reality of life today?

It does seem to be a different experience if you’re black rather than white in this country.

It does seem this way.

But we are just one race - The Human Race.

We speak as if we are all different races - black, white, red, yellow, brown. Yet, these are mostly social constructs, artificial creations that keep us divided.

What if we were among a race of alien beings(“uchujin”)? What is some day we find ourselves in touch with beings from different universes and different realities?

How would we explain ourselves?

First, we would identify as human, no?

Regardless of the color of our skin.

And the reason it is so hard for many to do that today?

Raciality.

Todd Ayoung - Orin Buck - Christopher Craig - Cheryl Edwards - David Fenn

David Higginbotham  & Aya Kawano - David Hammons - Gerald Jackson   

Helmut Krackie - Ayakoh F. Leonart - Jennifer Mack - Al Mack - Ptah Miller   

Kazuko Miyamoto - NeNe - Miguelangel Ruiz - Sandy Strauss -  K. Saito - Glen Sacks  

Gordon Sasaki - Angela Valeria - Ricard Woo - Susan Yung - Bobby Watlington

*Panelists will include Yarrow Dunham, Professor - Department of Psychology, Yale, CT, Cheryl Edwards, Artist, Washington D.C., David Higginbotham, Artist, NYC, and Robert Lee, Exec. Director/Curator, Asian American Arts Centre, NYC.