Thursday January 11, 7pm ET
Jahi Kijo Lendor: Artist Talk and Open Late (6-8pm)
In Person & Live-streamed
Free admission
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Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk with Jahi Kijo Lendor in connection with his current solo exhibition at the gallery “Hymns from Beyond the Buttermilk,” which will be open late for the event and remain on view through January 27th. Lendor will be joined by Microscope co-directors Elle Burchill and Andrea Monti, followed by a Q&A with the in-person and online audiences.
The discussion will center around the installations and other mixed media works by Lendor included in the exhibition, which together confront issues of “culture, class, collective memory, identity, and erasure,” as well as the artist’s broader practice. The “humble materials” used — which have been found, collected and cared for — by the Black/Dominican American artist are assembled and transformed in ways that subtly reveal the works’ conceptual underpinning and social critique.
The in-person event will also be live-streamed on this page.
“Hymns from Beyond the Buttermilk” continues through January 27th, 2024. More information about the exhibition can by found HERE.
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Jahi Kijo Lendor (b.1991, Brooklyn, NY) is a Black-Dominican American, NY/NJ-based artist whose work focuses on reflecting on how he sees life and his environment, which translates to a multi-melaninated reality of the Black experience. His work has been exhibited in “Black Biennial” at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI and at the RISD MFA Painting show “Rota Fortunae” at Field Projects in New York, among others. Lendor graduated with a BFA and a BA from Rutgers University, New Jersey in 2019. He was a Society of Presidential Fellows recipient at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI, where he received his MFA in Painting in 2023.