Dyson's Work Explores Ecology, Infrastructure and Architecture
Examining human geography and the history of Black spatial liberation strategies, Torkwase Dyson’s abstract works grapple with the ways in which space is perceived, imagined and negotiated particularly by black and brown bodies. Dyson has distilled a vocabulary of poetic forms to address the spaciousness of freedom and question what type of climates are born out of world building.
She describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure and architecture.
Dyson will be speaking at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis on Feb. 27. at 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Dyson's work was recently exhibited in the 2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing and in a solo presentation at the Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the winter quarter spotlight artist in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies.
The talk is organized by The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program, and co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.
The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies is an academic program in the Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis. Visiting artists engage with students at the undergraduate and graduate levels through seminars, critiques, and public lectures in residencies that are focused on teaching. Each academic year, the program supports two visiting professors in quarter-long residencies and three “spotlight” artists in weeklong residencies.
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