Torkwase Dyson is part of a growing number of contemporary artists to imbue geometric abstraction with a sociopolitical dimension. Geometry is never neutral; the formal geometry in a painting reflects ...
When visitors walk into Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the first thing that will catch their eyes is Dyson’s painting “A Place Called Dark Black (Bird and Lava).” ...
Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better than the Real Thing (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 20–August 11, 2024). Torkwase Dyson ...
In this lecture Torkwase Dyson will present her working theory, Black Compositional Thought, and the experimental drawing conditions that fuel her practice. She will also discuss the development of ...
Torkwase Dyson thinks a lot about shapes. How, for example, the contours of memory change over time. Or how Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline shifts with rising tides and eroding dunes. She thinks too ...
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