Because what I do when creating a show is identify
a discrete selection of artworks that has the quality of a museum exhibition, with the only thing preventing it from being a museum exhibition being the scope or the size of the subject.
This exhibition includes two new groups
of paintings: a
selection of self - portraits and a series depicting the Million Man March on Washington, D.C. Displayed as counterpoints in two separate galleries, the self - portraits offer
discrete views
of the artist as a private individual with a public persona, while the Million Man March
artworks — large, unstretched canvases screenprinted with mass - media images — portray arrays
of anonymous individuals brought together at an epochal moment for the African American community.