Set deep
in the Mississippi Delta, it's the epic story of two families, one white, the other black, who've each sown hope among
fields too sodden to be much use — and though the sheer scope of the material overwhelms «Pariah» director Dee Rees
at times, she finds shoots of optimism among the mire that couldn't be more welcome
at a
moment when the country seems more divided than ever.
The
moment of truth came
in a windowless basement laboratory on January 23, 1997,
at around 2 or 3 a.m. «JD and I put a microcapsule
in between two copper electrodes on a slide, put it under a microscope, and for the first
time, against conventional wisdom, proved that you could move a particle inside a microcapsule with an external electric
field,» Comiskey wrote.
2017 — LOG
at LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC, curated by Maria Britton — AWKWARD
MOMENTS, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY 2015 — SACRED PLACES, Smithy Center for the Arts, Cooperstown, NY 2014 — MEMENTO MORI,
Field Projects, New York, curated by Deborah Brown — CROWD, curated by Andrea Brown for The Outsider's Studio Collective, Liberty, NY 2013 — NYFA@GOVERNORS, curated by New York Foundation For The Arts for Governor's Island Art Fair, New York 2012 — DAY JOB, curated by Nina Katchadourian, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, and Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2011 — HEAD CASE, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, curated by Laurel Farrin — 30: A BROOKLYN SALON, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer — CHAIN LETTER, Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA — NEXT Art Fair, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart, Chicago 2010 — DAY JOB, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, curated by Nina Katchadourian 2009 — ONCE UPON A
TIME AND NOW, Evanston Art Center, IL — THE HAIRY WHO AND IMAGIST LEGACY
IN CONTEMPORARY ART,
at ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, curated by Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago — ART CHICAGO, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart (Also 2006, 2007, 2008) 2007 — THE MISSISSIPPI STORY, Mississippi Museum of Art 2006/7 — RAGDALE, Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Margaret Hawkins 2006 — SALTONSTALL: THE FIRST TEN YEARS, curated by Andrea Inselmann Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY — RISD BIENNIAL, Exit Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr — ARTLA, Linda Warren Gallery Booth, Santa Monica Civic Center, CA — ART ADORED: Icons from the Permanent Collection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson