Blum & Poe now represents Los Angeles–based artist Umar Rashid and the estate of Thornton Dial. Rashid’s first solo exhibition at the gallery is currently on view at its Los Angeles location.
Los Angeles inaugurates a series of cultural events in its "streets". Among the artists, there is also Umar Rashid.
Umar Rashid’s fictional Colonial Era universe, 18 years in the making, reveals its latest chapter in Washington, D.C. with Rashid wrapping up his tenure as the inaugural artist of the Capital Artist Residency.
The exhibition "Culinarialism" specifically focuses on class dynamics of food while poignantly acknowledging the DC area’s problematic history as an epicenter of inhumane international trade practices.
The paintings of the Los Angeles-based artist, historian, poet and musician, also known as Frohawk TwoFeathers, reconfigure colonial and imperial histories. His characters walk the same earth we do, and are beholden the same histories, but their reality is a hyper-saturated, detailed explosion of colonial reimagining that spans a multi-layered matrix of time and geography.
The artists of the Fate of Empires exhibition (Andrew Gilbert, Umar Rashid and the duo Jarmila Mitrikovà & Dàvid Demjanovič) seem to enjoy playing with the historical materials, subverting the assumptions.
In the double exhibition empires and colonial policies, wars, traditions and rituals are analyzed and reinterpreted by the three young artists.
The exhibition *The Fate of Empires*, visible from Thursday 4 April, is a result of African and Indian colonial battles, references to the Habsburgs and totalitarian regimes.
The works of the artists, exhibited between the Studio d'Arte Raffaelli and Cellar Contemporary, create a narrative rich of cultural references.
On Thursday 4 April, we inaugurated, together with the Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, the exhibition "The Fate of Empires" which is told by Exibart through an interview with Giordano Raffaelli, Davide Raffaelli and Camilla Nacci.
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