Mel Hopkins

SoulJourn : A Portrait in Community Artivism

REGEN PROJECTS, contemporary art gallery, presents Theaster Gates' exhibit "But To Be A Poor Race" 

January 14- February 25, 2017

6750 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90038 Tel 1 310 276 5424 Fax 1 310 276 7430

Theaster Gates, Urban Planner  & Conceptual Artist  whose $2 million Chicago Southside project The Arts Incubator in partnership with the University of Chicago was profiled in The New Yorker   (01/20/2014), presents an interpretative display of paintings and pieces  based on content from Jet Magazines and WEB DuBois'  hand drawn info-graphic charts depicting the economic contributions  in "Exhibit of American Negroes  displayed at the 1900 World's Fair in France.

According to Gates, this is his protest.  He says in the LA Times article,

“The show says, I am going to continue to go to work. I’m going to continue to make art. I’m going to continue to sing. I’m going to keep working as a protest.”