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NOW IS THE TIME

NOW IS THE TIME is a exhibition of text-based works presented at Emerson Contemporary in Boston that form a loose narrative around police brutality and mourning. The first room starts off with works A Spade, 2024 and INCIDENT, 2024. A Spade, based on the racial slur "spade", evokes the presence of an African American while INCIDENT resembles a line of police tape. In the next room Sound of da Police (version 2), 2024  and BO! BO! BO!, 2023 from the Hip Hop Onomatopoeia series are presented. NOW!, 2017 a work that samples its text graphically from a poster from the 1963 March Washington for Jobs and Freedom is in the room also.  They Reminisce Over You - T.R.O.Y., 2024 follows which is a billboard with a poem that is created from the titles of songs sampled to create the work's title song. The final room exhibits  the I AM... portfolio, a group of posters created by men of African descent in the United States commenting on the violence against Black men published in 2015. The exhibition starts with the set up to confrontation to mournful end.

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