Where: Jepson Center for the Arts
Breakout! is a site-specific installation by local artist Amiri Geuka Farris (American, B. 1974) for the 2020 iteration of Telfair Museums’ annual Boxed In/Break Out project, which involves activating windows at the Jepson Center that face Barnard Street. Farris has created five large-scale assemblages that layer and juxtapose images of present-day Savannah inhabitants with references to Gullah traditions and African American history and narrative. The works are made from various recycled and found materials including boxes and paper bags. Combining these reworked objects with his unique printmaking process, Farris blurs the boundaries between abstraction and representation, sculpture and printmaking, and contemporary and traditional. Farris writes of his own artistic practice, “I like to see artwork that will take one medium and use it to do something else. Artwork that is bold, expressive, and completely different.” In addition to being inspired by the materials around him to create dynamic and colorful pieces, Farris also looks to his own life as he creates works that are full of intimate personal experiences and examinations of subjects that are compelling to him, including issues surrounding diaspora, culture, memory, and perception.
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