TERRON COOPER SORRELLS – DAMA
2022-05-23Steve Turner is pleased to present Dama, a solo exhibition of new complex and colorful paintings by Chicago-based Terron Cooper Sorrells that convey spirituality, culture and ritual as inspired by three African traditions from Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Mali. These traditions, whether in dance or oral tradition, all relate to the transition from life to the beyond and the endurance of the spirit. Sorrells uses the image of the sky to blend these histories and by conflating them, he aims to emphasize the diversity of the African American experience which brought together enslaved Africans from diverse origins to American plantations where stories, languages and traditions were mixed together. In so doing, he aims to celebrate the past and encourage a new sense of community.
Opposite – Purification, 2022
Exhibition runs through to June 25th, 2022
Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles