penumbras: sacred geometries

Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA) is excited to welcome visiting cultural practitioner william cordova as he presents the exhibition penumbras: sacred geometries, on view in the JXTA Gallery March 19 – April 25, 2020. penumbras is focused on two South Florida artists, Yanira Collado (Dominican Republic) and Onajide Shabaka (US). Their practices incorporate the ideology of sacred geometries to form structures and landscape, and which allude to the body and consciousness.  Like artists Nasreen Mohamedi, Rammellzee and Dr. John Biggers, both Collado and Shabaka’s works are deeply rooted in mathematic principles that create and relate the intersectional points that bond all human beings.

Yanira Collado and Onajide Shabaka will create a site-specific installation at the JXTA Gallery. Onajide Shabaka is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes storytelling through short narrative films and expansive installations which draw organic materials from the natural world. Yanira Collado's work is rooted in the synthesis of African fractals, slave quilts, and geometric concepts. Her work produces and highlights the complexity of abstraction as a non-western narrative rooted in African tradition.

"to make a place to retain the metaphysical knowledge which the person had mastered in his lifetime” 

― Robert Lawlor (Sacred Geometry: Philosophy & Practice)

Onajide Shabaka / installation, video, drawing, shrines
Yanira Collado / installation drawing, painting, sculpture
 

Gallery Hours & Location: Monday–Thursday 10:00 a.m. –4:00 p.m.; 2007 Emerson Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411
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Image Credit: Onajide Shabaka, archipelagic journey (n.1), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.