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December 4, 2019
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Portland artist Arvie Smith, a renowned painter of the black experience, will showcase some of his new work in a solo exhibit ‘2 Up and 2
Back,’ opening on Saturday, Dec. 7 at the Disjecta Contemporary Arts Center, 8371 N. Interstate Ave.
Black Experience on Canvas
The Disjecta Contemporary Art
Center, 8371 N. Interstate Ave.,
presents “2 Up and 2 Back,” a solo
exhibition of new work by Arvie
Smith, a renowned painter of the
black experience.
Smith takes messages from pub-
lic discourse, advertising, news
media, pop culture and daily micro
assaults on marginalized people and
groups, to deliver two dimensional
master works.
The pieces reveal the normalized
and seemingly accepted inequities
born out of privilege that are designed
to interfere with truth, advancement
and release from the chains of a dom-
inant hierarchy based on skin tone.
Curated by Linda Tesner of the
Jordan D. Schnitzer Museum of Art
at Portland State University, ‘2 Up
and 2 Black,’ opens at Disjecta on
Saturday, Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. Smith
will be on hand for the opening re-
ception and artist’s talk. Disjecta
will feature the exhibit through Feb.
2, open weekends, Friday through
Sunday, from 12 p.m. to 5p.m.