Artist, art scholar and educator Dr. Fahamu Pecou is leading a new discourse in Atlanta on Black and brown identity through the lens of “Afrotropes,” the recurring iconography of Black aesthetics, codes and concepts.
A new solo exhibition of work by Dr. Pecou, the first in 11 years, is titled “They We Didn’t Realize We Were Seeds: We the Roses,” and it gathers paintings, drawings and sculpture that “create encounters with everyday objects,” recontextualized.
Dr. Pecou joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes to discuss the exhibition, on view at Johnson Lowe Gallery through Nov. 23.
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