A panel discussion with Matt Morris, manuel arturo abreu, and bart fitzgerald. Presented with the support of Reed College's Art Department and The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Gallery.
Presented in conjunction with Matt Morris’s exhibition A Magician, a Soldier, and Two Figures Watching a Burning Skull at Cherry & Lucic, this panel discussion addresses the intersections of queerness, race and religion through the lenses of artistic practices and religious study. Three panelists will engage their artistic and research practices as a means to interweave the diasporic religious and racial histories of western colonialism with the contemporary realities of queer identity. Each of the panelists draws from a background in religious education as well as fine arts and academic practices, embodying an intersectional approach to identity theory and fine arts.
Matt Morris is a fine artist and lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who teaches in the Sculpture as well as the Painting and Drawing departments. His exhibition at Cherry & Lucic engages the work of Tiepolo as a figure of Rococo queer extravagance within the globalizing reality of Christian theology. Presented alongside Morris’s own monochromes, this exhibition and his contribution to this panel addresses the contemporary form of queer engagement as reflected through a history of multi-form expression and re-contextualizaiton of artworks.
manuel arturo abreu is a artist, poet and critic from the Bronx, who received their BA in linguistics from Reed College in 2014. Raised Pentecostal, they came out as atheist to their parents at age 10. Their contribution to the panel’s conversation revolves around their recent return to religion as a neophyte of Dominican vodou and what it means to deal with the trauma of colonial Chrisitianity as a new practitioner of a religion that syncretizes Dahomeyan, Haitian, Catholic, and Dominican practice.
bart fitzgerald is a Portland native whose work interrogates the prophetic, justice work, and liberation theology. Bart makes work as a visual artist, writer, and curator of vibrant life for black folks throughout Portland and now New York City. Trained in the King James Bible and outstanding Pentecostalist preaching in the age of unabashed black identity, they express themself with the dynamism and complicated tactics of the hip hop generation while communicating with the clarity and imagery of the foremost Christian preachers.
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