1275 Minnesota St /
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Jenkins Johnson Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Dewey Crumpler's work titled In Space Time.
In Space Time represents a component of a four-part, 30-year exploration of an object. The form is an inner expression of the Hoodie Figures that derived from Crumpler’s original form of a Slave Collar. All of Dewey Crumpler’s series from the past 30 years thematically join to examine how the Slave Collar can hold the shape of the accompanying memories and history of the object - the shadow of the collar representing cyclical time. For Crumpler, the void within the collar is a site of potentiality. Memories surrounding Blackness shapeshift through space and time. By using abstraction and repetition, Crumpler illustrates the continuity of these symbolic forms. Crumpler describes the idea of void within the collar forms as Blackness, but in Blackness is light, all colors–the form is metaphysical. There is an energy in the darkness, and Crumpler's work reveals the potentiality of what was once seen as void.