On the occasion of Tony Lewis: Abstract Slavery, the Chicago-based artist's first New York solo exhibition, Olney Gleason will host a conversation between Lewis and curator Ellen Tani at the gallery. The pair will discuss the three interrelated bodies of work on view in Lewis's exhibition – Word Search, Gregg Shorthand, and White Drawings – which are unified by a sustained investigation of the Atlantic slave trade through the material and conceptual possibilities of drawing. They will also discuss Lewis’s immersive Floor Drawings, installed in the gallery and made by manually rubbing graphite powder on large expanses of paper.
The program takes place on Wednesday, March 13 at 509 West 27th Street, New York. Doors will open at 5pm, and the conversation will begin promptly at 5:30. Attendance is free. Please RSVP to rsvp@olneygleason.com.
