Alexandria Smith: Monuments to an Effigy

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Apr 7 2019 - Aug 18 2019

Queens Museum

New York City, NY

Alexandria Smith’s exhibition, Monuments to an Effigy, takes the history of the A.M.E. Church and The Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground as a departure point for a new collage, sculpture, and sound installation. Smith will continue her ongoing exploration of narrative, memory, and myth through the lens of the Black female form and psyche. 

At Queens Museum, Smith’s practice of abstracting and deconstructing images of the body responds to the untold narrative of the Bunn family, whose male family names appear on the only remaining gravestones at the Flushing Burial Ground, but whose female voices have been historically silenced.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.          

  • Various Media
  • American
  • Contemporary
  • Alexandria Smith

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