Tangible Possibilities

November 12 — December 11, 2022
No Place Gallery, Columbus OH

Featuring Artists: Kearra Amaya Gopee and Shala Miller

This exhibition creates a space of collaboration between Shala Miller and Kearra Amaya Gopee to showcase both artists’ expansive works across print media, photo and installation.

TANGIBLE POSSIBILITIES is the meeting place of Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva’s concept of ‘implicancy’ and Noami Beckwith’s theory of “errant forms”. Dr. Silva’s pursuit in constructing a “material approach to the aesthetic”, recenters the body not as an instrument of knowledge, but as a site of contact that allows for implicancy; an existence of ‘both entanglement and contradiction rather than unity’. Beckwith’s errant forms calls to the works of black artists that oftentimes go unnoticed due to their abstracted approaches to representation and forms. By that, black expression for oneself or for another is commonly subjected to how (or the perception) it appears, rather than what (the materiality) is being expressed.

It is the tangible possibilities in the errant form - the moments where black expression can be felt, no matter how it is perceived, is the path this exhibition takes.