Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, January 27, 6-8pm

Lecture by Michi Meko: Wednesday, January 25, 12:30pm N150

Michi Meko is an Atlanta based artist who works in a variety of media, ranging from installation, painting, video, sound, and drawing. Throughout his various platforms, his work engages contradictions and paradoxes that he uncovers through examining his personal history, African American folk traditions, and narratives that confront or circumvent established narratives. As Meko describes his process: “I’m sure people think I’m scattered because I don’t work in a familiar series [or constant medium], but if one is really into the narratives I’m working within then it’s an easy funk groove to follow.”

In One Last Smile Before the Undertorw, Meko presents a new body of work that acts as navigation maps and movements to convey narratives based in the personal and historic. Mashing up iconography and remixing content to establish new hybridized identities, Meko endows ordinary and rejected objects with spiritual powers, alluding to conditions both physical and psychological. 

Michi Meko was born in Alabama in 1974. Meko has exhibited widely throughout the Southeast, is represented by Alan Avery Art Company in Atlanta, and has work in the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art.

 

Gallery
Margie E. West Gallery
Exhibition Duration
January 26, 2017 - February 24, 2017