Walter Price, Julie Mehretu, and Amy Sillman on the Works They Made in Honor of Toni Morrison for a New Exhibition on the Author

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On the occasion of a new exhibition highlighting Toni Morisson, we spoke to artists Walter Price, Julie Mehretu, and Amy Sillman about their relationship to the late author's work.

I made the painting for this show specifically in response to re-readingduring the late spring weeks of quarantine, just after Hilton approached me about the project. It is a book that goes back to the origin of the making of this country and the various struggles and violences in that endeavor. We were in the midst of a wildly out-of-control pandemic with a criminally absent and vacant leader at the helm of the most powerful nation of the world.

The underpainting of this piece was created from a Rorschach of the inverse of an image from the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. It’s a blurred image that creates spectral forms that play with the subliminal and the visceral haunting and fear being regurgitated by white supremacy, and generated by the years of the Trump administration.

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