Devotion
Devotion
JABARI JEFFERSON
The Bishop Gallery.
Brooklyn, NY, Oct 14 - Nov 11, 2023
The Exhibit
Devotion, the New York City solo exhibition debut with the Bishop Gallery, produced by Washington, D.C. based mixed media artist Jabari Jefferson, comes on the heels of his completion of the Bishop Gallery’s year long artist-in-residence program. Thematically, the works in Devotion entangle religious iconography with the depiction of lived experiences that Jefferson has found personally inspiring to his art making journey. Together, images of anime characters and hip-hop album covers along with Renaissance art references are used by Jefferson to catapult himself into the lexicon of influential African-American artists that have come before him. Upon examination, Devotion delivers philosophical questions around what it looks like to dedicate yourself to a singular intention, and challenges what those outcomes may manifest into.
