Moderated by Lowery Stokes Sims, with Pamela Franks, Serubiri Moses, Smooth Nzewi, and Dawit L. Petros

“A Conscious Synchretizer”: A Conversation About Color, Form, and Life in the Work of Ficre Ghebreyesus

In his application for admission to the Yale School of Art in 2000, Ficre Ghebreyesus described himself as “a conscious synchretizer.” It is an apt description that reflects the complexities of his life as an artist, refugee and migrant, and community presence, whose artwork manifested a fluid engagement of abstraction and figuration, as well as Western and African modalities. This conversation will bring together artist Dawit L. Petros, curator, editor, and scholar Serubiri Moses, curator Smooth Nzewi, and museum director Pamela Franks to discuss transnational perspectives in contemporary art, the critical context for Ghebreyesus’s art globally, the situation of art by contemporary Africans in museum contexts, and a first person perspective on the impact of Ghebreyesus’s work in the milieu of New Haven. This event has been organized by curator and art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, who will also moderate the conversation.

Time: 2:00 pm EST

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