On October 22, 2020, TK Smith joined St. Olaf College, virtually, to give his lecture, Abstraction as a State of Being: Identity, Fragmented Archives, and the Photographs of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun. The lecture expanded upon his essay on McCormick and Calhoun’s photographs, which accompanied the Flaten Art Museum exhibition We No Longer Consider Them Damaged. TK’s talk considered abstraction as a longstanding strategy among the Black community.
TK Smith is a Philadelphia based writer, art critic, curator, and a PhD candidate in the American Civilization Program at the University of Delaware. Smith received his MA in American Studies and his BA in English and African American Studies from Saint Louis University. Smith’s research interests lie in American art, material culture, and the built environment. Smith most recently curated Looming Chaos at the Zuckerman Museum of Art as an inaugural Tina Dunkley Fellow at Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. The 2020 exhibition featured the fiber abstractions of Atlanta based artist Zipporah Camille Thompson. His writing has been published in Art Papers, Burnaway, and ARTS ATL.
Thank you, TK, for contributing to our exhibition, visiting our classes, and giving this insightful lecture.
Click here to watch the archived lecture.
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