“Confronting Truths: Wake Up!,” Ti-Rock Moore’s new solo exhibit at Gallery Guichard in Bronzeville, was intended to start a conversation about racism in America. Instead it’s started a controversy.
Andre Guichard, one of the principals of Gallery Guichard, says the gallery, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary, focuses on the art of the African diaspora, and that race has always been part of the conversation. While he and his business partner Stephen Mitchell did expect some controversy surrounding the exhibit because of its subject matter, they were taken aback by viewers taking issue with Moore’s being Caucasian.
McSpadden herself attended a private showing of the exhibit the evening before the July 10 reception, where according to the Guardian, Black Angel was covered up, at her request, for the duration of her visit.
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