"Tall Tales" and Other Truths

Drawing Rooms Presents

"Tall Tales" and Other Truths. This exhibition in our Jersey City art-space, features artists whose work draws deeply from personal ancestry and cultural history. Artists: Aliza Augustine, Adrienne Wheeler, Francis Crisafio, Michael Pribich, Noelle Lorraine Williams and Willie Cole.

Visual artists speak through images, sounds and experiences which often tell stories, either directly or indirectly. Stories, or narratives, aka Narrative Art, include made-up stories based in fantasy or imagined realities, stories composed of disparate elements used to create an inferred narrative, or stories which speak truth, either personally for the artist, or for people and/or issues the artist feels strongly resonates with them. Some artists choose to make this truth-work because they feel compelled to understand the issue better for themselves. Others do so to bring the issue out of the darkness and into the light, in the hope of helping to create awareness.

The artists in this show tell stories which personally relate to their ancestry, culture and community. These stories may involve secrets long kept unknown or unseen by others, whether nefarious or not, or things many people of one culture may not know about another person's culture, or things people may not want others to know