Keris Salmon
OBTAIN, 2020
Estimated Value: $1,000

Digital print on Hahnemuhle with letterpress type
19 x 13 inches
Unframed
Printer's proof
Signed, verso
Donated by the artist, courtesy of Jack Fischer Gallery.

"OBTAIN" is one image to be included in a new edition that serves as a sequel to The Architecture of Slavery, the artist's foundational work.

These works depict antebellum US and Caribbean slave dwellings, plantation houses, and resting places, paired with text taken from historical writings associated with each location.

In OBTAIN, an enslaved Barbadian woman is negotiating for her emancipation.The pastoral image is a golden sugarcane field at twilight on the former Newton Plantation in Barbados. This is the spot where an estimated 570 enslaved people are known to have been buried in unmarked graves.

About the Artist:
Keris Salmon

Keris Salmon (b. 1959, New York, NY) is a New York-based multi-media artist and award winning broadcast journalist, whose work reckons with the legacies of both personal and collective histories. She earned a BS from Stanford University, CA in 1981 and completed her graduate studies in journalism at University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 1985. She has worked as a producer for major broadcasters such as ABC, NBC, the National Geographic Channel and PBS.

Selected solo exhibitions of her artwork have taken place at Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA; as well as Minnesota Street Project and Grace Cathedral, both San Francisco, all in 2018; Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, 2014; and internationally at Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France, 2017. She has been included in group exhibitions at the International Print Center New York in 2019; Smith Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA; and Original Thinkers Festival, Telluride, CO, both in 2018; B-Complex Gallery, Atlanta, 2016 and 2017; Samsøñ Projects, Boston, 2017; as well as Arsenal Gallery, New York, 2015; Space Gallery, Portland, ME, 2014; and Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY, 2012. She has recently exhibited internationally at the Joost Van Den Bergh Gallery in London, 2018. Salmon is represented in the permanent collections of the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville; The Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips-Andover in Andover, MA.; and Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. Her first solo museum show, “The Architecture of Slavery,” recently closed at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, VA.

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