Lionel Frazier White III: Beyond the Frame
About
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present Lionel Frazier White’s solo exhibition Beyond the Frame. Living in the wake of DC’s ongoing gentrification and the whitewashing of Black communities built here, White finds his footing between the pages of Tina M. Campt’s Image Matters (2012), Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives Beautiful Experiments (2019), and Brandi Thompson Summers’ Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City (2019). Written by Black women scholars, each text offers theoretical examinations of both historical and contemporary Black subjectivity within urban/metropolitan contexts, particularly in relation to gender and class. The body of work presented reflects White’s meditation on such critical theories, centering his mother and the re-memory of her lived experiences as a young Black woman coming of age in 1970s and 80s Washington, DC.
About the artist
Lionel Frazier White III (b. Washington, DC; lives and works in Washington, DC) is a fourth generation DC native, arts educator, and interdisciplinary conceptual artist who works in painting, drawing, wood sculpture, installation, and mixed media collage. White’s work explores themes of forced and coerced labor and its effect on family pathology, erasure, displacement, reassertion, and gentrification. White holds a Bachelors in Fine Arts from The George Washington University Corcoran School of Art and Design (2018) and is a graduate of The Duke Ellington School of the Arts High School in Washington, DC. His work has been exhibited at the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, Prince George's African American Art Museum and Cultural Center, Torpedo Factory, Rush Arts Galleries, and Area 405. White is a 2020-2022 Hamiltonian Artists Fellow, and was previously a 2019 Halcyon Arts Lab Cohort 3 Fellow-in-Residence.
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December 17, 2022–January 21, 2023
Thursday–Saturday, 11–6pm
Hamiltonian Artists
1353 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
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Artist talk
January 12, 6–7pm
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January 21, 5–7pm
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