Jen Torwudzo-Stroh Archives - Sixty Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org.dream.website/byline/jen-torwudzo-stroh/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:09:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-Sixty_Logo_Icon_Green-32x32.png Jen Torwudzo-Stroh Archives - Sixty Inches From Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org.dream.website/byline/jen-torwudzo-stroh/ 32 32 Identity in the Abstract: Harriet Watson on Artistic Expression https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/identity-in-the-abstract-harriet-watson-on-artistic-expression/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:07:03 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=67539 In Indianapolis, an early career artist considers her role as an artist and all the elements, within and around her, that affect her process.

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]]> Review: A Love Supreme at Elmhurst Art Museum https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-i-a-love-supreme-i-at-elmhurst-art-museum/ Tue, 07 May 2024 15:38:38 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=61132 Jen Torwudzo-Stroh reviews the blend of classic jazz and modern Black aesthetics in the dual A Love Supreme exhibitions at Elmhurst Art Museum and the McCormick House.

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]]> CONDUIT: Reflections https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/conduit-reflections/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:15:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=55693 After a gathering of Midwestern Black culture workers and archivists, Jen Torwudzo-Stroh reflects on the necessity of embodying archives and building out the margins.

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]]> Artistic Meditation: Bryana Bibbs Explores Personal Narrative Through the Intersection of Weaving and Painting https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/artistic-meditation-bryana-bibbs-explores-personal-narrative-through-the-intersection-of-weaving-and-painting/ Wed, 12 Apr 2023 01:18:51 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=54529 The work in the exhibition Numb at Oliva Gallery showcases a unique fusion of weaving and painting, depicting the artist's personal journey.

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]]> Review of We. The Culture: Works by The Eighteen Art Collective at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-of-we-the-culture-works-by-the-eighteen-art-collective-at-the-indianapolis-museum-of-art-at-newfields/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:30:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=52233 The exhibit at Newfields highlights a collective with tremendous talents, though it can still feel like an attempt to rectify the institution's racist past.

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]]> Washington Park Camera Club Celebrates Olmsted 200: South Park Then & Now https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/washington-park-camera-club-celebrates-olmsted-200-south-park-then-now/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 20:44:22 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=51117 The Washington Park Camera Club revisits the history of Jackson Park, Washington Park, and Midway Plaisance in a contemporary context with a series of walking tours and photo essays.

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]]> Building a Home for Muses: An Interview with Art Preserve Curator Laura Bickford on Ray Yoshida’s Collections https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/building-a-home-for-muses-an-interview-with-art-preserve-curator-laura-bickford-on-ray-yoshidas-collections/ Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=49681 Jen Torwudzo-Stroh talks to Art Preserve curator Laura Bickford about the late Ray Yoshida's object-collecting as an expressive art in its own right and the connections of everyday objects.

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]]> Social Art and Performing Art Criticism: Lori Waxman at Weinberg/Newton Gallery https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/social-art-and-performing-art-criticism-lori-waxman-at-weinberg-newton-gallery/ Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:20:35 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=49005 With her project “60 wrd/min art critic”, Lori Waxman shows us how the niche relationship between artist and critic can be used to bolster social ties in the greater community outside of the insular art world.

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]]> Review: FEMME at FLXST Contemporary https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-femme-at-flxst-contemporary/ Tue, 17 May 2022 20:46:44 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=48468 The six artists in FEMME at FLXST Contemporary demonstrate the divine connection that holds the stories of femmes in small, intimate, and bold ways.

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]]> The Power of Black Joy, an interview with artist Ariel Dannielle https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-power-of-black-joy-an-interview-with-artist-ariel-dannielle/ Tue, 28 Dec 2021 16:33:08 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=45683 The exhibition We Outside at Monique Meloche Gallery is an ode to Black women, the ones who start the trends with their multicolored hair, laid edges, and stiletto nails, the modern party girl, and survivor of a pandemic.

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]]> A Review of Soft Power, Hard Margins at table https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/a-review-of-soft-power-hard-margins-at-table/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:49:37 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=44349 Attempting to comprehend all of the messages in the work made me feel like an art history student again, looking at an image and desperately trying to grasp the meaning or understand what my professor was saying.

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]]> Review: Just Above My Wall, (To The Right) at South Side Community Art Center https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-just-above-my-wall-to-the-right-at-south-side-community-art-center/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=43580 In the discussions of the art world, it’s often lost on us how deeply personal the act of viewing and acquiring art actually is. We’re dazzled by headlines featuring big names and nearly incomprehensible amounts of money. It obscures the reality that in its purest form, buying art is about beautifying our intimate spaces and private moments.

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]]> Review of Hurvin Anderson: Anywhere but Nowhere https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-hurvin-anderson-anywhere-but-nowhere/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=42287 British-born Jamaican artist Hurvin Anderson explores the duality of his country as well as his identity in the exhibition Anywhere but Nowhere at The Arts Club of Chicago.

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]]> Black Artists Deserve Better: Thornton Dial at the IMA https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/black-artists-deserve-better-thornton-dial-at-the-ima/ Fri, 28 May 2021 16:50:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=42269 Regarding the state of Indiana, I would say that it benefits from the perception crafted in our history classes that racism only exists in the south, and the northern states…

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]]> Review: How Far Between and Back at Monique Meloche https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-how-fare-between-and-back-at-monique-meloche/ Sat, 08 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=41946 Brittney Leeanne Williams eschews references to traditional depictions of the human form in How Far Between and Back at Monique Meloche Gallery.

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]]> Review: Cristal Sabbagh: OOPS! POW! SURPRISE! at Glass Curtain Gallery https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-cristal-sabbagh-oops-pow-surprise-at-glass-curtain-gallery/ Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:30:32 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=41719 Cristal Sabbagh explores memorials, death, ancestral ties, and pop culture with her show OOPS! POW! SURPRISE! at Glass Curtain Gallery.

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]]> Review of Sergio Lucena: “The Blue that embraces me…” at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/review-of-sergio-lucena-the-blue-that-embraces-me-at-mariane-ibrahim-gallery/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=41309 Any other time, it would go without saying, but in 2021, it’s worth mentioning that art is best seen in person. As we inch toward a return to normalcy, we…

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]]> Not All Fair: The Black Female Nude in Art https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/not-all-fair-the-black-female-nude-in-art/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/?p=41111 In Greek mythology, Andromeda was a princess like many before her, achingly beautiful, conspicuously silent, and waiting to be rescued. In her young life, her beauty had been her foil;…

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