Añamarié Edwards: The Home of Joy and Warren King: Homecoming

The James Watrous Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions by artists Añamarié Edwards and Warren King steeped in themes of home, family, joy, identity, healing, migration, and community. 

Añamarié Edwards' interdisciplinary arts practice is driven by a desire to represent the complexity of the Black American experience. With her exhibition The Home of Joy, Edwards seeks to create welcoming, vibrant spaces for Black and Brown communities to facilitate healing through joy. She creates artwork to invite opinions, conversation, celebration, and open-ended expression. Edwards' brilliantly colored paintings and mixed-media sculpture embody her experience as an Afro-Latin woman in America.

Warren King explores cultural roots and the connections that shape communities. In his exhibition Homecoming, King focuses on his family’s origins in Shaoxing, China and their journey to the suburbs of Wisconsin, while seeking to understand this background in light of his own Western upbringing. King masterfully transforms cardboard into life-size figures and wall pieces that recall traditional lacquerware and woodcarving. His sophisticated sculptures often combine thematic and aesthetic elements from Chinese and Western traditions.

Join the artists and Wisconsin Academy staff on Saturday, November 15 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm to celebrate their solo exhibitions, The Home of Joy and Homecoming. Remarks begin at 6:00 pm. Free and open to the public.

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