Tavares Strachan’s book, the ‘Encyclopedia of Invisibility,’ positioned at the entrance to the artist’s solo show at Marian Goodman Gallery, announces his continued efforts to bring remarkable, underappreciated biographies to light via highly engaging sculpture and installation. In addition to works honoring mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson and singer/songwriter Rosetta Tharpe, the ground floor has been transformed to house a ceramic sculpture of the Bahamian musician and artist Exuma, whose work evidenced his engagement with Obeah spiritual practice. The sculpture stands in an installation of grass, shaped to form a Ghanaian Adrinka symbol indicating bravery, which evokes a rice field intended to supply sustenance across time and space. High on the walls, a text by James Baldwin exhorts readers to choose behavior that benefits the common good while a piano plays a composition inspired by British-Sierra Leonean composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. (On view through April 19th in Tribeca).
