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Tavares Strachan\u2019s book, the \u2018Encyclopedia of Invisibility,\u2019 positioned at the entrance to the artist\u2019s solo show at Marian Goodman Gallery, announces his continued efforts to bring remarkable, underappreciated biographies to light via highly engaging sculpture and installation.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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. \u00a0High 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.\u00a0 (On view through April 19th<\/sup> in Tribeca).<\/p>\n

Tavares Strachan, installation view of \u2018Starless Midnight\u2019 at Marian Goodman Gallery featuring The Birth of Exuma (Eagle Talon), ceramic, rice field installation, ceramic 72 7\/8 x 26 \u00be x 15 inches, April 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tavares Strachan\u2019s book, the \u2018Encyclopedia of Invisibility,\u2019 positioned at the entrance to the artist\u2019s solo show at Marian Goodman Gallery, announces his continued efforts to bring remarkable, underappreciated biographies to light via highly engaging sculpture and installation.\u00a0 In addition to works honoring mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson and singer\/songwriter Rosetta Tharpe, the ground floor … <\/p>\n

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