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NOEL ANDERSON: BLAK ORIGIN MOMENTHunter Museum of American Art / 10 Bluff View Ave. October 11, 2019 - January 12, 2020

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS- A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Noel Anderson is known for his explorations into the evolving makeup of black male identity through the me­dium of textiles. Using found imagery from various media and archives, including television and magazine, Anderson adds, subtracts, manipulates and distorts the original pictures, which are then woven into tapestries. Anderson then re-works each tapestry, distressing, dying and sometimes dissolving the image until it is only partially legible. This literal blurring of the object metaphorically h...