About the Exhibition
Hyphen Gallery and Christina Hahn present: Summer Reunion, a group show guest-curated by Dejion Duncan (aka BASEFORYOURFACE). This exhibition features emerging and established artists of color based in North Texas across practices of photography, collage, soft sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, and painting. Summer Reunion is an unfiltered, untranslated recollection of summer nostalgia: of the familial relations and cross-cultural connections formed in a time and place of unspoken freedom.
Opening Reception: June 13th, 7-10 PM.
From June 13th to July 19th, Hyphen Space offers a window into the Dallas art scene through Dejion Duncan’s eyes. Co-Curated by Dejion Duncan and Christina Hahn.
Featured Artists: Charles Gray, SooMi Han, Dakari Butler, Marcos Chavez, Hamdi Osman, Grace Nicole, Jose Moreno, Willie Dave, Dejion Duncan, and Christina Hahn.
Curatorial Statement
Duncan’s curatorial approach is a practice in capturing the simple existence of artists of color. Refusing to conform nor contort, Duncan curates shows which demand the audience to engage with a raw, untranslated manifestation of the experiences of North Texans of color. Duncan seeks to overwhelm his audience with unfiltered culture, creating connection and empathy.
Harmoniously, Hahn’s curatorial practice is a hyperlocal aperture focused on artists of color based in North Texas to develop a multivocal, intersectional perspective of Dallas’ art scene. Through her work at Hyphen Gallery in Hyphen Space, Hahn intentionally builds across color lines to bring artists of color to the forefront, receiving their credit as the tastemakers of Dallas’ culture.
An extension of his previous curatorial work, “When Eye Learned to See Color,” Duncan and Hahn use summer as a lens through which viewers are transported into the tender memories of family, cross-cultural connection, and carefree existence of people of color. Through their group exhibition, Duncan urges viewers to “keep the family close, ‘cause we’re all we got.”
Summer Reunion is a collection giving thanks and honoring a place of solace in a season in which it seemed like we had the most freedom.