Adia Millett: You Will Be Remembered

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Galerie du Monde will be presenting Adia Millett’s second solo exhibition in Asia! Curated by Jacqueline Francis, the paintings featured in “You Will Be Remembered.” project the power of mid-20th century jazz recordings into the future. Millett listened to the selected music over days and weeks. Subsequently, she created a body of buoyant abstract paintings which fully participate in the encounter between jazz and writing inspired by it. In effect, Millett hosted a listening party across time and space.

Viewers will find many of Millett’s long-favored geometries and signs in her paintings – pyramids, triangles, prisms, arrows, that seem stacked, woven, and otherwise organized in close juxtapositions. Freshly considered symbols – rainbow colored arches, and tactics – one-point perspective are here as well. What is also evident is her sustained interest, study, and admiration of quiltmaking techniques, stained glass constructions, and thoughtful design patterns.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Adia Millett received a BFA from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. In 2001, she moved to New York for the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, followed by a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She lived and worked in New York for a decade, exhibiting in high-profile group shows among them “Freestyle” (Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001), “Living Units” (Triple Candie, 2003), “Black President” (The New Museum, 2003), and “Greater New York” (Museum of Modern Art PS1, 2005), and recently in “Where is Here” (Museum of African Diaspora, 2017), and “Black Refractions” (Studio Museum in Harlem, 2019).

Recent solo exhibitions include "You Will Be Remembered." (Galerie du Monde, 2022); "A Force of Nature" (di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, United States, 2022); “A Matter of Time” (Galerie du Monde, 2020); “Breaking Patterns” (California African American Museum, United States, 2019); and “The Privilege to Breathe” (San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, United States, 2019).