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Over the years, G. Farrel Kellum has
made his imprint on us. With Black and White austere simplicity racing
to the foreground of lines and shapes and spaces, he details recent action,
retells forgotten stories, or reflects on experiences yet to be tapped.
He has shown us a world inlaid with complex exhaustive detail again in
Black and White sprinkled with some color that reflects a duality of complexity
and simplicity.
An amalgam of colors, shapes, and perspectives, the colors add depth to
shape perspective, while the images and shapes of symbols create a complex
statement about modern life. In his newest work, G. Farrel Kellum casts
his unique vision on the contemporary world of Hip Hop culture. He employs
traditional African symbols and signs in an abstract exposition of Hip
Hop artifacts. The historical contemporary mix acts simultaneously on
the senses, while the abstraction continues to preserve the future aspect
of his work.
There is also the Digital Divide Series, which he is exploring during
this same period. The Digital Divide series addresses the phenomenon of
freedom of expression being dashed against the backdrop of daily reality
in binary, as well as the exclusion of traditional artistic spiritual
unity by a commodity driven society. These construction pieces immediately
present you with a duality of shapes and colors. The symbols that are
representative of the bottom line surround those that represent the unconscious
African cultural continuum, which only have a metaphysical translation.
Yet these pieces speak to the encroachment of each reality upon the other.
Again, G. Farrel Kellum has managed to challenge our senses, and at the
same time provoke us to deeper introspection. The vision as well as the
conversation is satisfying and complete.
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