Kambui Olujimi Brings a Fine Art Crowd to Lincoln Center
The legendary venue may be better known for the performing arts, but on a recent weekend in early October, the Brooklyn-based artist took over the David Rubenstein atrium to host his first art symposium. Through a series of panels and performances featuring a number of notable artist-peers, Olujimi expanded on the conversation he started with his exhibition “North Star: Meditations on Weightlessness,” in which his work explored a singular question: “What does the Black body, devoid of the ‘inescapable’ gravity of oppression, look like?”
The legendary venue may be better known for the performing arts, but on a recent weekend in early October, the Brooklyn-based artist took over the David Rubenstein atrium to host his first art symposium. Through a series of panels and performances featuring a number of notable artist-peers, Olujimi expanded on the conversation he started with his exhibition “North Star: Meditations on Weightlessness,” in which his work explored a singular question: “What does the Black body, devoid of the ‘inescapable’ gravity of oppression, look like?”