08/13/2025
Ramekon O’Arwisters: SCHISM
Exhibition Dates: 13 September – 18 October
🗓 Reception for the artist: Saturday, September 13th, 3:00 – 5:30 pm
🗓 SPECIAL EVENT: Thursday, September 18th from 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
On the occasion of Ramekon O’Arwisters’ exhibition SCHISM, PSG extends a warm invitation to an evening with our special guest Key Jo Lee, Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), who will be in conversation with artist Ramekon O’Arwisters. We’re also thrilled to welcome Paul Henderson, an art collector and cultural strategist, as our co-host, who will provide introductions for the speakers. RSVP for seating!
In Conversation:
Key Jo Lee leads a conversation with Ramekon O’Arwisters! Introductions by Paul Henderson
SCHISM, by definition, is a fracture, division, disharmony in beliefs or rules by which we live and understand relationships, politics, religion, community. The choice of SCHISM as a title is not so much a reflection of discord within Ramekon O’Arwisters but an acknowledgement of chaotic shifts and swings in predictability and safety. Targeting, overreach, and coded responses are not new to Black Americans; finding ways to navigate being Black and Q***r between the hazards is the theme of this upcoming exhibition, a watery ground of coded abstraction. On view in the exhibition will be the artists’ iconic bound leather sculpture, Black on Black; tapestries from the Bound in Black series; selections from their B&W self-portraits; and new textile sculptures!
