Louis Cameron: Now is the Time
2024 | Louis Cameron: Now is The Time features a body of work that explores the conversation on gun violence within Hip Hop music.
Louis Cameron: Now is the Time
October 22 - December 14, 2024
Cameron’s text-based graphics appear to offer simple black backgrounds with white text. However, each of the typefaces has stories embedded within them. Similar to words and works of art, fonts serve as markers of history, culture, and social events. Each text work brings forth a portal into the past as a manner of addressing the present.
Each piece unfolds as if a puzzle, some tongue in cheek, some deeply serious and some celebratory. They serve as an invitation by the artist to the visitor to be curious and research the genealogy of the words, the song lyrics, and the fonts to discover the historic achievements and the significant moments in Black culture that they reference.
Topics include hip-hop culture, the civil rights movement, racism, gun violence, and police brutality. The exhibition title speaks to a lesser known part of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream Speech, when he urges his audience to seize the moment and act as he proclaims: “It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.”
Funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts.