Exploring the relationship between history, memory and myth, this solo exhibition will present the artwork of multidisciplinary artist La Vaughn Belle as she expands on Black feminist writer Audre Lorde’s concept of biomythography, in which myth and fiction function to frame past, present and future selves. Curated by Dr. Erica Moiah James, art historian, curator and assistant professor at The University of Miami. Her research and writing centers on indigenous, modern and contemporary art of the Caribbean and the African Diaspora. Before arriving in Miami, she was the founding director and chief curator of the National Gallery of The Bahamas (2003-2011); a jointly appointed assistant professor in the departments of the History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale University and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Africa American Studies at Yale University. Dr. James is a contributing essayist in the forthcoming catalogue publication, "La Vaughn Belle; Being of Myth and Memory."

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