A WINDOW TO EUROPE: THROUGH ART & LITERATURE
FEATURING LIONEL FRAZIER WHITE III
January 7 - 23, 2022
Plain Sight DC and the EU National Institutes of Culture in Washington, DC present A Window to Europe: Through Literature and Art, a series of short exhibitions featuring eleven visual artists from the Washington, DC region who will create work in response to eleven books by European writers, as part of the 2021 Europe Readr project. In this exhibition, Lionel Frazier White III creates work in response to Belgium (Flanders) writer Ann De Bode’s book My Street.
This exhibition is presented in partnership with EUNIC DC, the EU Delegation to the United States, and the Delegation of Flanders (Belgium) to the USA.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: Working in collaboration with students from Cornerstone Schools of Washington, DC, and inspired by the communities from around the world depicted by Flemish author Ann De Bode in her picture book My Street, artist-educator Lionel Frazier White III worked inter-departmentally to lead students to canonize their neighborhoods, capturing the locations’ importance and heart through the students’ eyes and imaginations. Then, using the students’ words as his medium, Frazier created a collage response to his hometown of Washington, DC.
Lionel Frazier White III is a Washington D.C native, arts educator, and interdisciplinary conceptual artist who works in painting, drawing, wood sculpture, installation, and mixed media collage. White’s work explores themes of forced and coerced labor and its effect on family pathology, erasure, displacement, reassertion, and gentrification. White holds a Bachelors in Fine Arts from The George Washington University Corcoran School of Art and Design (2018) and is a graduate of The Duke Ellington School of the Arts High School in Washington, D.C. His work has been exhibited at the D.C Commission on Arts and Humanities, Prince George's African American Art Museum and Cultural Center, Torpedo Factory |Connect The Dots, Rush Arts Galleries, and Area 405. White was a 2019 Halcyon Arts Lab Cohort 3 Fellow in Residence in Washington DC.
Ann De Bode (1956) was born in Congo, but today lives and works in Duffel, Belgium. During her rich career, she taught and worked in an advertising agency for a while, and has illustrated almost three hundred books at home and abroad, including many of her own. She uses polymer clay, oils and acrylics, collage, and digital techniques. She has received numerous awards for her work.
A Window Through Europe
This exhibition is part of A Window to Europe: Through Literature and Art, a series of short exhibitions featuring eleven visual artists from the Washington, DC region who are creating work in response to eleven books by European writers, as part of the 2021 Europe Readr project. Featured artists are Hoesy Corona, Alanna Reeves, Mike Thron, Michal Gavish, Julie Wills, MK Bailey, Antonio McAfee, Emily Fussner, Stephanie Williams, Lionel Frazier White III, and Sobia Ahmad.
