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Food Material: Adee Roberson and Essence Harden

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Food Material is a series where artists and food practitioners share ingredients and material on their minds and in their lives, diving deep into their histories and meaning today. These conversations in the kitchen (and sometimes studio) also include friends and special guests, addressing how ingredients can take us from cooking-in-quarantine to questions of scarcity or accessibility, as well as the confluence of cooking and art-making.

Food Material premiered with artist Adee Roberson and curator Essence Harden, close friends who have also shared time in quarantine. From Adee’s front yard in Atwater Village, Los Angeles, the two talked recipes, food, legacy, and ancestry, and how the waltz between the itinerant roots of the African Diaspora manifests in Adee’s art practice.

About the Artists

Essence Harden
Essence Harden is an independent curator, and arts writer based in Los Angeles. Essence has curated exhibitions at Charlie James Gallery, California African American Museum (CAAM), Antenna Gallery (New Orleans), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), The Advocate and Gochis Galleries, Residency Art Gallery (Inglewood),...
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Adee Roberson
Adee Roberson is a Los Angeles-based artist who weaves sonic and familial archives with landscape, technicolor, rhythm, form, and spirit. She has exhibited and performed internationally, including Antenna Gallery; Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario; Charlie James Gallery; Contemporary Art Center New Orleans; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Portland Institute...
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About the Series

Food Material is a series organized by Active Cultures’ former curator Bianca Morán that explores how foodways provide a window into our most fundamental beliefs about cultural expression, equity, environmental sustainability, and ourselves. 

In the ongoing series Food Material, artists and food practitioners share ingredients and material on their minds and in their lives, diving deep into their histories and meaning today. These conversations in the studio (and sometimes kitchen) often include friends and special guests, addressing how ingredients can take us from cooking-in-quarantine to questions of scarcity or accessibility, as well as the confluence of food and art-making.

Credits

Food Material was made possible in part through the generous support of the Active Cultures Board of Directors; Founders Circle members Mehran and Laila Taslimi; and the Wilhelm Family Foundation.

Event Details

DATE: June 16, 2020

LOCATION: Online

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