Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Everyone will be saved through the algebra (A Casual Mathematics, II)
May 29th, 2021 – August 28th, 2021
Artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed presents a solo exhibition of wall painting, large-scale diagrammatic prints, poems, and a public mural at Piero Atchugarry Gallery.
The Piero Atchugarry Gallery presents Everyone will be saved through the algebra (A Casual Mathematics, II), a solo exhibition of text-based video work, installation and prints by Kameelah Janan Rasheed. The artist’s first solo exhibition in Miami, Everyone will be saved through the algebra (A Casual Mathematics, II) investigates the formal qualities of things already considered factual, in search of what exceeds the frame.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985, East Palo Alto; lives and works in Brooklyn) is a learner grappling with the poetics, politics, and pleasures of the unfinished. Engaging primarily with text, Rasheed works on the page, on walls, and in public spaces to create associative arrangements of letters and words that invite an embodied and iterative reading processes. Rasheed is invested in Black storytelling technologies that ask us to consider ways of [un]learning that are interdisciplinary, interspecies, and interstellar.
Rasheed’s work has been exhibited nationally at the Brooklyn Museum; The New Museum, New York; MASS MoCA; Queens Museum; Bronx Museum; Studio Museum in Harlem; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Brooklyn Public Library; and the Brooklyn Historical Society, among others. Her work has been exhibited internationally at NOME Gallery; Transmission Gallery; Kunsthalle Wien; Bétonsalon - Centre d'art et de recherche; Haus der Architektur; Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver; Artspace Peterborough; 2017 Venice Biennale; and National Gallery of Zimbabwe, among others. Her public installations include Ballroom Marfa; Brooklyn Museum; For Freedoms x Times Square Art; Public Art Fund; Rice University, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston; The California Air Resources Board, and several others. She is the author of two artist’s books, An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions, 2019) and No New Theories (Printed Matter, 2019). Her writing has appeared in Triple Canopy, The New Inquiry, Shift Space, and others. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts.
Selected Works
and, who amongst us will circumambulate the beloved idols of perfect certainty.also, 18:109. and we fall, dizzy, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, 127 x 101.6 cm.
400 years and swerve?, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
All Chance, 2018, Archival Inkjet Print, 60.96 x 50.8 cm.
Approximations, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, 60.96 x 50.8 cm.
Bar Graph, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, 50 x 40 in.
Everyone Will Be Saved Through the Algebra, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, 17 x 11 in.
Future, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, 101.6 x 127 cm.
Lazy Equation, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, 50.8 x 40.64 cm.
Long Division I, 2018, Archival Inkjet Print, 76.2 x 50.8 cm.
Long Division, II, , 2018, Archival Inkjet Print, 30 x 20 in.
Sketch 01, 2021, Archival Inkjet Print, 14 x 11 in.
Sketch 02, 2021, Archival Inkjet Print, 14 x 11 in.
Sketch 03, 2021, Archival Inkjet Print, 14 x 11 in.
Sketch 04, 2021, Archival Inkjet Print, 14 x 11 in.
Sketch 05, 2021, Archival Inkjet Print, 14 x 11 in.
Sum Follow, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, 101.6 x 76.2 cm.
Perimeter, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, 30 x 20 in.
Still from Keeping Count, 2021, Projected Video
Still from Keeping Count, 2021, Projected Video
Virtual Tour
Video Podcasts
Brooklyn-based artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed gives us a tour of her solo exhibition “Everyone will be saved through the algebra,” now open to the public in our Miami gallery’s Survey Space.
