Hear Allison Janae Hamilton (2019 Creative Capital Awardee) in conversation with Joan Jonas at Marianne Boesky Gallery as they discuss Hamilton’s solo exhibition Celestine, which features a Creative Capital-funded film and paintings. 

In Celestine at Marianne Boesky, Hamilton draws on her upbringing in the American South, weaving land-centric folklore, regional mythology, and family history into sculpture, paintings, photographs, and films that address the social and political concerns of the rural South. Layering narratives derived from folktales, hunting and farming rituals, Black feminist writings, and Baptist hymns, Hamilton imagines epic myths within the rural terrain as a way of examining environmental justice, land loss, climate change, and sustainability.