Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees: Travelogue Series

The University of Texas at Austin’s Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS) is excited to announce Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees’ Travelogue Series curated by Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones. 

The iteration of Travelogue Series on view at AGBS offers viewers two worlds housed in separate but complementary exhibitions. Falling into Language offers framed works on paper and found objects that suggest archeological finds with unspecified origins, presenting viewers with the opportunity to speculate about the origins of humankind. The exhibition also includes a video consisting of morphing images and a soundtrack of vocables—sounds without literal meanings—recorded around the world. These works create an environment that encourages immersion and falling into alignment with the deep unknown.

Un-Tying Our Cosmic Ancestry, premieres after a three-week long residency at AGBS by TwoTrees and collaborating sound eco-archaeologist Gideon Crevoshay. This site-specific installation of painted canvases that extend beyond their frames with dyed and manipulated cloth, and a soundscape featuring vocalized sounds, encourages visitors to consider their relationship with Nature, Spirit, and the journey home to a known, unknown, and unknowable Cosmos. TwoTrees’ artworks explore our relationship with the fluidity of time and space while encouraging a vital synthesis with Nature. For the artist, having an intimate relationship with it is essential to untangling the knots in our connection with the stellar origins we all share.

About the Art Galleries at Black Studies
The University of Texas at Austin’s Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS) is a collecting institution whose mission is to acquire, preserve, interpret, exhibit, and otherwise make accessible modern and contemporary art and cultural materials related to the Black experience for the benefit of all audiences. Comprised of two principal galleries—Christian-Green Gallery and Idea Lab—and six project spaces, AGBS’s exhibitions and programs serve communities on and off campus and engage with the larger art worlds. AGBS’s exceptional collection—numbering nearly 1,300 objects—is the core of its identity, and it sustains and catalyzes all we do.

Founded in 2016, The University of Texas at Austin’s Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS) is the sole on-campus entity, at The University of Texas at Austin, dedicated to art about the Black experience. As a preeminent cultural asset of Black Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, it is a center for teaching, learning, and scholarship. AGBS serves as a forum for the creative and critical expression of artists, historians, and curators.

The University of Texas at Austin’s Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS) is open to all, free of charge, and is committed to fostering feelings of ownership of art and visual culture in diverse audiences.

Events
Add Your Voice sound workshop: August 12, virtual / Add Your Voice sound workshop: August 29 / Conversation with Virginia Grise & Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees: September 9, recording forthcoming / Exhibition “Enlivening” by TwoTrees and Gideon Crevoshay: September 14, recording forthcoming.