Space One Eleven presents Let them eat red earth. Let them eat dirt. by Aisha Tandiwe Bell and 59th Street Stories: the Ways of the Folk by Tony Bingham Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 from 5:30-7:00 pm artist performance by Aisha Tandiwe Bell at 6:15 pm at the Space One Eleven Galleries 2407 Second Avenue North, downtown Birmingham, Alabama This event is free and open to the public. Space One Eleven’s fall 2016 Visual Artists Network (VAN) artist in residence from Brooklyn, Aisha Tandiwe Bell creates myth and ritual through sculpture, performance, video, sound and drawing while exploring the shifting of the individuals’ identity to compensate for and navigate unequal relationships in race, sex and class. The exhibition title references the famous quote “let them eat cake.” The title, both metaphoric and literal, finds its roots in our extremely unequal contemporary economics and the practice of largely lower income women and children around the world actually eating clay dirt. Birmingham artist Tony Bingham’s art making process involves engaging with the history of a place and its people, both past and present. “I engage in conversations and go where that leads me, weaving back and forth between people and places, such as churches, cemeteries, barbershops and farmers markets, junk yards and academic institutions”. Bingham works in cast metal/cast glass sculpture, pinhole photography, drawing, printmaking and installation. His site specific/community engaged sculpture Reunion Place was commissioned by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games in 1996. The exhibitions will be on display at Space One Eleven from Sept. 2016 through Feb. 2017. Space One Eleven is supported in part by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. This project is made possible, in part, through support from the National Performance Network’s Visual Artists Network. Major contributors are the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Additional support comes from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, SOE’s Board of Directors, friends of Space One Eleven, corporate and individual donors and volunteers.

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