Levester Williams: Our Bedrock

By Arts Division, Institute of the Arts and Sciences

Thursday, February 6, 2025 12pm to 5pm

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  • Friday, February 7, 2025 12pm to 5pm
  • Saturday, February 8, 2025 12pm to 5pm
  • Sunday, February 9, 2025 12pm to 5pm
  • Tuesday, February 11, 2025 12pm to 5pm
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2025 12pm to 5pm
  • Thursday, February 13, 2025 12pm to 5pm
  • Friday, February 14, 2025 12pm to 5pm
  • Saturday, February 15, 2025 12pm to 5pm
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Our Bedrock is the first West Coast solo show of Philadelphia-based artist Levester Williams. Including sculpture, installation, performance and video, as well as photographs by legendary jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton, the exhibition traces the foundational nature of Black struggles in the United States.

 

The exhibition centers on the histories that emerge through William’s research into Cockeysville Marble, mined in Baltimore County, Maryland. In William’s practice, the creative assembly of reworked marble, Hinton’s photographs, Holiday’s autobiography, Blues music, and Black performance reveals Black Struggle—and Black creativity—to be the bedrock of the nation. This counters notions of power which imagine it as held only by the state. Instead, in William’s careful masonry, Black art, music, and movements provide the building blocks for a new world.  Learn more about the artist and the exhbition on the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) website here.

 

The exhibition is organized as part of Visualizing Abolition and with the support of David G. Berger and Holly Maxson.

ADMISSION
- FREE and open to the public.
- The entrance to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences is on Delaware Street and has an accessibility ramp.
- Gallery hours and visitor information: https://ias.ucsc.edu/

FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
- The exhibition will be on view January 31—April 20, 2025, Tuesday–Sunday, noon–5:00 p.m. 
- The opening celebration is February 7, 2025, 6:00–8:00 p.m.

PARKING
- Convenient and free self-parking is available on Panetta Avenue and High Road, immediately adjacent to the galleries.
- Accessible parking is on High Rd.

Image credit: Levester Williams, a centerpiece (Lady Sings the Blues), 2021.

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