Speaking Dark: Adrienne Elise Tarver and Taylor Renee Aldridge in Conversation

OCHI is pleased to present To Learn The Dark, an exhibition of new work by artist Adrienne Elise Tarver. This is the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery. To Learn The Dark will be on view at OCHI Aux, located at 3305 W Washington Blvd in Los Angeles, California from February 15 through April 1, 2023. The exhibition will open with a public gallery talk in conjunction with Frieze Los Angeles titled, Speaking Dark: Adrienne Elise Tarver and Taylor Renee Aldridge in Conversation, to take place on Wednesday, February 15th from 4 to 5pm PST, followed by an opening reception from 5 to 7pm PST.

To Learn The Dark features new tapestries, large-scale collage works, and a video installation that build on Tarver’s interest into the multitudinous nature and invisibility of Black women, these artworks consider darkness as space, identity, and a tool to embrace the possibilities of freedom, joy, and growth. To Learn The Dark references bell hook’s Belonging: A Culture of Place (1990). Part autobiography, part critical theory, hooks charts a non-linear course towards a fully realized sense of place, which she calls “darkness.”