Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

Space Is the Place is a Hammer Contemporary Collection exhibition that takes its title from the 1973 studio album and 1974 film by Sun Ra (1914–1993), a Black American experimental jazz composer and musician known for his radical and esoteric views on Black liberation. The selected works in the exhibition consider “space” as a conceptual framework, through the themes of afro-futurism, belonging, placemaking, and the act of taking up space. Space Is the Place comprises installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and multi-media works by nearly thirty artists. Artists in the exhibition include Edgar Arceneaux, Kevin Beasley, Nayland Blake, Mark Bradford, Ben Caldwell, Coleman Collins, Danielle Dean, Fred Eversley, Lauren Halsey, Juliana Huxtable, Arthur Jafa, Forrest Kirk, Rodney McMillian, Arcmanoro Niles, Thomas J Price, Michael Queenland, Jamilah Sabur, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Shikeith, Cauleen Smith, Eric Wesley, Brenna Youngblood, and others.

Space is the Place: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection is organized by Erin Christovale, curator, with Juan Manuel Silverio, curatorial assistant.