Galleries, Miami
Group Exhibition
Anthem X
Malin GalleryTimothy Bair, Mary Baxter, Bryana Bibbs, Bubi Canal, Angela China, Tameca Cole, Lindsey Brittain Collins, Michael Coppage, Russell Craig, Stef Duffy, Patricia Encarnación, Daniel Gaitor-Lomack, Valerie Hegarty, Heather Jones, Melissa Joseph, Jesse Krimes, Omar Lawson, Mark Loughney, SK Lyons, Chella Man, Marcus Manganni, Athena LaTocha, Sylvia Maier, Helina Metaferia, Mychaelyn Michalec, Amy Myers, Prinston Nnanna, Jared Owens, Tom Prinsell, Yuval Pudik, Ernesto Renda, Gilberto Rivera, Nazeer Sabree, Danielle Scott, Foad Satterfield, Stephanie H. Shih, Taryn Simon, Sagarika Sundaram, Maryam Turkey, Fletcher Williams, Cedric Wilson, Aimee Wissman Malin Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Anthem X, curated by artist Jared Owens, during Miami Art Week 2022. Located in Wynwood, the exhibition features work by an intergenerational cohort of 42 artists excavating the sociocultural terrain to challenge notions of personal and collective identitiy within the American context. The theme for Anthem X was inspired by Ada Limón’s poem A New National Anthem (2018), which highlights the racism and violence imbued within the The Star-Spangled Banner and calls for an entirely new type of anthem: "…And what of the stanzas we never sing, the third that mentions “no refuge could save the hireling of the slave”? Perhaps, the truth is, every song of this country has an unsung third stanza, something brutal snaking underneath us as we blindly sing…" —Ada Limón, A New National Anthem, 2018 As if to amplify Limón's call to action, the artists in the exhibition are united in their desire to amplify voices that counter past societal omissions and negations - to inspire as yet unknown anthems. The multiplicity of their perspectives cannot be reduced to a singular narrative or origin story; hence, Anthem X. "All the artists in Anthem X ask us to think and look at our contexts differently. They each have a singular, compelling story from which they make work. Mine is that I taught myself how to create art in a prison cell. I have chosen to present formerly incarcerated artists alongside those with no background in the criminal justice system, but I consider everyone in the exhibition to be justice-impacted in one way or another. I believe that this is what creates the fertile ground for deeper dialogue and connections between artists and ultimately the drive to create new anthems of inclusion." —Jared Owens A portion of sales from Anthem X will go to support the Right of Return USA Fellowship, co-founded by two exhibiting artists in the show, Jesse Krimes and Russell Craig. Right of Return is the only fellowship that exclusively supports formerly-incarcerated artists. Jared Owens (b. 1968, Queens, NY) currently lives and works in New York. Owens' recent exhibitions include Chosen Family at Martos Gallery, NY (2021); SHAG Right of Return, Spring Hills Arts Gathering, New Preston, CT (2021); Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020 - 2021) at MoMA PS1, NY, which traveled to the Abroms-Engle Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL (2021); the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH (2022); and the List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI. Owens participated in Rendering Justice at the African American Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (2021); The O.G. Experience in partnership with HBO and SOZE, New York, NY (2019); Made in America: Unfree Labor in the Age of Mass Incarceration at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA (2017); Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrichalian Poets at Morian Gallery, Lexington, KY (2017). Based in Charleston, SC, from 2015 - 2021, Owens showed at the Mitchell Hill Gallery. His 2015 exhibition was part of the annual Spoleto Arts Festival. Owens inaugural exhibition, a joint show with artist Jesse Krimes, was shown at Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, while both artists were still incarcerated. In 2022, Owens was awarded an Art for Justice Fellowship. He has twice received a fellowship from the Silver Arts Program at the World Trade Center in New York (2021 - 2022). Other fellowships include Right of Return (2022); Restorative Justice from Philadelphia Mural Arts (2019); and Eastern State Penitentiary (2016 - 2017).