Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center is pleased to present Afrofuturism, an exhibition featuring five seminal visual artists working in Afrofuturism including: Nanette Carter, Renee Cox, Ernest Frazier, Algernon Miller, and Tyrone Mitchell. This exhibition is the sequel to the Afrofuturism exhibition that was held in Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York City earlier in the year.

The presentation includes artworks that narrate the underlying concepts of Afrofuturism by imagining parallel or distant realities that are as empowering as they are liminal. While Afrofuturism as a subject matter has impacted a wide and dynamic number of artists' work, those included in the exhibition represent members of the community who have demonstrated an extended if not lifelong commitment to the concept demonstrated by works included in the exhibition, dated from as early as 1970.

While some of the artists are experiencing extreme moments of public success and are the subjects of current or forthcoming solo museum exhibitions such as Nanette Carter: Shifting perspectives, at the Montclair Art Museum or Sentinels at the Wexner Center for the Arts, others have oddly remained shrouded in relative obscurity even though they had immense initial curatorial acclaim such as Ernest Frazier who was included in the first Whitney Biennial in 1973. For those who are new to the subject or those who want the opportunity to dive deeper into works by these seminal figures, we welcome you to explore Afrofuturism at Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center.

(Text by Isaac Aden)