Hyperallergic’s Fall 2022 New York Art Guide features Fine Arts faculty Kiyan Williams’s sculpture “Ruins of Empire” (2022) as part of the exhibition Black Atlantic.
Black Atlantic includes artists Leilah Babirye, Hugh Hayden, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis, and Kiyan Williams who created site-responsive sculptures along the Brooklyn waterfront. These five artists explore multivalent visions of Blackness and diasporic identities linked to legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. Sculptor and co-curator Hugh Hayden displays a beached ship evoking a whale carcass, while Kiyan Williams offers a crumbling earthen monument.
Brooklyn Bridge Park (publicartfund.org)
Piers 1, 2, and 3, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
Through November 27
https://hyperallergic.com/756529/fall-2022-new-york-art-guide/
Image caption: Kiyan Williams, “Ruins of Empire” (2022) (photo by Nicholas Knight, courtesy the artist and Public Art Fund, NY)
