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    <p>In the <em>Saints </em>series, Marin Burnett reflects on her experience as a Black woman in America. Burnett challenges the distorted and fragmented images of Black women through a societal lens, drawing a parallel to how light refracts around an object as it moves through water. <em>Refracted Saint No. 1 </em>envisions the differences between how Black women view themselves and the ways others see them. The work depicts a Black female body as a “whole saint” adorned with only a halo. Set against a vibrant gilded background, she occupies space with her refracted reflection in water. “As we pass through an intolerant society, our image is distorted, our light and our sainthood refracted – but we are somehow still whole,” Burnett has explained. “Real saints are not gilded, they are pained, flawed, and beautiful people.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p><p>Image: Marin Burnett, <em>Refracted Saint No. 1, 2019</em></p></p>
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    <p>Brittney Leeanne Williams,&nbsp;<i>Our Horizon</i>, 2019. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Collection of Josef Vascovitz and Lisa Goodman.&nbsp;Courtesy of the artist&nbsp;and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. Photo: RCH Photography.
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    <p>Installation detail of&nbsp;<em>Free Them All: Portraits from La Resistencia</em>, 2020, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington,&nbsp;Seattle. Photo: Ian Siporin.</p>
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    <p>Image courtesy of Devon Damonte.</p>
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    ArtVenture: Magic Patterns - Washi Tape Animation on Film with Jackie Argo and Devon Damonte

    February 7, 2021 – February 14, 2021