Opening: Saturday, April 3rd, 5pm-Midnight, 2021
Closing: Saturday, May 29th, 2021
TR7 creates an "Art Happening" that an agency for improvisation & ephemeral matrix of modalities. Maneuvering sculptural metaphors & activating social commentary works as signifier of the surveillance state and questioning the autonomy of self.
Accompany by Raoof's 11th iteration of the Micro Film Festival's immersive video installation are works who origins speaks to specific events/individuals. However, as in language, they have morphed to mirror the current state of the union & beyond. " It's like these works have an etymology of their own".
The use of assemblage works (of readymade materials) placed in conversation & or merged to speak to symbolic meanings & gestures that contain & question notions the human condition.
Furthermore, the a/v activation of installation will be conducted in 4 measures.
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Taji Ra'oof Nahl aka TR7 is an American interdisciplinary artist whose vocabulary delves into social commentary via historical & futurist aesthetic. Installation, video, performance , soundscapes, sculpture, painting, are utilities that embodies poetic & abstract narrative for his oeuvre.
His work has been in exhibitions at, The Italian Palace - Tangier Morocco, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Kelly Writers House at University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery at Columbia College of Chicago. African American Art Museum Philadelphia, & Fleisher Art Memorial.
Solo exhibition which include; Pageant Soloveev Gallery Philadelphia, Indigo Bleu Design & Cultural Center, Little Berlin Annex Space & Icebox Project Space, Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia and Velocity Fund grant recipient for 2019.
Group showing at West Chester University, Goggleworks Reading Pa., Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia Pa., National Archive Philadelphia. Pa., University of Pennsylvania. James Dupree Gallery, Philadelphia City Hall, Moore College of Art, and others.
Also includes in 2015 Artblog People's Choice awards PEW Fellow (wish list), and (By way of - Kali Yuga Zoo Brigade ) 2015 Best Exhibit .
Artist -In- Residence Icebox Project Space 2017 along with creative director at American Muslim Museum & Archive. Commissioned projects with Paul Robeson House, John Coltrane House - Philadelphia, & Fairmount Park Conservancy. With Performative works at Kimmel Center, Vox Populi, ICA Philadelphia, Harlem Gatehouse, & Masjidullah Cultural Center.
Furthermore he was founder & director of acclaimed Taji Modern Gallery in Philadelphia circa 1998 - 2009. Also he a member of Philadelphia Dumptser Divers.
As TR7 social engagement base expands, so does his collaboration list; Jamaaladeen Tacuma, George E. Lewis, Amber Arts Collective, Kali Yuga Zoo Brigade, Yoichi Uzeki, Charles Lloyd, June Lopez, Eva Peston, Meg Foley Erik Honesty, Bariq Combs, Sebastienne Mundheim, Embarker, Chaka Benson & others.
Taji also spearheads 2Spiral Art Collective, collaborates with artist of vast disciplines to develop art that explores the transformative elements of compassion, freedom, justice and productive activism.