It's Complicated (Reception and Performances)

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Photos by Derrick Beasley

Curators Angel Dozier and Cassandra Rowe

It might seem like an artifact of the early aughts, but Facebook’s “It’s Complicated” option is still available on a drop-down menu. Fifteen years ago, this option might have represented something merely sticky about college relationships, but the phrase has also come to stand as a catchall for the many iterations and, well, complications of modern love. More than twenty local artists and storytellers, including Jamila Davenport, Derrick Beasley, and Monét Noelle Marshall, are featured in this showcase, which includes photography, paintings, song, and dance. The performances will explore intimacy’s many forms, and they don’t shy away from the harder parts (promised topics include death and toxicity). The exhibition runs on weekends through March, kicking off with this opening reception on February 15 and concluding with a closing reception, which will include an artist talk, on March 1. —Sarah Edwards