BLACK / RED / PINK: Black, Red, & Queer Power in the Punk Movement
Jack Clayton, Zeta Paul, Kev Plummer, Julia Rose Sutherland, Curated by Paxton Romana.
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Treaty Space Gallery, 1887 Granville St
Curatorial Mentorship
BLACK / RED / PINK brings archival materials into dialogue with contemporary artworks by Jack Clayton (@cowpoke_tattoos), Zeta Paul (@zetapaulart), Kev Plummer (@kevplummer), and Julia Rose Sutherland (@julia.rose.sutherland), positioning punk’s influence within Black, Indigenous, and Queer resistance. The materials have been gathered from the northeastern coast of Turtle Island, from Lenapehoking to Kjipuktuk.
Punk’s beginnings coincided with a period of heightened resistance within Black, Indigenous, and Queer communities. Emerging alongside protests and organizing against the colonial state, punk became a visual and sonic culture rooted in radical anger, collective care, survival, and liberation. As its art, sound, and rejection of the state caught the attention of suburban youth, it came to be named punk. Curated by Pax Romana.
This exhibition was developed through Dalhousie Art Gallery’s Mentorship Program, supported by the Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program at Canadian Heritage.
The opening event will be masked but Treaty Space Gallery does not require masks during their regular hours. Audience members are welcome to drop-in and out depending on their comfort during the reception. There will be music at a louder volume during the opening. Please contact the curator with any access needs and we will do our best to accommodate them. Please reach out to Paxton.Romana@dal.ca.
