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Dreamsong is pleased to present Awakening, a solo exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by Ta-coumba T. Aiken. Born in 1952, Aiken is fond of reminding interlocutors that his first art exhibition was held at six-years-old in the basement of his family’s home in Evanston, Illinois.

Through paintings and works on paper rooted in abstraction, with particular affinities to the work of Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden, and alongside a renowned public art practice ignited through John T. Biggers’ mentorship, Aiken has spent decades channeling the spirits of his ancestors through form …