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"Cockpit" marks the debut solo exhibition by the Chicago-based artist Ajmal ‘Mas Man’ Millar. A multimedia and interdisciplinary artist, Millar aligns himself to traditions of folk art and craft techniques within Trinidadian culture and Black diasporic communities at large and intersects them with subjects of queer sex-positive cultures like kink, BDSM, among others. In doing so, Millar’s work advances neo-folk and neo-craft within a postmodern context. His sculptural assemblages disrupt the modern abstract impulses to reduce art to only its formal qualities. Millar’s work cannot be …