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LatchKey Gallery is proud to present CROWN at this year’s ExpoChicago, Exposure Section (Booth 281). Working from a place of healing, CROWN will feature new works by Josie Love Roebuck and Ashanté Kindle. Each artist uses their unique visual language to explore and ultimately rejoice in the legacy of Black hair.

At the center, symbolically hanging as an altarpiece is Josie Love Roebuck’s, Better than Blood. A tapestry that reflects the relationship between the artist and her mother, and how, through trial and error, taught Roebuck how to take care for her hair. Embroidered within the tapestry …