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Parallel Lines describes a motif present to one degree or another in the works on view, as well as suggests that its use as a visual trope links a diverse group of artists to one another and to traditional African Art. The exhibition is not meant to suggest that African Art is a direct source of influence on the contemporary works (although it is for Willie Cole), but rather that an affinity to pattern and repetition resonates across widely disparate cultures.
For all of the artists in the exhibition, patterning derives from repetition, emerging from an accretive process – the building of …