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TERN is proud to announce our participation in the EXPOSURE section, Booth 472, of EXPO Chicago with Chicago-based Jamaican artist, Leasho Johnson, and Nassau-based Bahamian artist, Heino Schmid. Both artists center the body through figurative abstraction allowing sites for intimacy and obscurity. Working primarily in painting, installation, and sculpture, Johnson highlights black queer intimacy within the Caribbean landscape. While prioritizing the relationship between subject and landscape, Johnson employs the folklore figure of “Anansi” to articulate the nuances of queerness in Jamaica. …