Rescheduled - Book Signing with Artist Jammie Holmes

This event has been rescheduled.

Join us for a book signing with artist Jammie Holmes at the Modern Shop!
Jammie Holmes Monograph Release
RESCHEDULED FOR Saturday, November 19, 2:30-3:30 pm
 

Jammie Holmes’s monograph is complete with 208 color pages, a hard linen cover, and hand-finished screenprinted edges. Each special edition book is accompanied by a custom-designed tote bag. Price for both is $75.

Jammie Holmes is a self-taught artist from Thibodaux, Louisiana, whose work tells the story of contemporary life for many Black families in the Deep South and across America. Through portraiture and tableaux, Holmes depicts stories of the celebrations and struggles of everyday life, with particular attention paid to a profound sense of place.

Published on the occasion of Holmes’s Pieces of a Man solo exhibition at Library Street Collective in Detroit, this is the artist’s first monograph. The publication chronicles Holmes’s work from 2019 through 2021, a pivotal span of time in which the artist rose to prominence after initiating a public aerial demonstration that extended across five cities on May 30, 2020, in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Airplanes with banners presenting Floyd’s final words connected these places across the United States to support Minneapolis in a national protest against police brutality within the Black community. Included in the monograph is a letter written by Holmes’s cousin Christopher Holmes, as well as an essay written by Juana Williams, Associate Curator of African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Art.