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"When one of your own color could be so different it puts you on a wonder" The show lifts its title from Zora Neale Hurston. Like Hurston, Dennis McNulty is concerned with places and locations. McNulty's latest body of work considers Christianity's place in the Deep South. McNulty describes his practice as one deeply rooted in place, one “concerned with distilling the essence of Southern culture” into material form, manifesting that culture as vinyl, paint, and paper. Almost all of McNulty's figures are silhouettes. As with Kara Walker's work, the viewer feels a sense of anxiety, even fear, when confronted with these ambiguous figures. McNulty's silhouettes function like Rorschach inkblots. Stripped of detail, they force the viewer to reconstruct the missing parts—to fill in the gaps, sometimes with surprising results. |