In 'The Black Domestic, To Be Determined,' Charlie Alston creates an illuminating exhibition of paintings centered around the status and imagination of Black Americans in the West. This is a space where the functions of luxury and resource meet the function of the multi-purpose room. A space where multiculturalism claims a permanent residence in the exploration of alternative ways of living. This layer of black existence, superimposed upon a system of white dominance, both threatens and depends on its entangled counterpart in order to exist. Alston presents this negotiation and confronts the motivations and realities of Black self-determinism. Alston weaves together history and magical realism through historical reference, painted collage and phantom figuration. His paintings envelop the black figure in a color field of deep washes and flat planes that create a liminal reality, constantly in movement. Book an appointment: https://mbart.as.me/schedule.php