On March 16, 2022, Second Street Gallery hosted a virtual artist talk with artists and long-time friends Stuart Robertson and Luke Williams. The artists discussed Robertson’s solo exhibition, A Suh Wi Dweet, on view in the Main Gallery from February 4 - March 25, 2022.

Watch the recording on YouTube HERE.

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Learn more about the artists:

Stuart Robertson (b. 1992, Kingston, Jamaica) is a mixed media artist who paints, collages, and assembles images of Black life inspired by the nostalgia for his birthplace, confrontations with the American dream, and fantasies of the African Diaspora’s future. His creative and educational practices prioritize interdisciplinary discourse and aesthetic innovation that better serve the representation of the Black diaspora in contemporary art. Robertson received a BA in studio art from Davidson College in 2015, a MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, and MFA from Stanford University in June 2020. He was a 2020-21 Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts and an honorary artist-in-residence at the Kala Art Institute. Stuart is currently a full time teaching artist-in-residence at the Lawrenceville School, NJ and is a prizewinning finalist for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s 2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

Luke Williams is a scholar, artist, organizer, and critic of twentieth and twenty-first century Black performance and visual cultures. His work, which spans embodiment, portraiture, racial capitalism, Afrofuturism, and the aesthetics of the Black radical imagination, focuses on Black Diasporic art in the Americas and broader Atlantic world. Williams is a PhD candidate in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. He most recently held fellowships for the Committee of Black Performing Arts at Stanford and the Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia.