First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, 2021 Black girlhood is a site of great triumph and sometimes trauma. This portrait project focuses on their intersection in a visual narrative which takes a classic museum artifact “The Portrait” as its primary subject.  Black Girls while often looked at are seldom seen --this project creates space to see black girls in their girlhood. To offer the portrait of the ordinary black girl as a monument.The Portrait Series is intended to be a travelling event , which emphasizes  the importance of black girls and black womxn expanding her boundaries and moving about the world while simultaneously highlighting the tension and danger inherent in her movement.  First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, 2021 is the first exhibit designed by TCGM to leave the museum, traveling throughout Philadelphia, and then out of the state. 

Commissions made possible by:

The Knight Foundation