PIGMENT’S GLORY! GLORY! ARTISTS STEP ONTO THE NATIONAL STAGE

Heads/Hearts/Hands by Candace Hunter and In the Land of the Free by Reggie McFly. Both works are headed to museum exhibitions.

Flag reinterpretations from Candace Hunter snd Reggie McFly move to museum exhibitions

Two artists whose work has moved through Pigment International's galleries are now commanding national attention.

Candace Hunter, whose piece Heads/Hearts/Hands from Glory! Glory! — Pigment's exhibition reimagining the American flag through Black artists' eyes — has landed on the walls of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Her work is featured in “We Are This Land: Meditations on the Great American Experiment,” a sprawling group exhibition that places Hunter alongside artists including Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold, Julie Mehretu and Sanford Biggers. The exhibition is on view now, free and open to the public, at 547 East Circle Drive in East Lansing, Michigan.

Meanwhile, Reggie McFly's “In the Land of the Free” has been selected for Art of Soul!, the 11th biennial National Juried Art Show presented by the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio. This year's theme, “America 250: Our Story,” invited artists nationwide to reflect on the nation's journey through the lens of the African diaspora — a fitting home for a piece born out of McFly's ongoing meditation on freedom, limitation and what it means to be seen. The juried show opens Saturday, October 24, during Black Fine Art Month (BFAM). The piece was recently acquired by collector Taroue Brooks.

Both placements are a reminder of what Pigment has always believed: that the work our artists make in Chicago belongs in the country's most important rooms. We'll be watching — and cheering — as both exhibitions open this fall.

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