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Restitution and Recuperation: An Exhibition by Charles H.Lee
Nov 01 - Dec 22, 2024
Wednesday - Friday: 11am - 4pm . Saturday & Sunday: 11am - 5pm
415 506 0137
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Restitution and Recuperation is an exhibition that underscores matters from the categorical denial of G.I. benefits for many Black soldiers, to the irony of vacant housing on California’s decommissioned military bases and the state possessing the highest homeless veteran population in the nation, to the ecological damage caused by the military industrial complex. These issues are as social as they are political. Using archival documents and contemporary color landscape photographs and visceral sculptures, video montages and installations, this exhibition is a call to action that aims to evoke critical dialogue surrounding solutions, ideas of financial reparation and recompense, and environmental restoration.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
In Restitution and Recuperation, Charles Lee presents both a family history and a California history in one. Utilizing archival documents, installation, visceral sculpture, contemporary landscape images and beyond, Lee parses both his grandfathers’ lives as soldiers and veterans who failed to receive the benefits of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1944 G.I Bill. Intended to provide Veterans with funding for housing, job training, education, business loans and unemployment insurance, the benefits of the bill were largely denied to African-American Veterans thereby setting back economic equality for large swaths of the Black population in a post- Jim Crow America. Charles Lee sets about exploring a visual archive of the repercussions of this discrimination within his own family’s late 60s California arrival. A deft call to action, this exhibition is as visually compelling as it is vital to our contemporary political circumstances.
Jaelynn Dale Walls
Contributing Writer
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art connects art, community, and artistic expression. The Museum is a vibrant arts center offering exceptional contemporary exhibits and education programs for art-lovers of all ages. MarinMOCA features three galleries, a museum store, and an art classroom. Over 60 artists have working studios on the museum campus.
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art connects art, community, and artistic expression. The Museum is a vibrant arts center offering exceptional contemporary exhibits and education programs for art-lovers of all ages. MarinMOCA features three galleries, a museum store, and an art classroom. Over 60 artists have working studios on the museum campus.