ARROGATE works by Andrew Ellis Johnson

ARROGATE works by Andrew Ellis Johnson

The University of Dayton Index Gallery is excited to present ARROGATE works by Andrew Ellis Johnson opening March 24th and running through May 20th, 2022! Andrew Ellis Johnson’s work explores social and political issues, wrestling with boundaries between aesthetic, political and moral orders. He treats representation — not as a hermetic mimetic pictorial tradition — but as an agency to awaken and combat torpor. Venues for his work have included museums, galleries, arts and video festivals, public collaborations, conferences, and publications in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. UD’s Department of Art and Design also invites you to a Public Reception and Artist Talk at The Hub located at the Dayton Arcade March 24th from 5-7pm at ‘The Square’ located on the second floor of the Hub on the Rotunda and in the Index Gallery located on first floor off the rotunda.

From the artist:

We are indoctrinated to not see our own privilege. This willful and self-serving blindness is difficult to sustain, not a trait to be pitied or suffered. Yet privilege continues to excuse itself. Arrogate is a verb meaning to ‘assume or appropriate to oneself without right.’ The large drawings in ARROGATE portray the five of our first seven presidents who were masters of this verb—as they were masters of hundreds of enslaved people while in office. In designating certain lives as inferior and ownable, labor as capital to be seized and multiplied, human and natural resources as inexhaustible revenue for the taking, American oligarchs and institutions continue to arrogate and amass disproportionate wealth. ARROGATE presents visual allegories of indictment, comeuppance, reflection and revenge, of rights violated, abrogated, lost and won—struggles that persist today.

Regular gallery hours are 9-5 M-F.

University of Dayton’s Index Gallery is located in the Hub at the Dayton Arcade 31 South Main Street Dayton, Ohio 45402. Gallery Hours are 9-5 Monday through Friday, all visitors are required to adhere to local COVID-19 restrictions. For additional information contact University of Dayton Galleries Coordinator, Nicholaus Arnold at 937-229-3204 or narnold1@udayton.edu.

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The Hub Dayton

ARROGATE works by Andrew Ellis Johnson is taking place at The Hub Dayton, which is located at 31 South Main Street in Dayton. The Hub Dayton - The Dayton Region's Hub for new venture creation, social innovation, and entrepreneurship education.