Join Tephra ICA for the closing reception of Flare at Tephra ICA Signature, featuring an artist talk with Charles Philippe Jean-Pierre and Shantay Robinson. Free and open to the public. 6-8pm on Friday, October 13th.

Flare is an exhibition of four recent and ongoing series by DC-based artist Charles Philippe Jean-Pierre. Drawing on his Haitian heritage and his experiences as an immigrant child growing up on the southside of Chicago, Jean-Pierre’s work explores how memory, color, and light shape our historical and contemporary imaginations. His multi-media paintings speak to the nexus of political social, and economic structures and are representative of the synergy, or lack thereof, between social perceptions and reality.

Shantay Robinson is a Museum Correspondent for Smithsonian Magazine, Resident Scholar at Black Art in America, and regular freelance contributor to Washington City Paper and ARTnews. She has also written for Burnaway, Arts ATL, Nashville Scene, ARTS.BLACK, AFROPUNK, Sugarcane Magazine and Number, Inc. She has published scholarly articles in Teaching Artist Journal and International Review of African American Art.