Jerome Sloan Show at Pushdot

Jerome Sloan’s 50 Years of Hip the Process of Change comes to Pushdot Studio for October and November, starting with an opening reception and artist talk Friday, October 6, 6-8 pm. Sloan is an African American artist from Portland who started out as a spray painter as a kid in the 1980s and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1994 at the age of 19. Last year Governor Kate Brown commuted his sentence and he was released in May 2022 due to the social work he had done for over a decade, teaching art and facilitating cognitive programming for people in prison that were trying to change.
Sloan says, “Art has helped me through personal struggles to make sense of and find meaning in my life.” In this collection, he looks at hip hop, which is 50 years old, just like Sloan. “I wanted to show how hip hop has been my gospel throughout my life and has grown with me, from the first album that I ever owned, LL Cool J’s I’m Bad, to what I listen to today. Each new cover has my alter ego character ‘INK’ somewhere in it. The show is about the process of change. I would take a positive line out of certain songs considered ‘gangster’ and I would use it as my motivation to keep pushing forward. The lines have been like gospel that has played in my ears throughout my life.”
Visit Pushdot Studio Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-5 pm, free admission. The gallery is located in the Ford Building, 2505 SE 11th Ave., Suite 104. Enter through the Division St. doors.

Jerome Sloan Show at Pushdot

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