Location
Brooklyn, New York, 11238
About this event
SONGS OF THE CROSSING!
Saturday, March 28th
1:30pm - 4:00pm
JACK: 20 Putnam Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Join us at 1:30pm to view the art of Julian Rozzell Jr.
At 2:00pm, we'll screen the film SELMA: Songs of the Crossing (the 30 minute version), featuring Julian.
$: pay what you wish
Prints and originals of Julian's work will be available to view and collect. Please visit https://www.julianrozzell.com/ to learn more.
About the film:
SELMA, Songs of the Crossing follows New York-based artist Julian Rozzell into the heart of Selma, Alabama, as the city prepares to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Civil Rights Marches. Part art film, part video diary, part waking dream, the film immerses viewers in a community navigating the distance between the exaltation of its history and the quiet weight of the present. Through the artist's eyes, and the intimate reflections he crafts for his young son, we are drawn into a world where memory, struggle, and survival exist side by side. A film about what it means to search for hope in a place that has already given so much of itself to the world.
About Julian's art:
Julian Rozzell makes art to escape from cynicism. His work channels memory, nostalgia, surrealism, and possibility through a distinctly Black lens, using abstraction to carry what words cannot. Colorful, figurative, and fragmented, his paintings have a particular pull toward social justice movements of his early childhood, and the edges of Black punk and alternative culture.
