Exhibition curator: Harriet Green

Exhibition Statement by Tyrone Geter:

“My mother once told me, sometimes she felt like she ‘didn’t have no life.’ That statement, made with so much honesty, conviction, and passion, yet free of even a hint of self-pity has throughout my career been one of the guiding principles of not only how I live my life, and relate to other people, but has also profoundly influenced the philosophy of my art. In the early nineteen hundreds when she grew up, life was a struggle. Survival was day-to-day and filled with the perils of discrimination, poverty, illiteracy and a host of other dangers inherited from a lifetime of being poor, black and undereducated. Yet she survived and passed her legacy of love, compassion, hope and a sense of ‘doing the right thing’ onto her children. My work finds its foundation in her legacy. It refers to the trials of youth and the struggles of the aged. It seeks to speak to, and for those, with no voice. My work embodies compassion, hope, justice, and perseverance— concepts I learned from my mother.”