The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, is pleased to present Weapons and White Music, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Jefferson Pinder, from February 2 through April 27, 2024. 

Marking his first solo exhibition in Detroit, Pinder taps into potent themes of his twenty-five- year career.   

Weapons and White Music is an eclectic curation of objects and videos that places a finger onto the pulse of contemporary Americana and pop-culture. Sampling from the history of films and popular music, Pinder delves into the subconscious of race in the everyday. In the context of pop themes, he displays a selection of weapons that were inspired by revolution and surrender. 

The exhibition will premiere the work Greatest Hits, 2024, and feature Revival, 2013, a music installation.

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ABOUT JEFFERSON PINDER

Jefferson Pinder (b. 1970, Washington, D.C.) has produced highly praised performance-based and multidisciplinary work for over a decade. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group shows including exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, The High Museum in Atlanta, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and Tate Modern in London, UK. In 2017, Pinder received a Guggenheim Fellowship; he also won a 2016 USA Joyce Fellowship Award in the field of performance, and in 2017 the Moving Image Acquisition Award. Most recently, he was named a 2021 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow. 

Pinder received a BA in Theatre and an MFA in Mixed Media from the University of Maryland, and studied at the Asolo Theatre Conservatory in Sarasota, FL. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland from 2003-2011. He is currently Professor of Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.