Adebunmi Gbadebo's "Portraits" Grapple With Historical Legacy of Slavery

New York City's Claire Oliver Gallery is reopening to the public with a solo exhibition by artist Adebunmi Gbadebo. In her series of over 40 portraits for "A Dilemma of Inheritance," Gbadebo draws from two former plantations in South Carolina -- both called True Blue -- to explore concepts of heredity and the evolution of memory and forgetting. A central material for Gbadebo is the usage of human hair, which carries the DNA of the people whose story she is telling. The works are rendered as pigm...