LatchKey Gallery is pleased to present A Muffled Sound Underwater, an exhibition that critically engages the cultural and historical perceptions of the color black through the lens of abstraction and how these preconceived notions directly/indirectly transfer to blackness.

The exhibition is a culmination of a three-year investigation between Alteronce Gumby and Tariku Shiferaw whose visual language echo a parallel in their use of color and abstraction to discuss culture. Through their analysis, Gumby and Shiferaw bring together artists Dominique Duroseau, Torkwase Dyson, Tsedaye Makonnen and M Marvin Touré whose work share a commonality in relation to the color black or to the oppositional disposition of Blackness in multiple western societies.