Aaron R. Turner: Archive, Legacy & Empathy: Remembering Fazendeville

apcampbe
Dec 9, 2025
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The U.N.O. Gallery is honored to present a selection of photographs by Aaron R. Turner. The explores the linear movement of light, desire, and time. In the pursuit of abstraction to create speculative narratives, Turner uses various photographic techniques and processes, including reflective and archival materials, and in-camera and darkroom manipulation.

This exhibition combines works from multiple series within and outside of the Black Alchemy series, including Black Alchemy: Remembering Fazendeville and is a non-representational response to and visual analysis of objective and subjective ideas in photography as it relates to the individual lived experience of everyday life and internal contemplations.

Aaron Turner is an artist and educator born and raised in the Arkansas Delta. He uses photography as a transformative process to understand the ideas of home and resilience; he also uses the 4x5 view camera to create still-life studies on identity, history, blackness as material, abstraction, and the Archive. His most recent book, Moves from the Archive, highlights the varied approach to image making, fusing elements of still life, appropriation, and painting to comment on the complex nature of Black American history and representation.

Website: https://www.aaronturner.studio/

The exhibition opens on December 13 and continues through January 4, 2026. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, December 13, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00–5:00 PM.

Exhibition Dates: December 13th through January 4th.

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 13th, from 6:00 - 9:00 PM

Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12-5 or by appointment

UNO St. Claude Gallery | 2429 St. Claude Avenue

If you would like more information about this exhibition, please email UNO Gallery Director, Tony Campbell, apcampbe@uno.edu