TOO: An Orientation Of Spirit

A solo exhibition catalog of paintings by artist Melody Croft. The heart of this exhibition entitled, TOO: An Orientation of Spirit, is the word TOO, meaning ALSO. Empathy resides within this small word. TOO is the absent but implied word at the end of the statement Black Lives Matter and is the artistic lens woven throughout Croft’s exhibit of fifty-six paintings that focus on African Americans. The exhibition narrates a story of common humanity and provides a space to compare and contrast our existences and consider circumstances from another’s point of view. La Ruchala Murphy, Director of OCAF, writes that Croft’s “art provokes the viewer to think about how we ‘too’ deal with the subjects of race and gender, what unites and divides us, and how we can be part of the solution.”