>"The curator and artist discuss Aldridge’s first exhibition as the newly appointed Visual Arts Curator at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles"

Blackpentecostal Breath [2016], which led me to realize that there is a particular mode of freedom-making in Black faith, particularly in Black Pentecostalism,

I like to create works that hold many different ideas and one thing I really love about Sermon for Longing in Blue is that, even though it has an awkward exterior, it’s quite sensuous: I consider it an almost-erotic object. Played on the saxophone, the Vandross track creates a haunting, lingering echo.