Zero Dollar Bill: The Prints of Imar Lyman

Presented by Millennium Arts Salon
Curated by Jarvis DuBois and Lauren Davidson
Saturday, September 3–Sunday, October 30, 2022.

Imar Lyman [Hutchins]

Imar Lyman [Hutchins] is an artist known primarily for his mastery of collage. This solo exhibition, Zero Dollar Bill, is the first time Imar’s prolific printmaking practice has been exhibited independently from his other works.
Imar is an autodidact artist based in Washington, DC. He works primarily in collage, mixed-media and printmaking. Imar’s portraits combine vintage black magazines, hate mail, and other historical documents as well as found objects, tissue paper, and new materials. He imagines that people themselves are collages—amalgams of countless disparate fragments and inputs. He “remixes” his subjects in new and often Afro-futuristic ways, but always drawing from, or challenging, a historical notion.
In acknowledgment of the impact on Washington’s cultural landscape that MAS has had for over twenty years, Imar has created a special limited-edition serigraph print entitled Zero Dollar Bill, which is the centerpiece of this eponymous exhibition. The project invites a critique of the commodification and materialism of the so-called “art world” and an interrogation of our conceptions of value, currency, and money itself.

Curated by Jarvis DuBois and Lauren Davidson. Presented by Millennium Arts Salon (MAS) in collaboration with International Arts & Artists at Hillyer.