From Dawoud Bey and Lorna Simpson to Sondra Perry and Kerry James Marshall a multiethnic group of artists explores what it means to be seen not seen or erased in the world through formal experimentations with the figureGoing Dark brings together a multigenerational group of contemporary artists who engage the ampampquotsemivisibleampampquot figurerepresentations that are partially or fully obscured including in some cases literally darkenedand suggests that the concept of going dark is a tool that has been used by artists for decades to probe enduring questions surrounding both the potential and the discontents of social visibility. Across mediumspainting photography sculpture video and installationGoing Dark names charts and makes meaning of the semivisible figure arguing for its significance in contemporary art as a genre of unique conceptual and formal power. Approximately 120 works in all of these mediums by more than 25 artists are featured.Essays by such curators as Legacy Russell and Jordan Carter and professor Abbe Schriber among others contextualize the histories that inspired these works.