Rodney McMillian and Hugo McCloud are included in The Poetics of Dimensions at the ICA San Francisco curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah on view October 25th, 2024 through February 23, 2025.

The Poetics of Dimensions illuminates artists who transform everyday objects—durags, shoelaces, felt, leather, single-use plastic—into powerful artistic expressions. Grounded in exploration and experimentation, these works alchemize “non-art” materials into poetic landscapes. Like poetry, visual art has the capacity to dive beneath the surface and reveal new perspectives on invisible forces around us. This exhibition finds the beauty in the unnoticed and the extraordinary in the mundane.

Each work on view is an homage to overlooked histories—amplifying voices, perspectives, and materials long consigned to the periphery. Artists pull from their cultural heritage, personal narratives, and social realities to forge a unique aesthetic language that resonates across boundaries. The Poetics of Dimensions encourages viewers to explore the dynamic relationship between form, function, and meaning and reconsider materials that shape our world.