Torkwase Dyson: Of Line and Memory is a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Ivy Wilson, an Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Northwestern University, an award-winning scholar of Black diaspora literatures and U.S. culture, and recipient of honors including the Darwin T. Turner Award and other distinctions in African American literary studies. 

Of Line and Memory draws from years of research and Dyson’s own spatial memory of navigating the waterways and urban architecture of Chicago. Using the South Shore Cultural Center, a lakeshore landmark with rich historical and architectural significance, as a point of departure, Dyson extracts, reduces, and refines architectural and visual cues into geometric shapes and painterly abstractions. According to the artist, “Of Line and Memory asks, as we move through dramatic and ever-changing geographies, what memories are stored in these new and improvisational choreographies?”.