Sentences with phrase «american identity issues»

The subtle variations of black hues and tonalities relate to African American identity issues and the role of the color black in modern art, as seen in the artwork of Kasimir Malevich and Frank Stella.

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While these contentious issues have already generated a heightened interest in Pope Francis» words and the American bishops» public statements, they also call on young Catholics to reflect more deeply about the seriousness of their faith and Catholic identity.

by Walter Chaw Arriving right smack dab in the latter half of a decade in American cinema that saw digital «reality» supplant filmic «reality» (and appearing the same year as James Cameron's Forrest Gump: Titanic), Hong Kong legend John Woo's high - camp Face / Off directly (and presciently) addresses issues of identity theft, terrorism, and the digital corruption of reality and indirectly addresses Woo's émigré influence on the modern action film.

Dramatic film has long been fascinated with issues of identity, but they've rarely been explored with the degree of eloquence and heartbreaking beauty as in Barry Jenkins» masterful «Moonlight,» one of the essential American films of 2016.

American Muslim college students in Ohio (front row: left to right) Halimah Muhammad (in brown hijab), Fatima Shendy, Zaina Salem, Ruba Abu - Amara, (back row: left to right) Arkann Al - Khalilee (in gray hijab), Nora Hmeidan and Lama Abu - Amara appear in an image that was featured in Uhuru, a Kent State University magazine in an issue on identity and race.

Now we round out our coverage by exploring two disparate stories from Fellows Daniel Flores (Viva Diva) and Missy Whiteman -LRB-(Going) Back Home), which straddle issues of gender identity, depression, and the challenges of reclaiming Native American storytelling.

As an emergency outreach counselor immediately following the tragic event — and in her subsequent role as founding executive director of Mustard Seed Generation, a nonprofit organization with a mission of encouraging Korean American youth to develop all aspects of a healthy identity — Kim has addressed an array of mental health issues in the Korean American community, including suicidal tendencies, depression, anxiety, perfectionism, low self - esteem, body image issues, substance abuse, and identity confusion.

The results revealed that many factors such as family life, experiences, exposure to diversity, and professional identity issues are inconsequential in faculty mentors» approaches to mentoring African American undergraduate students.

Asian American Education — Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages Edited by Xue Lan Rong and Russell Endo

For more information about George Washington and the Newport letters, religion in American history, and issues of faith and identity, check out these additional resources from Facing History and Ourselves and from other organizations.

Her assemblage works, mixed - media objects, and installations explore race, history, spirituality, politics, gender issues, and African American identity.

The works challenge stereotypes and explores issues that affect American Indians including corruption and violence in the casino industry, racism, addiction, and questions of identity.

2010 Schwager, Michael, Personal Identities / Contemporary Portraits, University Art Gallery Sonoma State University, November / December Schuster, Dana, A-List Artist, New York Post, 29 December Siverio, Ida, Kehinde's R - evolution, October, pp. 24 - 27 Watson, Simon, Kehinde Wiley, Whitewall Fall 2010, pp. 119 - 123 Halperin, Julia, Kehinde Wiley Now Represented in New York by Sean Kelly Gallery, New York Observer, 17 September Jackson, Brian Keith, A World Stage, Juxtaposed: Kehinde Wiley Between Africa and China, Leap No. 03, pp. 86 - 93 PAFA's Summer Surprises and More, SanArt, 1 August Feldman, Melissa, World Cup Chic Kehinde Wiley's Fancy Footwork, New York Times Magazine, 2 June Loszach, Fabien, Bling - Bling, Everytime I Come Around, Esse Arts + Opinions, No. 69, Spring / Summer Badinella, Chiara and Fabrizio Affronti, Grandi Maestri, Fonte Perenne, La Casana No. 1, January - March, pp. 26 - 29 100 Artisti da Scommetterci / 100 Artists to Bet On, Arte Magazine, Milan, Italy, August, pp. 120 - 140 Hunt, Kena and Watson, Simon, Kehinde Wiley, Vogue Italia, October Dreyfuss, Joel, Meet the Root 100, 2010 Edition, The Root unveils its latest list of young African - American pace setters and game changers, The Root, 10 October Garfield, Joey, Kehinde Wiley, Juxtapoz January, pp. 46 - 61 Karcher, Eva, The Colours of Africa: Art Beyond the Primitive, The Mini International Vol.34, Issue 2, pp. 36 - 41 Krentcil, Faran, First Look: Puma Africa, Nylon Magazine, 16 March

Investigating the hybridization of Mexican - American identity and the culture of consumerism, Mondini - Ruiz» sculptural installation will further focus on issues surrounding border politics, racial and class interactions, and cultural tourism.

Glenn Ligon on The Great Bieri Based in New York, Glenn Ligon is critically recognized for his text - based paintings that draw on American history and literature and explore issues of race and identity.

Greene enjoys exploring photographic processes that engage issues about the body, memory, the absorption of culture, and the ever - shifting identity of African Americans.

American conceptual artist Barbara Kruger is best known for her layered photographs, featuring provocative statements on issues like commercial culture, feminism, and identity politics.

From his many return trips to China, Chen has created digital images and video projections reflecting American and Chinese attitudes toward the twenty - first century role of media and technology and identity issues.

A celebrated artist and educator, Greene enjoys exploring photographic processes that engage issues about the body, memory, and the ever - shifting identity of African Americans.

By re-appropriating American culture through found objects, she questions social, political and cultural issues about sex, gender identity and marginalized groups.

One of the most celebrated American conceptual artists, Barbara Kruger is best known for layering photographs with provocative statements on issues surrounding commercial culture, feminism, and identity politics.

Re — al — ized features drawings, photography, video and paintings that tackle relevant and provocative issues of African - American ethnic identity, coming from six distinctive voices.

With the pitch and timbre of an accomplished storyteller, Carrie Mae Weems examines issues of race, gender politics, and African - American identity in her photography.

Johnson, who got his start as a photographer, works across media — including video, sculpture, painting, and installation — using a wide variety of materials to address issues of African American identity and history.

She also co-curated the exhibition Fatal Love: South Asian American Contemporary Art Now, as well as coordinated two editions of Corona Plaza: Center of Everywhere, which commissioned eight artists to develop public art works that engage local residents on issues of neighborhood history and identity as well as tensions around its various transformations.

Punchbag added further complexities to questions of raced, gendered and cultural identities raised by Glenn Ligon's Skin Tight: Muhammed Ali Text (1995)[Figs.85 - 86], a punchbag and text piece which specifically sought to address «how black men have used boxing to confront issues of black American identity» and «the construction of masculinity in relation to questions of violence, the commodification of black subjects, sexuality and resistance.»

At No. 3 is Donna Haraway, the distinguished American professor emerita whose writing is central to debates on identity, feminism and ecology and other inclusions are French philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist Bruno Latour (9) and the writers Judith Butler (48) and Chris Krauss, (77) both of whom have been a key influence on the focus of so many of today's artists on issues of gender and sexuality.

Michel's style exists in the same space as a number of high - profile African - American artists — writer Paul Beatty, artist Kara Walker, even rapper Kendrick Lamar — who use racial assumptions and issues of identity in open - ended, ambiguous, and non-preachy ways.

Published by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, the issue «celebrates the artist's power to capture, convey, and make visible the particularities of marginalized or misrepresented identity,» and also includes the work of Aida Muluneh and Leila Alaoui, among others.

This exhibition aims to convey the diversity of the Latin American experiences and identities within the UK through various cultural and artistic expressions and create a dialogue around different issues.

One of the most important and celebrated contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has for over thirty years investigated issues of race, gender, and class, and her artwork continues to raise important questions about cultural identity and the politics of representation.

This exhibition faces critical issues of race head - on, exploring and engaging issues of identity for black Americans as explored by an emerging generation of innovative artists,» said Amy Sadao, Director of ICA.

González - Torres is a Cuban - born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor of journey, and the private versus the public domain, whose work appears both at AIC and in Art AIDS America Chicago.

Opening: Emma Amos at Ryan Lee Ryan Lee in this show surveys the art of Emma Amos, an artist and educator known for her vivid figurative works that explore issues of African American identity and narrative, often through the lens of both art history and popular culture.

Felix Gonzalez - Torres, original name Félix González - Torres, (born Nov. 26, 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba — died Jan. 9, 1996, Miami, Fla., U.S.), Cuban - born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor of journey, and the private versus the public domain.

Drawing from the male - dominated field of Land Art infused with her political sensibility and recurring references to her Latin American heritage, her experiments in film and video are celebrated for their prescient and piecing take on such relevant issues as campus sexual assault, environmentalism, and the challenges of preserving identity in a homogenizing society.

The panel will consider his work not only in aesthetic terms, but also in relation to issues of gender and American identity.

Over the last decade, the American artist Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976) has become known for powerful works that explore issues of identity, media, race, and popular culture.

A founding member of the artists» collective REPOhistory, Kuoni has curated and co-curated numerous transdisciplinary exhibitions on issues such as contemporary Native American identity and colonial, 19th - century portraiture; democratic, participatory processes; artistic and social networks; new notions of transient and temporary spaces; or agency.

Durham focuses on the foundation of US identities, but he avoids reducing the issues and keeps us asking what the term Native American — which was only popularized as an «ethnic» or racial identity in early - 19th - century US — really means and how it can limit the imagination of non-Native American audiences.

Their projects deal with issues of hospitality, hosting and porousness of identity; while often working in open collaboration with storytellers, lawyers specialising in authorship and foreigner rights, an American auctioneer and a group of chess players.

Featuring more than fifty artworks ranging in date from the early 1930s to our own time, Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA demonstrates how artists interested in issues of identity have negotiated a vast array of European, African, and American visual - cultural forms to redefine what it means to make a portrait.

A Los Angeles based artist who grew up in the city's South Central neighborhood, Villalobos combines references of high and low culture to interrogate issues of American social structures, power relations, capitalism, and identity.

This year American writer Roxane Gay, whose work deals with issues of identity, gender, race, and sexuality, will deliver the lecture, followed by a conversation with poet and writer Saeed Jones.

Born in Chicago in 1977, Johnson lives and works in New York and is an African - American artist considered central in the debate revolving around the issues of identity, integration and memory.

A show organized by the Rubell Family Collection of Miami, «30 Americans» is described as focusing «on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture.»

Tangible presences that powerfully connect with the viewer, Lovell's works invoke issues of cultural heritage and personal identity as they imaginatively reflect the lives of forgotten Americans.

he work of Glenn Ligon, Mark Bradford, Paul Pfeiffer, Kehinde Wiley, and Wangechi Mutu touches upon issues of race, culture, and identity, including African - American identity.

Felix Gonzalez - Torres, Cuban - born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor......

Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi - American conceptual artist whose work is influenced by his cultural origins, not so much in terms of identity, but as a means through which to engage issues that affect cultural production and the loss of culture.