Sentences with phrase «black experience»

This journey has sparked her passion for painting specifically informed by discourse concerning black women and black experiences in American society.

It owes a lot of that to its thoughtful take on producing politically relevant themes and pushing discussions about the worldwide black experience.

She knew «in a stroke of inspiration» that she'd found her story: black experience as lived on either side of the Atlantic.

Marshall's paintings employ a gravitas that centers on black experiences.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture advances the knowledge of the global black experience through dynamic programs and exhibitions.

Studded with Ofili's infamous balls of dung, The Naked Soul of Captain Shit and the Legend of the Black Stars is illustrative of the artist's unique pictorial language which integrates the urban black experience with his own African heritage.

Get Out is an eye - opener equaling Do the Right Thing in expressing a contemporary black experience amid white privilege.

Adams is a New York — based multi-disciplinary artist exploring black experiences and the influence of popular culture on self - image and self - perception.

While Lewis is mostly known as an abstractionist, he painted social - realist works depicting black experience in his early career.

Marshall creates large - scale paintings that explore African American culture from the Civil Rights to today, drawing from and weaving a history of black experience into his narratives.

In «Alright,» Lamar channels the struggles of the modern black experience in America while also recognizing hundreds of years of struggle that led to this point.

But to spend this much time on 7 percent of the schools in the country, while ignoring the historical and present black experience in the other 93 percent of schools should be beneath the NAACP.

Hip - hop had a profound effect on the burgeoning multiculturalism that Ofili's work reflects, drawing the urban black experience into a cultural territory that had traditionally excluded it.

DK: We're not boxes though, articulating black experience isn't a box, we're articulating our truth, we're human beings... #oscars #oscarsredcarpet

His paintings, even when abstract, portray black experience — a black artist made them.

Gates proposes new ways of honouring and remembering Black experience and explores the potential of these spaces through music, dance, video, sculpture and painting.

The exhibition is one which questions each member's personal histories, cultural background and beliefs as a means of unsettling the idea of a homogenised black experience and its acceptance by white art institutions and discourse.

The range of works in the exhibition sheds light on the ways in which Lawrence drew upon and transformed contemporary models for representing black experience in America.

Using her training as a stage designer she's created a scenario that with wit and verve addresses black experience.

The Schomburg is devoted to exploring the global black experience through educational and public programming and the preservation of materials reflecting the diaspora, including manuscripts and rare books, photographs, and video and audio recordings.

Overall, despite the traumatic nature of much black experience in his country, Marshall tends to focus on positive portrayals.

There is a particular way of articulating color and rhythm in painting that might be the outcome of specifically black experience, but to the extent that's true, it need not be insisted on; it just emerges.

While Third World countries experience oppression externally from the United States, we as blacks experience oppression internally as victims of racism.

Martin Luther King, Jr., was a product of the southern black experience: son of a Baptist preacher, graduate of Morehouse College, holder of a Ph.D. degree in systematic theology, black preacher, prophet in word and deed — Martin Luther King, Jr., came on too strong for a nation that had from its very inception used so much of its energy in declaring black people invisible, irrelevant, null and void.

Black theology has emphasized the inseparable link between black experience and black history, especially the history of struggle against racist oppression.

Tipping is a fresh voice who has established a great sense of atmosphere, and more importantly, he's shown that he can tell stories about a more stereotypically black experience with nuance.

Representation of historical black experience on - screen was something noteworthy from the movie.

Jordan Peele spends most of Get Out relating the experience of watching a horror movie, always being on your guard, to the daily black experience in America.

At the other end of the artistic spectrum, Jenkins does the impossible: He informs the viewer about the impoverished black experience in America whilst representing the broader experience of the adolescent trying to become secure in his or her identity.

Like «A World Apart» and «Cry Freedom,» the movie concentrates on a central character who is white (because the movie could not have been financed with a black hero), but «A Dry White Season» has much more of the South African black experience in it than the other two films.

In 1994 his first published short story Thirteen appeared in the IBWA's River Crossing, Voices of the Diaspora — an Anthology of the International Black Experience.

Racing at night - an already daunting and pitch black experience in the original game - is amplified in VR.

Contemporary artists Robert Colescott (1925 - 2009), Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), and Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) are distinguished by their attention to a history of representation, which they re-visit and revise to reflect on individual and collective Black experience.

If Stuart Davis or Charles Sheeler updated Cubism for a demotic America, Bearden updates Davis for the mid-century black experience.

The symbols in word, location, date, color, and character reflect my thoughts on the cyclical black experience post slavery in the colonized world, our roles, lack of responsibility, twisted self perception, self hatred, and our relationship to the dominant white supremacist media machine.»

The Testament Project: a photographic exploration and re-conception of the contemporary black experience by Kris Graves

While there is no doubt that Pindell's practice embodies the traumatic collective and personal histories of African American life — the rough surfaces and undulating textures seem to animate the rhythms of rupture and chaos that have long structured black experience — one can not ignore the range of other possibilities that the rich surfaces of these early works express so profoundly.

But then performance has a way of insisting on what you were happy to leave invisible, much like black experience in white America.

«The idea is that there is no one black experience in America, but all of these artists have been directly affected by both magazines.»

Covering over 30 years, Walker work captures the local Black experience using abstractionism, surrealism, social documentary and street photography.

Twentieth century black experience, and some of its most important figurative representations, are central to the show.

merges real and hypothesized mythological black experiences set within contemporary black environments.

This retrospective of Himid's paintings — along with concurrent shows of her work at Spike Island, Bristol and Nottingham Contemporary — reveals the subversive ways in which she has put black experience into western art history since the 1980s.

The 25 monumental paintings on view challenge a Western painting tradition that historically erases or misrepresents people of color, offering narratives centered on Black experiences and perspectives.

In other words, the film is yet another look at the African American and black experience through the eyes and concerns of a virtuous white man.

Inaugurating the new space will be Kris Graves: The Testament Project, a riveting photography series that skillfully chronicles the artist's motivation to capture a «re-conception of the contemporary black experience.»