Sentences with phrase «black identity»

, an exhibition that examines evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through rare historical printed media shown in dialogue with contemporary works of art.

The show pairs historical printed media with contemporary works to explore evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 onward.

Much of the subject matter of these works centers on black identity, fertility, and how landscape both informs and provides a backdrop to these themes.

He's interested primarily in the investigation of the construction of black identity through popular culture in the 17th and 18th century but also in the more recent times.

Obviously the choices have special relevance for black identity.

Her work often explores important topics such as contemporary black identity, queer theory, and the power of human language, seen through video, performance, writing and other new media.

Black identity also gets physical, and the results are not often pretty.

This upcoming show highlights two African artists whose practices subtly investigate the politics of a global black identity in quite different ways.

This exhibition examines evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through contemporary works of art and rare historical printed media.

Created in 1997, Wedge evolved from a commercial gallery into a nonprofit organization, exhibiting photo - based work with a strong focus on exploring black identity and the African diaspora.

When this work was made, Himid was at the centre of the British Black Arts Movement — the wider developments of which were examined in «The Place Is Here» — which asked urgent questions about black identity and cultural representation against a backdrop of racial tension and divisive politics.

Jefferson Pinder, a nationally acclaimed video / performance artist, seeks to find black identity through the most dynamic circumstances.

All throughout my undergrad I worked with issues around black identity and culture, and when I came to OCAD to do my Masters I started reading a bunch of different texts, and then really focused on black masculinity.

Such is «Black Eye: The 21st Century Black Identity Experience,» a show of 26 black artists organized by Nicola Vassell, a former director of Deitch Projects and Pace Gallery.

Her 2007 book, Picturing the New Negro: Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity, won the Vasari Award for best book in art history from the Dallas Museum of Art in 2008.

«I understood the the importance of Romare Bearden's collages as narratives celebrating black identity, but I wanted something more radical.

Integrating visual cues from black folk art, the Renaissance, and comic books, among others, he addresses black identity and representation with figures that are «unequivocally, emphatically black.»

Made in the Middle: Constructing Black Identities across the African Diaspora, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology 3, Winter 2015, Chelsey Kivland, Teaching Exhibition, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 15, 2014 - March 15,2015.

The series serves as a platform for an expansive discourse that explores how creatives confront the complexities associated with black identity on the African continent and across the Diaspora through their artistic practice.

«Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist», The New York Times, November 18, 2005, p. E37 Dederko, Dean.

A first New York trip, in 1994, seems to have concentrated ideas and inspired themes of Blackness and Black identity which introduced new visual references into his work.

On the occasion of his graduate residency, Paul Maheke selects Tongues Untied (1989) by Marlon Riggs, which investigates gay black identity in New York in the late 1980s.

Yet there is also growing anti-racist effort, «new white consciousness» as well as new black identity.

Working with digital media, film, and installation, Syms examines the construction and performance of black identity as a response to the experience of surveillance and consumer culture, while operating publication platforms such as Dominica Publishing, a press that has published and distributed work by Laurie Anderson, Diamond Stingily, and Hannah Black.

Montpelier Arts Center features two new exhibitions this February: Re-Invention by Winston Harris and Narratives in Black Identity by Antonio McAfee, Stephen Towns, and Tiffany Jones.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

March 31, 2018 • Hear songs from a Chicago rapper who examines black identity, another single from Belly after a 22 - year hiatus, and a few artists who stood out at SXSW.

ohn Trengove's South African coming - of - age drama, The Wound is a visceral and powerfully done film about queer Black identity and its intersections with Ukwaluka, the rite of passage for male Xhosa teens — a rural tribe in the country.

You can not separate black identity from Black Panther, but from the specific comes the universal, because Black Panther is a story about a family and a damning secret.

Her work includes examinations of how black identity is differentially constructed across multiple contexts and informs achievement outcomes, how black people's perceptions of opportunity vary within space and influence academic orientation, and how black educational resilience and vulnerability is structured by social, institutional, and historical forces.

According to a report leaked by Foreign Policy, the FBI's counterterrorism division determined that «black identity extremists» were a violent group of domestic terrorists.

In answer to that question, which she once asked an interviewer, Camae Ayewa, a.k.a. Moor Mother, has been producing a style of experimental music that attempts to recover «a pre-modern black identity.»

And in doing so, it positions Black identity as central to a broad, cosmopolitan humanism.»

The Ogden's display materialises through its acknowledgment of this tension: those who have considered their art as framing their own unique sense of self, and those who have used it for the purposes of forging a collective black identity.

Syms's personal reflection on the mechanisms of production of black identity resonates poignantly with the works in the group exhibition, which challenge, with a rebellious attitude, the boundaries — physical and psychological — of the space assigned to femininity.

It is a shift away from Western notions of Blackness towards a decidedly Black aesthetic envisioning a fresh perspective on Black identity past, present and future.

His work has since explored a variety of issues including black identity, diaspora, migration and capital.

Artists working in two dimensions such as Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, and Wangechi Mutu have gained currency by creating work that makes the construction of black identity -LSB-.....]

Damas, a founder of the Négritude movement of the 1930s, sought to affirm black identity in opposition to French colonialism.

For slippery black identities, also look at reviews of David Hammons, Gary Simmons, and Lorna Simpson.

Her potent observations are no less topical today and, in fact, even more urgent as we routinely bear witness on social media and news outlets to the dualisms between black identity and white identity, rich and poor, females and males.

And in it, Mercer identified a problem: that the art world expects black artists make work about an «essential black identity or experience.»

He came to prominence in the early 1980s as a founding member of the Sankofa Film / Video Collective, a seminal U.K. group that explored new ways of representing black identity.

Using traditional methods of photography, such as studio portraiture, and more contemporary methods, such as appropriation, Gardenhire's work traces a «mis - history» in an attempt to redefine and reclaim black identity through a variety of imagery to reshape perceptions of black humanity at large.

It's the outgrowth of the artist's travels to South Carolina, Swaziland, Jamaica, and South Africa — as well as her explorations of her own Brooklyn neighborhood — in an effort to capture a fragmented black identity across the African diaspora.

Lawrence adopted his characteristic simple forms and abstract elements from African art, linking that aesthetic tradition to present - day black identity.