Working around issues
of black male identity in the exhibition Tailor, Singer, Striker, Dandy (2011) at the Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester Art Gallery she selected from the large West African textile collection in the gallery's stores and reinterpreted the materials to express contemporary and historic male identity through appearance and clothes.
Question Bridge: Black Males is a documentary - style video art installation that aims to represent and
redefine black male identity in America.
Fahamu Pecou is an American contemporary artist and scholar who explores
black male identity in art, performance and popular culture
Todd Gray in Breath / Breadth: Contemporary
American Black Male Identity at Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College, Virginia September 3 to December 11, 2015.
The high / low dialogue refracted Grace Wales Bonner's ongoing preoccupation
with black male identity, but she pursued it with less rigour, more joy than usual.
«While «Blak Origin Moment» dissects police brutality, rape culture and the limits of socially
prescribed black male identity, «Womxn Workers of the World Unite!»
A mashup of «Some Like It Hot» (leering rooster - in - the - henhouse voyeurism) and «Glee» (peppy musical interludes), that, on the plus side, grapples with the potent issue of
young black male identity...
The information about the show frames it within the very contemporary context of what is happening in America right now, relating to
how black male identity is represented and treated.
CREATED BY CHRIS JOHNSON, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayeté Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair, «Question Bridge: Black Males» harnesses video technology to connect more than 150 men from across the country in conversations
about black male identity and issues of race, masculinity, family and community.
Is he joined by Hank Willis Thomas, who has struggled
with black male identity — and now serves up a «chorus line» titled Alive with Pleasure!?
3c) so that along with a certain conception
of black male identity, it helped the gangsta - rap scam get going
While Anderson deftly dissects police brutality, rape culture and the limits of socially
prescribed black male identity, Bowers tackles issues of trans liberation, labor equity and immigrant rights.
Jordan Casteel, a young painter whose environmental portraits
explore black male identity, joined Casey Kaplan gallery earlier this month.
Question Bridge: Black Males A 5 - channel video installation by Artist Hank Willis Thomas January 27 — May 1, 2016 Opening Reception: January 27 The UMCA is pleased to present Question Bridge: Black Males, a five - channel video installation that aims to represent and redefine
black male identity in America, and powerfully exposes the incredible diversity of thought, character, and identity within the black American male demographic, disrupting traditional generalizations.
Through his exploration of
black male identity, Smith challenges the reader with truths that are powerful and urgent.
This project was created to abolish monolithic notions of
black male identity, depicting instead a more nuanced and multi-faceted whole image and narrative to the conception of black males.
Breath / Breadth: Contemporary American
Black Male Identity, explores wide - ranging visual expressions, defying the impulse to hone in on singular, cohesive definitions because it is precisely the impulse to categorize that encourages racial profiling.
Makes videos and short feature films on big themes such as sexuality, beauty, identity, race and masculinity and homosexuality in relation to
black male identity.
Willis Thomas again uses advertising language to talk about commerce and the economy and its relationship to
the black male identity.
Informed by a coming of age during our country's violent political transition, his practice grapples with
black male identity, body and place within a post-apartheid context.
Exploring
black male identity, Casteel's paintings have garnered critical attention.
Depicting the black male figure and the complexity of
black male identity, the paintings explore masculinity, spirit, and humanity.
And finally, in the work «An Unidentified Jamaican Boy Uses the Puma H Street Running Shoe to Run for his Freedom 2003/2005 ″ Willis Thomas again uses advertising language to talk about commerce and the economy and its relationship to
the black male identity.
Question Bridge: Black Males is a transmedia art project that seeks to represent and redefine
Black male identity in America, created by Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayeté Ross - Smith, and Kamal Sinclair.
Through questions and answers that are pointed, poignant, humorous, painful, and revealing, these men begin to redefine
black male identity in America.