Sentences with phrase «black women artists based»

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His third novel, Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2001), is set at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station and is based on the life of Billy Gould, a convict artist who has a love affair with a young black woman in 1828.

ALISON SAAR, «Bearing» @ Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco Los Angeles - based artist Alison Saar explores African American culture and history, including the legacy of slavery, spiritual traditions and the generational experiences of black women.

The Los Angeles - based artist utilizes the washboard «as a symbol of the unresolved legacy of slavery and the subsequent oppressive systems facing Black Americans today, particularly Black women.»

Through subtle processes of image reconstruction, African - American artist Hank Willis Thomas complicates seemingly simple meanings behind image - based adverts, revealing their capacity to have much greater power than selling products but also play a disturbing role in constructing and reinforcing social prejudice — with an emphasis on the portrayal of black men and white women in America.

She was as much a muse to herself as she was to others, including New York - based artist Mickalene Thomas, who includes Kitt alongside several other black women in her show

«Speaking out: Siting the Voice in Contemporary Asian Art», Courtauld Institute of Art and Kings College, University of London 2017 Conceptualism — Intersectional Readings, International Framings Conference, AHRC Black Artists and Modernism project in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum, NL, 7 - 9 December 2017 Trinh T Minh - ha Symposium, ICA London, 3 December 2017 Women in Collections Symposium, Contemporary Art Society / Sackler CPD Programme, Leeds City Art Gallery, 19 October 2017 Deviant Researching Symposium, part of Demodernising the Collection, Van Abbemuseum, NL, 21 - 23 September 2016 Now and Then, Here and There Conference, AHRC Black Artists and Modernism, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UAL / Clore auditorium, Tate Britain, 6 - 8 October 2016 Kung Fury: Contemporary Debates in Martial Arts Cinema Symposium, AHRC Martial Arts Studies Network, Birmingham City University, 1 April 2015 Martial Arts Studies Conference, with Luke White, Cardiff University, 10 - 12 June 2015 How to See the World Panel discussion & book launch, with Nicholas Mirzeoff, Jon Bird, Sonia Boyce, Nadja Milner - Larsen, ICA, London 4 June 2015 (In) Direct Speech: «Chineseness» in Contemporary Art Symposium, University of Lisbon, 16 - 19 March 2014 Thinking with Berger Conference, with Juliette Kristensen, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 4 - 5 September 2014 Mega Events & Culture: Arts & Artists Engagement in Events - based Regeneration, Resistance & Research Regional Studies Association, Research Seminar, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, 17 June 2014 Image — Movement — Story Conference, University of Roehampton, 14 June 2014 SPSL / A to Y Public Lecture, MAI (Montreal Arts Interculturels / University of Concordia, Montreal QC, 12 April 2013 Inter-Asian Connections IV Conference, in the strand «Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary», Koç University, Istanbul.

A dinner with Glasgow - based women of colour will provide the centre - piece for the debut UK exhibition by iQhiya, a South African collective of black women artists.

Nov. 11, 2015 — April 3, 2016 ALISON SAAR, «Bearing» @ Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco Los Angeles - based artist Alison Saar explores African American culture and history, including the legacy of slavery, spiritual traditions and the generational experiences of black women.

Los Angeles - based artist Hayv Kahraman creates exquisite figurative paintings on large linen panels that depict a singular woman with iridescent pale skin and inky black hair.

The Los Angeles Times reports that Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, a London - based Ghanaian artist, is among the group and the first black woman to be a final candidate for the modern art prize.

Brooklyn - based artist Mickalene Thomas is known for her large - scale, rhinestone - encrusted, highly stylized collaged portraits of everyday black women, whom she calls her muses.

Seductive Subversion includes Marisol's John Wayne sculpture, commissioned by Life magazine for an issue on movies; the French sculptor, painter, and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle's eight - foot - tall Black Rosy, one of her «Nana» sculptures exploring the role of women; Rosalyn Drexler's oil and acrylic work Chubby Checker, inspired by the poster for the movie Twist around the Clock, and Home Movies, based on frames from old gangster movies; the Times Square — inspired Ampersand, a multilayered, stylized, and illuminated neon ampersand in a Plexiglas cube by Chryssa, one of the first artists to utilize neon in her work; and a seventeen - foot - long triptych by Idelle Weber.