Sentences with phrase «blackness as»

His most recent body of work, #InHonor, is a series of photo - based mixed media portraits made to honor Blackness as it exists in its various forms and speaks to the violence and destruction occurring across America, in the form of police brutality.

«I think of blackness as unquantifiable and ever expanding, and each of these artists have their own unique understanding and relationship to blackness and represent blackness in a variety of ways.»

In 2012 she founded the independent publishing company Dominica, which is «dedicated to exploring blackness as a topic, reference, and marker, and audience in visual culture.»

She currently runs DOMINICA, an imprint dedicated to exploring blackness as a topic, reference, marker and audience in visual culture.

Danielle Wu, Blackness As The Original Technology: American Artist's «Black Gooey Universe» Filthy Dreams, February 9, 2018.

American Artist's legal name change serves as the basis of an ambivalent practice — one of declaration: by insisting on the visibility of blackness as descriptive of an american artist, and erasure: anonymity in virtual spaces where «American Artist» is an anonymous name, unable to be googled or validated by a computer as a person's name.

It brings together a tightly focused selection of new and recent work that offers blackness as subject, form, process, emotion, and politics.

For me, that is blackness as a mode.

More than just a critique of the perception of blackness as evil, Perry, particularly with her inclusion of Kitt's purring performance, points to a subversive embrace of badness as a means to regain agency.

Yet, one of the things you write in the exhibition catalog is that the show explores blackness as «a way of being in the world.»

Taylor's investment in blackness as heterogeneous — in class, in hue, and locality — insists upon the complexities of black life of black people within the visual scape of the city that was / is.

The artist's largest solo exhibition to date explores blackness as a color, an idea, an identity, a method, and a political movement.

In contrast to my own experience, when it turns to matters of personhood, the art in the exhibition tends to show blue blackness as a source of pride, or pain inflicted not by colorism, but by white racism.

Ojih Odutola's fixation on the surface of the skin instantly challenges the notion of blackness as, first and foremost, racial indicator.

Foregrounding Black bodies, identity, and culture through photography, filmmaking, and music, he works beyond the gallery walls to «make blackness as universal as whiteness.»

By many accounts, BAFC was also the expression of a generation of diasporic subjects that seized the term of political blackness as an identity marker as well as a claim to political visibility.

Rodney McMillian: The Black Show, on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (February 3 — August 14, 2016), brings together a tightly focused selection of new and recent paintings, sculptures, and videos that deal with blackness as subject, form, process, emotion, and politics.

Unifying dreams fracture into the ghosts of slave - era nightmares, notably in the exacting prints of Kara Walker, who subverts the cut - out silhouettes of picture books with historic barbarities; and in the text - based work of Glenn Ligon, whose stencilled confessional I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background fades inexorably into blackness as it journeys down the page.

She described dense arrays of string nailed to the wall and floor, from 1974 and 1978, as female and male, and do not go thinking of the «purity» of white as female or blackness as male.

Jones's deeply complex analysis cites numerous lushly illustrated works; her material, social, and political examination discusses the myriad ways African American artists, often segregated from the art world, articulated racial portraits of blackness as a means of accessing political authority.

However, the focus on the presence of light continues in the paintings of Soulages to be borne from the blackness as made evident in the paintings of the last two years.

Ojih Odutola's portrayal of black skin is incredibly important in a political climate that rejects otherness and rejects blackness as powerful.

She engages blackness as a field of tonality.

In all ways Odutola complicates the historical pull, in a white supremacist frame, toward blackness as «simply» a racial demarcation.

Featuring works — over a third of which are newly created — by an international and intergenerational group of artists, the exhibition explores blackness as a highly evocative and animating force in various approaches to abstract art.

Moving between a graphic sensibility, an interest in creation myths and the use of found materials and detritus, the artists reference various classical tropes of blackness as sites of origin — fantastical and performed, important yet perhaps illusory.

Here's the set - up: Libby Carter wanted to get away from it all, so she took a job mining asteroids as far out into the inky blackness as -LSB-...]

In adopting this pose, Black people aren't demonstrating passive surrender to oppression, they are communicating that they can make all attempts to appear non-threatening, but the historic and contemporary vilification of blackness in America has made the real danger the perception of their blackness as inherently threatening.

Not exact matches

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

«From this it is very clear that the mark which was set upon the descendants of Cain was a skin of blackness, and there can be no doubt that this was the mark that Cain himself received; in fact, it has been noticed in our day that men who have lost the spirit of the Lord, and from whom His blessings have been withdrawn, have turned dark to such an extent as to excite the comments of all who have known them.»

Many people were covered with a dark grease, perhaps as a way of emulating the blackness of the Virgin.

As we do, we must also recognize that these unnecessary deaths are part of a cultural death — the death of blackness itself at the hands of life - denying, anti-blackness.

As they climbed, more and more ants swarmed up out of the ground so that by the time the first few ants had reached the bloody feet of Jesus, all the ground around the cross and the lower portion of the beam was a roiling mass of blackness.

Looking outwardly upon universalisms» blackness is the samething thing as looking inwardly past the veiled molecules to see what has been scientifically gestured to be «atomic» nebulas in an atomically designated Cosmos,,,,,,,, you know their fathers (plural) as being but one celestial universe within untold numbers of celestial universes within the Celestial Cosmos.

As children lost in a woods, are fearful of the sinister darkness — and then, suddenly, hearing a sound from the sombre blackness, a familiar voice, a loving, seeking, helping voice, their mother's voice — so prayer is our reply to the voice from the Word of God in Jesus Christ which suddenly cries out to us in the mysterious, dark universe.

Wilson framed his review as an answer to the question: «How should white listeners approach the «overwhelming blackness» of Kendrick Lamar's brilliant new album?»

For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.

This is it, I thought as I stood up, back straight, because this is my favourite sight: the inky blackness of pine trees, black lace relief burned out against the western sky as the last guardian of this date on the calendar cedes.

So some people will think that my blackness and my life as a black man is somehow me being political or being a «left - winged advocate» or whatever, when it's just me being me, saying no, my experience is very unique.

Of course, those descriptions have been conveniently overlooked as the (vanishing) majority in this country considers anything related to «blackness» as inferior.

Malcolm X taught black ministers and scholars that the identity of African - Americans as a people was inextricably linked with blackness.

Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.

But don't worry about the blackness of the first as this is to be expected and not a problem.

The typical Nigerian personality is open to a burning desire to view a white human being as fully positive in nature and precious in appearance followed by a sense of negativity to his or her own blackness.

Revered Ghanaian Broadcaster, Communication, Arts and Culture and Media polymath, Kwasi Kyei Darkwah, fondly known as KKD — The Finest, His Royal Blackness, will be the official MC.

The day is known in history as «Black Sunday,» when a mountain of blackness swept across the High Plains and instantly turned a warm, sunny afternoon into a horrible blackness that was darker than the darkest night.

Somehow and someway we move, we carry on, we persevere - even though, in times such as these, it feels like we are swimming through tar, barely able to keep our heads above the blackness.

More troubling than this predictable (if startling) plot point per se is Creasy's blackness (as opposed to the 1987 incarnation's whiteness) in relation to it.

Even among many of the most elite enclaves of blackness today, power is uniquely vulnerable and fragile, and there are as of yet no suits of any cost that will stop black youth from the ravages of police brutality the world over.

Unforgivable Blackness will stand as an absorbing microscope in reference to resilient black manhood in all its vulnerability and vitality.