Sentences with phrase «collective black identity»
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.
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By setting intimate moments alongside landmark events (such as the Black Popular Culture Conference in 1991, the truce between the Crips and the Bloods in 1992, the Black Male exhibition at the Whitney in 1994, and the Black Nations / Queer Nations Conference in 1995), the archive constructs collective and private narratives to comment on identity, desire, sexuality, and loss.
Johnson combines both personally and historically loaded material — such as shea butter and black soap — with LP covers and books in complex paintings, sculptures and installations that confound the uniformity of collective identity and multicultural representation.
She is a member of Black Salt Collective, whose members are all Black, brown, and indigenous women, creating work about ancestry and identity in a contemporary context.
As we recently explored here on Artspace, the alter ego is a trenchant aspect of contemporary art — think of the recent controversy surrounding the Yams Collective's withdrawal from the Whitney Biennial because of artist Joe Scanlan's adopting of a black female identity (fictional artist «Donelle Woolford») as an avatar.
He is best known as one of the founders of the Black Audio Film Collective, which was active between 1982 and 1998, and which was dedicated towards examining issues of Black British identity through film and media.
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of this city's riots, this exhibition presents about 25 paintings, sculptures, installations and photographs made by African - American artist collectives of the 1960s and»70s that were intent on stressing black identity and civil rights.
Drawing its title from allusions to Robert P. T. Coffin's celebration of American Culture in his «Primer for America» and from Gwendolyn Brooks» poem «Primer for Blacks,» the piece takes an interdisciplinary approach to collective and specifically documented identities from Afro American and Euro American inheritance.