Sentences with phrase «confronting issues of identity»

The exhibition examines ways in which artists in Israel today use textile for confronting issues of identity, language, and boundaries of body and space.

The catalogue for Confronting Identities in German Art turns to art works, artists, and their audiences to explore how Germans of the past two centuries have confronted issues of identity, both individual and collective.

Not exact matches

Budhos, author of two other novels that focus on immigrant teens (Ask Me No Questions, 2006, and Tell Us We're Home, 2010), presents another effective coming - of - age novel, one that not only confronts without reservation the notion of Islamaphobia and issues of teenage identity but also tackles the grittier aspects of life in this post-9 / 11 era.

Margaret Bowland creates work that confronts contemporary issues of identity through probing and deeply personal pictures that question Western societal expectations of gender, race, power, and beauty.

Navin Rawanchaikul The Thai's latest work pushes on from issues enter of branding identity, to confront personal emotions, ghosts of the past and the interconnected histories of South, East and Southeast Asia.

In an effort to identify truth, reality, and meaning, each of the artists in the exhibition confronts these questions by inventing, criticizing, or retelling reality — simultaneously grappling with issues of racial identity, sexuality, violence, protest, globalism, and ethics.

Four exhibitions in a year is rare exposure for an artist in New York City, yet Yevgeniy Fiks (b. 1972 Moscow) has accomplished just that: The Lenin Museum, a solo exhibition exposing the duplicity of expediency and erasure in the instrumentalization of gay culture in Soviet Russia, currently on view at the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, and three collaborative projects, which confront issues of representation within historical practices of commemoration and identity formation within the public sphere.

Punchbag added further complexities to questions of raced, gendered and cultural identities raised by Glenn Ligon's Skin Tight: Muhammed Ali Text (1995)[Figs.85 - 86], a punchbag and text piece which specifically sought to address «how black men have used boxing to confront issues of black American identity» and «the construction of masculinity in relation to questions of violence, the commodification of black subjects, sexuality and resistance.»

These works on paper directly confront the issues of marginality within the intersectional context of race and sexual identity.

... the character of the jokes was significant — fifties - style, middle America, blue collar, Borscht Belt humor that confronted issues of sexual identity, class and race... By isolating them he exposed their hidden malevolence, perversity and anger.

Jean - Michel Basquiat took the New York City art world by storm in the early 1980s and gained international recognition by creating powerful and expressive works that confronted issues of racism, identity and social tension.

Today's artists of African descent still discuss and confront issues regarding race and art, having to reconcile their identity as seen within their own culture with the perception of the mainstream one.

Jean - Michel Basquiat took the New York City art world by storm in the early 1980s and gained international recognition for his powerful and expressive works that confronted issues of racism, identity and social tension.