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It will map out aesthetic and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the dispersal of peoples of Black African descent, and will also present key moments within the cultural politics of the Black Atlantic.

From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.

Not exact matches

Born in Nigeria, relocated to the UK; centered solely in drawing; large - scale drawings explore the malleability of space, politics of play, and cultural hybridity as a new nation; awards include Fulbright Scholar Award in Drawing to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (2012 — 2013); participates in the Drawing Center's Open Sessions Program; Queens Museum artist - in - residence.

Her work often provides a portal into a third space [1], one of hybridity, where Crosby intersects her cultural experiences in Nigeria and the West to diminish the limitations of geography.

But in today's economy, the gallerist as cultural entrepreneur and arbiter exercises a professional hybridity far removed from Kahnweiler's day.

digital collages that explore racial and cultural ambiguity through visual hybridity, like the work of each artist in this exhibition, demonstrate that late 20th - century predictions of the end of traditional fine «art» practice at the dawn of digital culture were simply wrong.

[26] The garments she designs to be worn in her video works filmed in her installations are often fusions of her various influences, attesting to her views of cultural hybridity.

In an interview for Huffington Post she described her attitude towards cultural hybridity: «Although cultures do have important political utility, the idea that cultures develop in vacuums is falsIn an interview for Huffington Post she described her attitude towards cultural hybridity: «Although cultures do have important political utility, the idea that cultures develop in vacuums is falsin vacuums is false.

The list, put together by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, (of the Nasher Museum in Durham North Carolina), includes 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, and will address themes of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity.

Born in Brazil, Shiokava is ethnically Japanese, and his work embodies a cultural hybridity played out in the distinction between his wood and macramé totems, which he says represent, respectively, the Japanese and Brazilian sides of himself.

All of these artists have succeeded by avoiding what cultural historian Ian Buruma calls the «trap of hybridity,» in which self - conscious efforts to merge different traditions produce little more than superficial decoration hiding ill - digested ideas.

Having recently completed a Master's course at Christie's Education in Modern and Contemporary Art, her thesis focuses on themes of cultural hybridity and displacement.

From her In - Between Worlds series, a group of images that explore, perform and confront issues of cultural hybridity.

I'm really interested in hybridity from a cultural perspective, but I chose to focus on inter-species hybridization because I didn't want it to be merely about the fusion and mixture of culture, but also about the transparency of boundaries between things we identify as whole in and of themselves.

She is interested in exploring non-dominant histories, cultural hybridity, and the deconstruction of power structures.

One of the most thought - provoking catalogue narratives is Ligon's «Blue Black,» which discusses the challenges Ofili has faced (and continues to face) in attempting to transition from centralizing concerns about identity, «race,» and social exclusion toward more nuanced and entangled representations focused on cultural syncretism, creolization, and hybridity.

Like amanze, examining the revolutionary and utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity, Saya Woolfalk uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions.

Hou Hanru's prolific curatorial work addresses contemporary practice and the conditions of artists living in the diaspora from the perspective of cultural hybridity.

Presence, the featured work, is rooted in explorations surrounding cultural dislocation, disconnection and hybridity.

The best works and talks were ones in which geographical and cultural hybridity shone through in all its messiness.

The triennial exhibition, spread across seventeen venues in New Orleans, will feature seventy - three artists from «North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement, and cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the city's tricentennial,» according to an announcement from the event's organizers.

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