William Villalongo's exhibition features paintings, collages, and prints, along with a film that gives some insight his use of the African mask as a symbol
of double consciousness in his practice.
Cassel Oliver has organized numerous exhibitions including the
acclaimed Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 (2005); Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image with Dr. Andrea Barnwell Brownlee (2009); Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft (2010); and Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, (2012), which toured through 2015.
In his work, Willis Thomas perceptively engages what W. E. B. Du Bois
called double consciousness, the condition in which people see themselves reflected, often negatively, in the view of others and end up molding their lives to confirm that view.
Group exhibitions
include Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2005); and Quicksand, De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland (2004); and Lateral Thinking, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA (2002).
Double Consciousness explores the conceptual art practices of African - American artists over the past 35 years, using as its underpinning, the «reflexive» nature of art - making which emerged with the avant - garde of the late 1960s.
Her exhibitions
like Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art and the upcoming Radical Presence, which will consider the contributions of artists of color to the performance field, were being made before curatorial and institutional conversations about diversity were common.
His contributions to exhibition catalogs include one for the landmark traveling
show Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, presented at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
Owusu interprets Du Bois» notion
of double consciousness and creates a third identity or consciousness, representing the diverse consciousness of women and African immigrants interacting in African, white American, and black American culture.
The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art (2003); the
acclaimed Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970 (2005); and Black / White Noise: Sound and Light in Contemporary Art (2007).
Of Thomas» work in the collaborative transmedia project, Question Bridge, Holland Cotter wrote in the New York Times, ``... he has been particularly astute in examining the workings of what W.E.B. Du Bois
called double consciousness, the condition in which people see themselves reflected, often negatively, in the view of others and end up molding their lives to confirm that view.»
Valerie Cassel Oliver is senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston were she has organized numerous exhibitions
including Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 (2005); Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image with Dr. Andrea Barnwell Brownlee (2009); Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft and Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art (2012).
DuBois's idea of «
double consciousness» is one example of this fragmentation.
W. E. B. DuBois in his classic volume, The Souls of Black Folk, refers to the issue as a type of «
double consciousness.»
They always feel this sense of twoness or
double consciousness, being Black and American, having two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled dimensions, «two warring ideas in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder» (SBF 17).
Social criticism can loosen the ropes of
this double consciousness.
Grant resolved the dilemma first by enlarging on the insights of W. E. B. DuBois and his reference to
the double consciousness of black men, who understood themselves through their «twoness» — being black and American.
They have
a double consciousness: they believe in the shepherd's providence, but that belief does not blind them to the terrors that await them along the ways of justice.
Speaking of complex, where this film manages to do something I've rarely seen in a mainstream movie, that is delve into the idea of
double consciousness, as well as the intergenerational struggles in the Black family.
However, it isn't till about the last 30 minutes of the film that you realize you've been witnessing a nuanced dissection of intergenerational relationships, race relations and
double consciousness, and then the film really reveals itself to you.
He contributed to catalogues for exhibitions such as Freestyle and Black Belt at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and contributed to Gary Simmons at the MCA, Chicago and
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970 (Contemporary Art Museum, Houston).
Group exhibitions showing his work include the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2006); Frequency, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2005); and
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2005).
In his reflective stance, and position facing Vessel, the activist and scholar is enacting a meditative consideration of «
double consciousness» — his theory that African Americans constitute a double sense of self, and their continual struggle to reconcile the two cultures that compose their identity.
This arrangement invites viewers to approach the works in Black in the Abstract with a «
double consciousness,» to borrow W.E.B. DuBois's instructive term and the title of Cassel Oliver's 2005 survey of black conceptual art (which, by the way, included work by Piper, as did Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, which Cassel Oliver co-curated in 2008).
Owusu interprets Du Bois» notion of
double consciousness and creates a third cinematic space or consciousness, representing diverse identities including feminism, queerness and African immigrants interacting in African, white American, and black American culture.
ASK ANY 30 - SOMETHING with African parents what it was like growing up in the States and you'll likely hear a story of unbelonging, an account not of
double consciousness but triple.
She went on to work with him on a number of shows, including «
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970» at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and a show at Artpace in San Antonio, Texas.
Hank Willis Thomas Brings Du Bois to Chelsea — The artist, whom we once interviewed about his riveting art exploring thorny issues of race, has a five - channel video installation on view at Jack Shainman Gallery that surveys 150 black men about issues at the heart of W.E.B. Du Bois's «
double consciousness.»
In a 2013 review of Question Bridge, a collaborative transmedia project, Holland Cotter wrote in the New York Times, ``... he has been particularly astute in examining the workings of what W. E. B. Du Bois called
double consciousness, the condition in which people see themselves reflected, often negatively, in the view of others and end up molding their lives to confirm that view.»
The Kitchen writes that in this exhibition Hewitt's `... long - standing interest in non-linear perspective merges with W.E.B. Dubois» theory of
double consciousness, to create visually elegant and thoughtfully composed situational works».
The Kitchen writes that in this exhibition Hewitt's `... long - standing interest in non-linear perspective merges with W.E.B. Dubois» theory of
double consciousness, to create visually elegant and thoughtfully -LSB-.....]
Using this visual lexicon, Roberts grapples with notions of blackness, the dysfunctional legacy of color - ism, and the psychology of
double consciousness that pervades the African American community.
I talk about how we as African American men live within these different identities similar to W.E.B. Dubois» notion of
double consciousness.
«Ultimately it is my hope,» Berding says, «that the paintings, like urban landscapes, teem with a sort of
double consciousness, a prevailing sense of both, the future - present and the ever - present past.»
Among them, «A Constellation» intermingles works by major artists from the museum's collection (icons like Betye Saar and Faith Ringgold) with the work of emerging artists (such as Tschabalala Self and Sondra Perry), and a sculpture by former artist - in - residence Marc Andre Robinson plumbs W.E.B. DuBois's theory of the African - American «
double consciousness» by way of a spiralling form made from wooden chair legs.