Sentences with phrase «explores blackness»

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.»

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

Interested in colonialism as both a psychic and material phenomenon, Gray explores blackness and labor within celebrity.

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.

Employing photography and text, artists Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems explored blackness and femininity.

(The artist also founded Dominica, a publishing imprint dedicated to exploring blackness in visual culture.)

Gaignard, who is mixed - race, uses a range of character performance, self - portraiture and sculpture to explore blackness, whiteness, femininity, class, and intersections therein.

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

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.»

«Blackness is so often described in a reductive way and as something so easily determined and defined,» says Thomas, whose video work Question Bridge, and photography series B ® anded and Unbranded have long explored blackness.

She is the founder of Dominica, a publishing imprint dedicated to exploring blackness in visual culture.

Not exact matches

The award - winning poet on why she's using her MacArthur genius grant to explore whiteness, her questions for Lionel Shriver, and how an Ohio prison explodes the idea that blackness equals criminality

Intrepid intergalactic commanders will be able to explore a plethora of exotic fantasy worlds hidden deep within the inky blackness of space as they seek to develop and expand their galactic empire and rule the war - torn cosmos of the far - flung future.

Featuring 28 works by 19 artists — both black and white — the exhibition explores how visual perspectives of blackness «have been influenced at particular historical moments by specific political, cultural, and aesthetic interests, as well as the motives and beliefs of the artists.»

Odutola's portraits explore how to desegregate blackness from a fixed racial position and open it out to all the mythology, missteps, racism, beauty, and life that is held by the term, while still landing it within the free space of bodies.

Though in the past decade of work she's incorporated other media such as charcoal and marker into her repertoire, she's continued to explore the themes of skin, blackness and perception in her portraiture.

Blackness in Abstraction considers the use of black as a method, mode and material in works by twenty - nine artists who have explored the expressive and symbolic possibilities of black as a color.

Exploring new language with familiar iconography, both artists grapple with contemporary blackness.

While Glenn Ligon focuses on the construction of «blackness» and «queerness» in his photographic rethinking of Robert Mapplethorpe's erotic images, Iñigo Manglano - Ovalle explores the notion of identity through the processes of genetic mapping in his DNA photographs.

By not being bound to a specific narrative, Yiadom - Boakye can explore the complexities of blackness and identity leveraging the language of painting innovative ways.

December 2016 / The Creators Project 14 Photographers Explore Mythologies Surrounding Blackness Download PDF

His work merges the genius of his operatic voice with the gospel and blues tradition to explore the radical potentialities of blackness and the mythology of death and resurrection.

Alongside this work, he also addresses racial questions, exploring concepts of blackness and whiteness and presenting the prejudices and violence that emerge from a culture of racism.

With two shows of emerging black artists or Gary Simmons, the Studio Museum has explored black identity, but without asking art to conform to anyone's image of blackness.

Her self - portraits focus on the sociopolitical idea of skin color and explore the layers of blackness through personal and political themes.

Taking his cue from Glenn Ligon and Thelma Golden's 2001 exploratory concept of «post-Black» — a term describing artists adamantly against being labeled «black artists» so that they might explore a multiplicity of ideas concerning racial blackness — Majeed engages these questions around folk and outsider by adopting a similar non-essentialist and inquisitive stance in Post Black Folk Art in America.

«I was always very taken by the nuanced ways in which he wanted to explore questions around blackness,» said Valerie Cassel Oliver, one of the organizers of that year's biennial.

In 2015 curator, Adrienne Edwards wrote «Blackness in Abstraction» in Art in America, an essay that cogently explores Adam Pendleton's recent «Black Dada» works and outlines a history of contemporary artists» conceptual visual ruminations, which have presented blackness in multitudes since the earBlackness in Abstraction» in Art in America, an essay that cogently explores Adam Pendleton's recent «Black Dada» works and outlines a history of contemporary artists» conceptual visual ruminations, which have presented blackness in multitudes since the earblackness in multitudes since the early 1940s.

Drawing from her personal history actual and imagined, her work explores what it means to be black and free, and how blackness exists in the near future.

Take, for example, Scenes & Take (In Suspended Disbelief), which reads, «In suspended disbelief, she floats from room to room and set to set, marking the shifts that seemed to reset the bar — hmmm... shows exploring the outer limits of blackness and its ability to hold the imagination.»

This includes «Ease of Fiction,» a group exhibition that features work by four African artists exploring the fine line between the invented and the real and the debut museum exhibition of Los Angeles artist Genevieve Gagnard, whose photographs question notions of blackness and whiteness.

In 2015, he co-curated (with Kelli Morgan) Black Like Who: Exploring Race and Representation, an exhibition that considered who renders imagery of blackness in American art and contemplated the various reasons why.

A group of young artists, including Zoe Buckman, Nina Chanel Abney, and Titus Kaphar explore the meaning of blackness in 2015 in the Hank Willis Thomas - curated show.

For his solo show Water Me at Brilliant Champions Gallery in Brooklyn, Abbensetts presents works exploring his own identity and blackness, through an approach he dubs «revisionary self - appropriation.»

Exploring how Sonia Boyce explores her own sense of self in relation to media images of blackness and whiteness in...

The groundbreaking exhibition introduced him alongside 27 other emerging African American artists as part of a generation of «post-black» artists who sought to transcend the simplistic label of «black artist», while still deeply exploring and re-defining the complex notions of blackness.

At the same time, Boswell draws on her own experience of the art world to explore how anxieties around immigration and Blackness still resonate in the UK today.

Martine Syms's expansive, multi-disciplinary practice, which includes film, essay, graphic design, web design, and publishing, explores representations of blackness and its relationship to narrative, black vernacular, feminist movements, and radical traditions.

Currently, Dean's research, writing, and visual work explore the relationship and resonances between blackness, media, and communication and information technologies.

Toyin Odutola Talks About Her Work in New Mexico An artist - in - residence at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico, Toyin Odutola spoke about her work — pen - and - ink drawings that focus on the blackness of skin color as a point of departure to explore matters of identity and experience — at at the campus musuem on Sept. 18.

The central work in the installation, Incense, Sweaters, and Ice (2017), is a non-linear narrative film that explores the contemporary performance and surveillance of blackness.

The other contenders are photographer Richard Billingham, who pictures his parents in a run - down tower block, film - maker Isaac Julien, who explores «gay masculinity, blackness and sex» and Mike Nelson who assembles rubbish.

Nearly 50 years later, the conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas has curated a group exhibition at Goodman Gallery in South Africa — including Nina Chanel Abney, Derrick Adams, Sadie Barnette, Zoe Buckman, Bethany Collins, Omar Victor Diop, Titus Kaphar, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Yashua Klos, Gerald Machona, Toyin Odutola, Ebony Patterson, Adam Pendleton, Jody Paulson, Tabita Rezaire, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Shinique Smith — titled after Simone's song as a way to explore an expansive post-civil rights era notion of blackness.

Works including Toyin Ojih Odutola's The Treatment series of black pen drawing of famous white men like President Herbert Hoover rendered black, Zoe Buckman's feminist Every Curve series of lingerie embroidered with Biggie and Tupac lyrics, and Titus Kaphar's George Washington's Chef oil on canvas painting explore the historical and present impact of blackness on the shaping of identity and popular culture.

And opening 23 June just three blocks north of Dia at PACE Gallery, the exhibition Blackness in Abstraction explores monochromatic black works curated from an «international and intergenerational» group of artists.

Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey) constructs multifaceted narratives that explore the imagining, or imaging, of blackness throughout history.

Sondra Perry constructs multifaceted narratives that explore the imagining, or imaging, of blackness throughout history.