Sentences with phrase «exploring black identity»

Created in 1997, Wedge evolved from a commercial gallery into a nonprofit organization, exhibiting photo - based work with a strong focus on exploring black identity and the African diaspora.

Whether working on Guardian newspapers or directly onto porcelain tableware, Himid continually subjects painting to the material of everyday life in order to explore Black identity.

Group Exhibition in Tribeca Explores Black Identity «Black Eye,» a group show that explores the shifting dynamics of race and identity over the past two decades, features a who's who among two generations of black contemporary artists.

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.

Born in Zanzibar and raised in the UK, she has focused on a range of subjects related to race, from matters of the African diaspora to the visibility of black creatives in museums.Whether working on Guardian newspapers or directly onto porcelain tableware, Himid continually subjects painting to the material of everyday life in order to explore Black identity.

In this week's roundup, Kerry James Marshall and others explore black identity, Mark Dion has a ship in a bottle, Barbara Kruger makes art from chess, and more.

Since, Lydia has created «In / Between Spaces» - a mobile group exhibition series in a 26» U-Haul that explores Black identity in various spheres of modern life and that travels to predominantly Black neighborhoods in New Orleans to engage those who have been alienated from the world of contemporary fine art.

Together they produced experimental films that explored black identity and political issues such as the racial tensions that led to riots in the UK during the early and mid-1980s.

Simultaneously visceral and abstract, the installation explores black identity in relation to capitalism and colonialism through an uncanny superimposition of the histories of these two systems upon the present day.

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When, like most of America, Shelby Steele thought that story was true, he argued that it revealed that Obama had scuttled a long (and promising) relationship mainly for the sake of better exploring and establishing his black identity, a goal that involved a refusal to further explore his bi-racial identity.

Her work explores representations of black male sexuality and identity, through exceptional craftsmanship and embellishments.

The Happy Sad (Unrated) Bifurcated Brooklyn drama about two young couples, one, black and gay (Leroy McClain and Charlie Barnett), the other, white and heterosexual (Cameron Scoggins and Sorel Carradine), whose lives serendipitously intertwine as they explore their sexual identity.

In Black Ops 4, we're incorporating narrative gameplay experiences directly into MP and giving players the ability to learn and master each of the Specialists through solo missions that give hands - on intros to each Specialist, while exploring the stories behind their identities.

Debuting in a time where discussion on race in American cinema is at an absolute fever pitch, Morris From America explores the idea of cultural and personal identity through the lens of a 13 - year old black aspiring free - styler living with his father (Craig Robinson) in the little white - washed German village of Heidelberg.

Ezra Edelman's five - part documentary film O.J.: Made in America explores two parallel historical narratives: 1) The story of post-Watts race relations in Los Angeles, specifically the tensions between the LAPD and the black community; and 2) the story of a preternaturally talented black athlete who sought to shed his racial identity to achieve «white» success, only for him to reclaim it at a crucial moment.

«I wanted to explore how artistic practices can be applied toward the identity development of Black and Brown youth,» he says.

Please join NEP and the Black Teacher Project as we partner to explore the crucial work of building relationship and understanding among and across race identity groups, with a focus on using racial affinity group structures in sustained collaborative work contexts.

Weaving deftly between 1980 and the present day, and told in an unforgettable voice, Long Black Veil is an intensely atmospheric thriller that explores the meaning of identity, loyalty, and love.

Long Black Veil will appeal to readers who enjoy complex plots and exploring contemporary issues of identity and the role of gender; as well as the idea of self - reinvention.

In a narrative showcasing her signature black humor and spot - on observations about life, Chast, an only child, also looks back on her family's history, exploring the identities of her volatile, strong - willed mother, Elizabeth, and her needy, anxious father, George.

His critically acclaimed memoir, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, explores the author's struggle to understand his biracial identity... (more)

In Black Ops 4, we're incorporating narrative gameplay experiences directly into MP and giving players the ability to learn and master each of the Specialists through solo missions that give hands - on intros to each Specialist, while exploring the stories behind their identities.

EXHIBITION «Black Eye,» a group show that explores the shifting dynamics of race and identity over the past two decades, opens May 3 featuring 26 Black contemporary artists, a who's who among two generations — Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, David Hammons, Deanna Lawson, Simone Leigh, Steve McQueen, Toyin Odutola, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Hank Willis Thomas, Kehinde Wiley and Nari Ward, among others.

This spring, the Serpentine presents the first European solo exhibition of American artist Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey), who explores the intersection of black identity, digital culture

Saar, who explores history and identity through sculpture and mixed - media works, is among a handful of Black artists invited to serve as commencement speakers this spring.

This spring, the Serpentine presents the first European solo exhibition of American artist Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey), who explores the intersection of black identity, digital culture and power structures through video, media, installation and performance.

«RASHID JOHNSON: Anxious Men» @ The Drawing Center New York, N.Y. Over the past 15 years or so, Rashid Johnson «s practice has explored a range of themes, including «the black experience in America, the dialogue between abstraction and figuration, and the relationship between art and personal identity.»

Indeed, the social histories and identity politics explored in work made during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements is being investigated by a new generation of scholars and curators, bringing attention to overlooked artists central to the era, AfriCOBRA artists in particular.

Created between 1964 and 2005, the oil and mixed - media collage works explore American identity, prisons, war, migration, farming and the challenges and dignity of black life.

A group exhibition at The Photographers» Gallery presents, London, curated by Ekow Eshun explores the identity of the black dandy as performed in studio and street photographs from London to New York to Bamako.

Still shots from the set of Julien's pivotal movie Looking for Langston (1989) are featured in this group exhibition (until 25 September 2016) exploring the identity of the black dandy.

There have since been 25 dinners that have explored themes like Baltimore, Race, and Identity (in honor of Freddy Gray); the 2016 shootings in Orlando and the need for sanctuary spaces; Black Female Subjectivity; Black Male Subjectivity; and Racial Subjugation in Latin American History.

Fahamu Pecou is an American contemporary artist and scholar who explores black male identity in art, performance and popular culture

The Photographers» Gallery presents Made You Look: Dandyism and Black Masculinity, a group exhibition exploring the identity of the black dandy as performed in studio and street photographs from London to New York to BaBlack Masculinity, a group exhibition exploring the identity of the black dandy as performed in studio and street photographs from London to New York to Bablack dandy as performed in studio and street photographs from London to New York to Bamako.

With «Freestyle,» «Frequency,» «Flow,» and «Fore,» the Studio Museum explored how identity itself emerges obliquely for young black artists.

15 Jul - 25 Sep 2016 The Photographers» Gallery presents Made You Look: Dandyism and Black Masculinity, a group exhibition exploring the identity of the black dandy as performed Black Masculinity, a group exhibition exploring the identity of the black dandy as performed black dandy as performed in...

Cutler employs a vivid color palette to compose internal - landscapes / symbolic still lifes, exploring the cultural and personal significance of his identity as a black gay man in contemporary America.

The low - fi, black and white videos explored aspects of identity, language and memory.

Her work often explores important topics such as contemporary black identity, queer theory, and the power of human language, seen through video, performance, writing and other new media.

His work has since explored a variety of issues including black identity, diaspora, migration and capital.

She sees bodies in their physical, social and political aspects, exploring the ideas of eroticization of Black femininity in arts and culture and social construction of racial identities within the frame of ideas found in Orientalist discourse.

First European solo exhibition of American artist Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey), who explores the intersection of black identity,

Starting with the Black List, a documentary film exploring race, identity and achievement in the African - American community.

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.

Although Thomas has noted that not every painting has a collage, every image starts with a photograph, staged in a wood - paneled corner of her studio, and which directly informs and often serves as the basis of her elaborate, rhinestone - clad paintings that explore notions of black female beauty and identity.

«Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities,» which explores the use and implications of disguise, will open September 10.

Fahamu Pecou is an American artist and scholar who explores black male identity in art, performance and popular culture.

: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960 - 1980» explored a robust period in the city's history when a pioneering group of African American artists established an influential creative community and produced important works commenting on the state of culture, politics and identity.

Created by Brooklyn youth from No Longer Empty Young Exhibition Makers program (Y.Ex), this exhibition explores themes that are most pressing to the Y.Ex cohort: teenhood, black identity, mindfulness, family matters, violence, -LSB-...]

This exhibition faces critical issues of race head - on, exploring and engaging issues of identity for black Americans as explored by an emerging generation of innovative artists,» said Amy Sadao, Director of ICA.