Sentences with phrase «interrogates contemporary visual culture»

Using drawing, installation, and found objects, Pruitt interrogates contemporary visual culture, its representations of race and gender, and the New York art world.

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As a University Art Gallery the Whitworth sees its role as a creative laboratory for ideas about contemporary visual culture and actively prioritises the collection of art, both British and international, that interrogates place, politics and identity.

The first project to explore the visual art, poetry and music of one of America's most inventive yet under - recognized contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition will survey Cannon's highly productive but short career; his development of a unique and hybrid visual vocabulary; and his combination of irony and wit with a reverence for community and tradition to interrogate American history and popular culture; as well as the issues wrought by colonialism, hegemony, and historical amnesia — all through his Native lens.

The highly stylized face evokes both the primitive scribbles of a child and the elaborate iconography of ancient African reliquary masks, both important influences on the young Basquiat who, like his hero Picasso, interrogated long - forgotten artistic traditions in his interpretations of contemporary visual culture.