Sentences with phrase «of black bodies»

In a North American context, for many people blackface is cultural touchstone that signals the symbolic domination of black bodies and its ugly, not so distant, history.

In her New York solo debut at The Kitchen, emerging artist Sondra Perry similarly pondered public images of black bodies in a group of video installations.

Lee uses photography, collage, and video to examine the history of black bodies in soil, particularly in relationship to slavery in U.S. history, when African - Americans worked with the land.

She «is critical of African American cultural history and the representation of black bodies, and her portraits are satirical manifestations of identities shaped by political, social, economic, and cultural influences.»

Titus Kaphar's timely two - part exhibition formally addresses the obfuscation and silencing of black bodies through portraiture.

««Plantation Lullabies» reexamines the negative imagining of black bodies and black lives, bringing intelligence, creativity and humor to these objects and songs of disgrace to demonstrate their relevance to the present moment.»

Their work comments on the various representations of black bodies in Western visual culture.

Shiferaw often explores a spectrum of topics ranging from the notion of black bodies in a white social construct to the popular idioms of romance, sex and daily life.

Through repetitive use of the same portrait combined with graphic text, her «anti-portraits» have a sense of scientific classification, addressing the cultural associations of black bodies.

For example, whereas Hank re-purposes the symbolic black and white image of black bodies on a slave ship and fashions it into the shape of a liquor bottle, Sanford uses the source image to create a flower motif.

In light of recent controversies over the use or absence of Black bodies in relation to abstract painting (most notably the controversy of the Dana Schutz painting at New York's Whitney museum), and the ahistorical suspicion of abstraction as a form of practice that manifest in some of the discourse, it is important that Black artists» role as innovators in the field of abstraction is given due significance here through the works of Whitten, Bowling, and others.

In a city where people are still grappling with the shooting of Michael Brown and the ensuing Ferguson riots, the situation raises the question of what it means for a museum to hang images of black bodies that its visitors consider violent and painful.

Set against a viscous background of her own skin, the exhibition presented a multifaceted look at the surveillance and policing of black bodies through a combination of unusable exercise machines filled with hair gel, Microsoft's blue screen of death, the artist's own glitchy avatar and the dystopian narrative of the

Set against a viscous background of her own skin, the exhibition presented a multifaceted look at the surveillance and policing of black bodies through a combination of unusable exercise machines filled with hair gel, Microsoft's blue screen of death, the artist's own glitchy avatar and the dystopian narrative of the Alien franchise.

The result: patterns that were both abstract and symbolic, suggesting the domestic servitude by many African Americans and the scarring of black bodies, whether as signs of beauty or the result of physical punishment.

Garner's sculptural and installation work focus on the exploitation of Black bodies by the medical industry from 1800's to the present day.

Invisible Man Tattoo will mobilize these themes in concert with Garner's practice as a licensed tattoo artist to address the persistent erasure of Black resilience and Black excellence within textbooks, curriculums, and mass media as well as the state sanctioned exploitation of Black bodies at the hands of medical and political institutions within the United States.

mobilize these themes in concert with Garner's practice as a licensed tattoo artist to address the persistent erasure of Black resilience and Black excellence within textbooks, curriculums, and mass media as well as the state sanctioned exploitation of Black bodies at the hands of medical and political institutions within the United States.

«Hank Willis Thomas: Artist Exploring Commodification of Black Bodies — Racismreview.com.»

Realizing this limited value, artists such as Ewa Partum and Sanja Iveković have embodied this flatness in order to explode space, while others like Sondra Perry and Hank Willis Thomas have drawn attention to the history of the advertisement industry's adaptation of black bodies.

In an adjoining gallery, selections from Thomas» current series, Branded, are on view; a critique of the hyper - masculine tropes cycled through capitalist systems — images of NBA players used as figures that equate the exchange and labor of black bodies in major league sports, a type of «modern slavery.»

As though invoking a «dark sousveillance,» a term coined by scholar Simone Browne to underscore epistemological resistance to the surveillance of black bodies in white - dominated social space, this embodied consciousness is never entirely given, always partially withheld.

While these works exist as contemporary representations of Black bodies and Queerness, they also critique the pervasive consumption of Black imagery and culture by an otherwise negligent audience.

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 6 P.M. ARTIST TALK: Kerry James Marshall John Brown's Body: The Representation of Black Bodies as Revolutionary Gesture 210 McKnight Art Center West, WSU School of Art and Design Museum galleries open until 6 P.M..

Tensions surfaced last September in protests against the Contemporary Art Museum here around a show of work by a white artist, Kelley Walker, that included images of black bodies smeared with chocolate and rainbow - colored toothpaste.

In Look Back at It (2016), all of the figures from Picasso's painting are replicated, but in collages made up of black bodies, fireballs, and bling.

Infinite Receptors These works are part of an ongoing body of paintings and drawings called Infinite Receptors that explores issues related to lived experiences of black bodies today.

bell hooks once wrote of the ways in which white patriarchal dominance is mediated by images of black bodies.

Furtive Gestures, Dave McKenzie's solo performance as a magician, which will explore the ways the gestures of black bodies (hands in pockets, shoulders askew, etc.) are said to signal danger or the need for surveillance.

It's the relationship of black bodies and the lens is the politicized terrain.

Sidney Fussell at Offworld also continued the conversation, going into the dehumanizing stereotypes of black bodies games deploy and the real world damage this inflicts.

The exoticism of black bodies in the Caribbean has led to some of the black men preferring to date white women exclusively as their meal ticket to economic stability.

It is a film that honors the history of black bodies on our entire continent, from the kingdoms they built, to the bondage they were shackled in, to the world that has treated them with cruelty at every possible turn.»

As Dr. Curtis Steven Wilder makes painfully clear in his book Ebony And Ivy, the American Church, along with elite colleges and universities, was chief among those who trafficked not only in the kidnapping and commodification of black bodies but also in the development of a theology of black bondage.

But, again, none of these people who have been threatened by the simple presence of a black body — my black body — know that I make my own antipasto.

The success of Get Out and its exploration of the fetishisation and exploitation of the black body is testament to that.

I'm not a fan of black body cladding on the lower portion, either.

The appearance package includes a whole lot of black body parts: grille, wheels, step rails, rearview mirrors, door handles and Midnight Edition badging.

His portrayal of the black body — both female and male — represented a shift in our perceptions of African - American masculinity,» Salon 94 Founder Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn said in a statement.

DEANA LAWSON's large - format photographs run counter to traditional representations of the black body.

Surveying four decades of her practice, the exhibition highlights her ongoing investigation of the black body as a source and site of power and beauty.»

Kara Walker is known for her paper silhouettes which combine the saccharine and the horrific in their uncompromising representations of the black body.

Welding deeply political statements, mythology, and black bodies into paintings, toile designs and found objects, she critiques the use of the black body, and the control of that body, for decorative purposes.

tête - à - tête poses a series of back - and - forth conversations across the photographic and video works of fourteen artists that address social, political and personal mythologies of the black body as constructed and represented in visual media.

Muholi also discussed her photography practice at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, where her work is part of Residual: Traces of the Black Body, an exhibition presented in the context of Format 2015: International Photography Festival (until 17 Apr).

Muholi's visit to UCLan coincides with her participation to the group exhibition Residual: Traces of the Black Body, curated by Christine Eyene at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, as part of FORMAT International Photography Festival 2015.

Last spring NAE presented Residual: Traces of the Black Body curated by Christine Eyene as part of the 2015 edition of FORMAT International Photography Festival.

Taken primarily between 2014 and 2017, each portrait in Somnyama Ngonyama poses critical questions about social justice, human rights and contested representations of the black body.

As an artist, writer, and professor, Himid has dedicated her work to the discourse on migration, race, slavery and the representation of the black body in art, overthrowing Western stereotypes and classifications.

FIGURING HISTORY: ROBERT COLESCOTT, KERRY JAMES MARSHALL, MICKALENE THOMAS Three otherwise dissimilar African - American artists have all used their painting to monumentally reconceive visual depiction of the black body.