Sentences with phrase «of the black male figure»

This new body of work suggests a re-imagining of the black male figure at a time when current events and statistics reflect a social reality of limited expectations, contingency, and disproportionate fear.

This new work suggests a re-imagining of the black male figure at a time when current events and statistics reflect a social reality of limited expectations, contingency, and disproportionate fear.

In the Positions sector, devoted to showcasing singular projects by up - and - coming artists, she will show Jibade - Khalil Huffman's multi-channel video installation, from a new and timely body of work by the artist that, according to Ebgi, «focuses on themes of the black male figure in American pop culture, film, and literature.»

Not exact matches

More than a quarter of black males (28 percent) completed no more than four years of schooling, compared with less than 9 percent of white males (see Figures 1 & 2).

The overall effect of race matching on discipline outcomes is largest for black male students (Figure 2).

Jibade - Khalil Huffman (b. 1981) will present a new body of work at Anat Ebgi that focuses on the black male figure in art history, film and literature, while Jamal Cyrus (b. 1973) will explore the cultural politics of Black American music and the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s at Inman Galblack male figure in art history, film and literature, while Jamal Cyrus (b. 1973) will explore the cultural politics of Black American music and the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s at Inman GalBlack American music and the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s at Inman Gallery.

A black male figure is manning a Weber barbecue grill on the Fourth of July holiday.

Her current body of work explores the tensions found within systemic codes in which black males, in particular, are hunted, sexualized, feared, and imprisoned, yet are also seen as aspirational figures.

The central figure is a glorious male nude, his muscles articulated in confident strokes of black chalk.

The large paintings, a continuation of the artist's latest «Wrestler» series, feature muscular male figures in acrobatic stances against bright backdrops dotted with a curious dog here or an ominous swarm of black birds there.

The exception to the series is the last painting, a portrayal of intellectual and activist Susan Sontag as a young woman alongside a heavily blacked - out male figure, again symbolic of the contributions to contemporary culture made by a woman in a predominantly male - orientated world.

Yiadom - Boakye's edition of ten hard ground etchings was made to accompany her acclaimed exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery this summer and depict single black male figures wearing the ruff of feathers that has become a familiar motif in her work.

Blake's «rabbit» has evolved into the artist's iconographic surrogate for gay men (playing off the stereotype of the promiscuous gay man) as well as a threshold figure for black / white and male / female.

In the same way, Robert Mapplethorpe's pristine black and white photograph of a male nude is equally attentive to the formal qualities of the figure as well as to the erotic nature of the imagery.

The ten portraits each depict single, black, male figures wearing the ruffs of feathers that have become a familiar motif in her work.

A neon abstraction of Barack Obama's eyes hangs high over «Onyx Odyssey,» Jefferson Pinder's new solo exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center, observing the artist's interpretations of historical black male figures from civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois to Freddie Gray.

In one series, titled May June July August, «57 / «09, comprising 123 vintage and contemporary black - and - white photographs, Simpson juxtaposes images of a young African American woman (and an occasional male figure) who posed for pinups in Los Angeles in 1957 with self - portraits in which the artist acts as a doppelganger for the model.

Expanding on the rabbit and hare's traditional portrayal as symbols of lust and fecundity, Blake's «rabbit» has evolved into the artist's iconographic surrogate for gay men (playing off the stereotype of the promiscuous gay man) as well as a threshold figure for black / white and male / female.

In one series, titled May June July August «57 / «09, comprising 123 vintage and contemporary black - and - white photographs, Simpson juxtaposes images of young African American women (and an occasional male figure) who posed for pinups in Los Angeles in 1957 with self - portraits in which the artist acts as a doppelganger for each model.

Mönch (Monk) is a stoic, monochromatic male figure, made of solid polyester with a smooth, matte black surface.

YSP's Bothy Gallery documents Price's development of the male figure and fascination with the minutiae of body language and facial expression, from the 2008 nudes Orpheus Street and Ducie Street, whose titles are taken from locations near Price's London studio; through small heads, such as Untitled (Cornrows) made in 2010; to sculptures on plinths made in 2011 — small - scale and unassuming black male figures with relaxed postures and dressed in casualwear.

The ten portraits depict single black male figures wearing the ruff of feathers that has become a familiar motif in her work.

In Di Grass - Beyond the Bladez (2014) is ornate: Fields of green, yellow, and red obscure a prostrate black male figure with a bleached face.

Over the past ten years, New York - based artist Jeff Sonhouse (b. 1968) has created a powerful body of portrait paintings depicting often - masked black male figures that consistently defy and obscure classification.

His work explores African American male identity, masculinity, notions about the father figure, and the photographic archive, by providing a frame of reference that articulates the identities of Black men.

Depicting the black male figure and the complexity of black male identity, the paintings explore masculinity, spirit, and humanity.

Wilson's installation features four headless black male figures dressed in the security guard uniforms of major museums including the Whitney.

The face and chest are of a white male, yet the bottom half of the figure belongs to a black man.

Embracing new trends in portraiture and confronting the pervasive lack of African American figure models in the classroom environment, this workshop celebrates the nude, black male body!

Figures from June 2007 suggest that one third of young black males are on the NDNAD, as compared with one eighth of young white males.