Sentences with phrase «referenced black stand»
«Scorched Earth,» his first solo show in Los Angeles (which concluded its run in September), referenced black stand - up comedy, HIV diagnoses in the U.S., and the L.A. uprisings in 1992.
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Unforgivable Blackness will stand as an absorbing microscope in reference to resilient black manhood in all its vulnerability and vitality.
At the gallery's basement, the viewer comes across three bodies of work: black photographic paper (coin studies), museum barriers standing in vertical position (distance keepers) and wall painting (model), that act as collage elements and manage in a quite unexpected and paradoxical way to serve as a whole new system of reference.
Among the show's other notable works is George Condo's Homage to Manet, 1985, an oil painting that references the work of the great impressionist painter, and which stands in stark contrast to Andy Warhol's exploration of colour and blurring of commercial and fine - art lines in Reflected (Purple, Red, Green and Yellow on Black), 1982 (fourth picture).
It stands in the way of someone such as Mendel - Black, who tries to wring a new, distinctive immediacy from materials and rhetoric infused with references beyond his control.
Titled Bed Pan, it is a clear reference to Manet's Olympia, with the ailing figure taking the place of the insouciant prostitute and the black orderly standing in for her maid.