Sentences with phrase «surrounding black female identity»

Artists like Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, and Mickalene Thomas have been critically acclaimed for their work surrounding black female identity.

Not exact matches

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.

During the 1970s Soltau held performances where she would bind herself and audience members in black thread, concealing their faces and confronting issues surrounding the body, female identity, censorship and silencing.