Sentences with phrase «tackling issues of identity»

Rohn moved to Miami in 1992 and began exhibiting and and practicing performance art, incorporating interactive and situational elements with installation, self - portraiture and video tackling issues of identity, gender and social practice.

L.A. artist Nery Gabriel Lemus tackles issues of identity, division and solidarity in a new series of works at Charlie James Gallery in Chinatown.

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by Walter Chaw The rare film to encapsulate the macro and the micro with eloquence and no little existential disquiet, Andrew Jarecki's amazing documentary Capturing the Friedmans tackles issues like the nature of film, the slipperiness of memory, and the unreliability of identity in ways that are uncomfortable and prickly.

Budhos, author of two other novels that focus on immigrant teens (Ask Me No Questions, 2006, and Tell Us We're Home, 2010), presents another effective coming - of - age novel, one that not only confronts without reservation the notion of Islamaphobia and issues of teenage identity but also tackles the grittier aspects of life in this post-9 / 11 era.

To us, her superbly intellectual approach to a variety of media suggests a remarkable affinity with fellow gallery artists Roni Horn and Zoe Leonard, as well as Rashid Johnson, Mark Bradford, and others tackling complex issues of identity.

The list is more overtly political than in previous years, featuring artists tackling issues of post-colonialism and migration, queer identity, human rights abuses and racial violence.

«SELF REFLECTION is an intersectional approach to issues of «gender, identity, sexuality, body image, censorship, and self - liberation,» says The Untitled Space Gallery, and the artists involve use their own autonomy as a means of addressing «the personal as political via self - reflection and reinvention, tackling conventional notions of female image and taboo.»

Her narratives unfold in elaborate tableaux that tackle issues of race, slavery, sexuality, identity, and power.

Women from different backgrounds came together to make posters and calendars that tackled issues of sexuality, identity and oppression.

Re — al — ized features drawings, photography, video and paintings that tackle relevant and provocative issues of African - American ethnic identity, coming from six distinctive voices.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976, Plainfield, N.J.) regularly tackles issues of pop culture through the lenses of race, identity, advertising, and corporate branding.

Performa 17 demands close considerations of today's most pressing social issues, tackling the multiplicity of African identities, how performance is shaped by the built environment and vice versa, and how Dadaism remains salient in the subversive consciousness of contemporary artists.

The questions of assumptions about male heroes and female heroines, about the issues of identity politics and gender studies, coinciding with deconstructivist views of art history and more, are tackled in Kass's wide repertoire of silkscreened and painted imagery.

Unknown Heroine covers four decades of pioneering work against a background of political unrest, tackling issues of female identity, consumerism and historical amnesia.

Simpson's provocative paintings and photographs tackle issues like gender, racial and sexual identity, and the concept of the human body.

While Anderson deftly dissects police brutality, rape culture and the limits of socially prescribed black male identity, Bowers tackles issues of trans liberation, labor equity and immigrant rights.

In the context of 2016, (Re) Public celebrates the self - determination and agency of the country while tackling contemporary issues in Ireland which have broader resonance globally, these include: — hidden histories of state institutional abuse (Nolan) community identity in post conflict rural border regions (North 55), issues relating to natural cycles in time, climate change and its global effects (Softday), the individual's struggle for autonomy within the field of mental health (Tighe), the importance of creative autonomy and independence for the right to self - expression in movement and dance (Donnellan) and strategies of resistance that include artistic intervention, self - organization, and collectivism (Morley).

About two dozen local and national artists tackle issues of motherhood, performance, identity and objectification in photos and paintings... read more

In «Smell the Roses,» the artist's first museum show in Los Angeles, Gaignard tackles the big issues of race, class and, especially, identity.

Formed in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, General Idea is internationally recognized for work that tackled such subjects as the myth of the artist, the role of mass media, the relationship between the body and the identity, issues of gender and sexual repression, and famously HIV / AIDS activism at a time when talking about the disease was a taboo.

The exhibition series The Neighbors investigates artistic concerns and visual languages dealing with identity, an issue tackled less as a personal exploration of ethnicity alone than as an examination of the ways in which social classes are constructed and their divisions purportedly manifested.

Six web series by women artists of the African diaspora tackle isolation, sex, identity, and social issues through entertaining webisodes.

Her narratives unfold throughout elaborate tableaux that tackle issues of race, slavery, sexuality, identity, and power.

*** Central to The Neighbors exhibition series is an investigation of the multiple ways in which artists explore identity politics today, an issue tackled less as a personal exploration of ethnicity alone than as an examination of the ways in which social classes are constructed and their divisions purportedly manifested.

Central to The Neighbors is an investigation of the artistic concerns and visual languages dealing with identity, an issue tackled less as a personal exploration of ethnicity alone than as an examination of the ways in which social classes are constructed and their divisions purportedly manifested.

The video follows in the style of PhotoSynthesis» previous award - winning instructional films STRUGGLE FOR IDENTITY and FOSTER PARENTS SPEAK, with a compelling cast of adoptive parents who tackle issues ranging from the process of adoption, to being a conspicuous family, parenting teens and helping children develop their iIDENTITY and FOSTER PARENTS SPEAK, with a compelling cast of adoptive parents who tackle issues ranging from the process of adoption, to being a conspicuous family, parenting teens and helping children develop their identityidentity.