digital collages that explore racial and cultural ambiguity through
visual hybridity, like the work of each artist in this exhibition, demonstrate that late 20th - century predictions of the end of traditional fine «art» practice at the dawn of digital culture were simply wrong.
Not exact matches
From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out
visual and cultural
hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descent.
By fusing the vernacular of Western portraiture with
visual motifs found in Islamic art, Fallah's paintings speak to his own
hybridity as an Iranian immigrant.
He is interested in
hybridity and interdisciplinarity, often working between science, art and industry, for instance, or between music, dance and
visual art.
Jordan Martins is a Chicago - based
visual artist whose work employs a variety of collage techniques, exploring notions of multiplicity and
hybridity with dense compositions.
Jordan Martins is a Chicago - based
visual artist whose work employs collage techniques to explore notions of multiplicity,
hybridity and
visual codes.
The
visual references to wings and body parts evoke a disorienting
hybridity, as if collage and assemblage are being used to evoke a dreamlike monstrosity.