Sentences with phrase «white artists appropriating»

«I approach the possibility of concern with great respect and humility,» Winters tells me, «and with an understanding that there has been a history of white artists appropriating black voices and black works for their own ends.

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At the time, in the white community, it was not regarded as appropriate for African - American artists to practice abstraction, which was seen as the special sign of white civilization and its supposed superiority.

Her instantly recognizable — and frequently appropriated — visual style of delivering highly charged, terse phrases in white Futura Bold font over red blocks has radiated its influence on other visual artists, graphic design, mass media, and high fashion streetwear.

«It comes at such a polarized time in America,» Mia Locks, Lew's co-curator, said when asked on the issue of whether Till's murder was an appropriate subject for a white artist.

David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.

Comfortably filling the spacious, irregular proportions of the center's main gallery, the installation is composed of three distinct elements: freestanding abstract sculptures; color photographs of the artist's hands (palms out and partially covered in paint); and black - and - white videos appropriated from vintage films of competitive stone lifters (which is where the pun comes in).

This year's biennial drew protests surrounding Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till, «Open Casket» (2016), questioning the authority of white artists to appropriate images of black suffering.

Recycling Warhol's car crash paintings from the Pop artist's «Death and Disaster» series, which in turn were appropriated from photographs of fatal accidents in newspapers, Turk swaps Warhol's American car with a white van, a symbol of a certain British white working class, now dying its own kind of slow death as the demand for blue - collar labor begins to diminish.

«The Following Information» offers black - and - white photographs from two of the artist's earliest series, Blackboards and Card Catalogue (both from the 1990s) alongside recent color photographs of skies and landscapes, appropriated from paperback books.

Higgs, the director of White Columns, asked twelve artists to paint a tondo, then he tethered appropriate books to the paintings.

Commentary from artists such as Julie Ault, Andrea Bowers, Jim Hodges, Mike Kelley, and Pae White, among others, does much to argue for Kent's influence on various trajectories of contemporary art production, especially those that investigate the malleability of language, appropriate popular and commercial imagery, and foment activism.