Sentences with phrase «work about blackness»
Perry makes work about blackness, black femininity and African American heritage, often taking her personal history as a point of departure.
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It was characterized by artists who were adamant about not being labeled as «black» artists, though their work was steeped, in fact deeply interested, in redefining complex notions of blackness.»
About the Curator: Essence Harden (Oakland, CA) works at the intersections of blackness, art, and cultural history.
These hundreds of objects that looked like framed, matted, fields of painted blackness, worked as neutral, «generic signs» that might inspire the viewer to think about the social expectations that constructed the «idea» of a painting,» more than the actual painting itself.
Mounting Frustration also examines some of the probing debates undertaken by black artists in the 1960s and»70s about the coherence (both political and aesthetic) of the rubric of «black art» given that artists worked across so many different styles and had divergent relationships to their own identifications around blackness.
The show featured 28 up - and - coming artists whose work Golden considered to be «post-black,» a term defined by Golden as «characterized by artists who were adamant about not being labeled as «black» artists, though their work was steeped, in fact deeply interested, in redefining complex notions of blackness.»
Paul Stephen Benjamin makes nuanced works about the color black as a way to investigate «blackness.»
The value of this work is tied to Blackness in the context of struggle and state - sanctioned violence... Apparently we can not care about Blackness unless it is hurting.
Toyin Odutola Talks About Her Work in New Mexico An artist - in - residence at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico, Toyin Odutola spoke about her work — pen - and - ink drawings that focus on the blackness of skin color as a point of departure to explore matters of identity and experience — at at the campus musuem on SeptAbout Her Work in New Mexico An artist - in - residence at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico, Toyin Odutola spoke about her work — pen - and - ink drawings that focus on the blackness of skin color as a point of departure to explore matters of identity and experience — at at the campus musuem on Sept.Work in New Mexico An artist - in - residence at the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico, Toyin Odutola spoke about her work — pen - and - ink drawings that focus on the blackness of skin color as a point of departure to explore matters of identity and experience — at at the campus musuem on Septabout her work — pen - and - ink drawings that focus on the blackness of skin color as a point of departure to explore matters of identity and experience — at at the campus musuem on Sept.work — pen - and - ink drawings that focus on the blackness of skin color as a point of departure to explore matters of identity and experience — at at the campus musuem on Sept. 18.
«My work is about taking blackness past the stereotypes and opening it up to the imagination,» she told The Baltimore Sun.