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8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America
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Kara Walker

Film & Video (Film & Video)

In her masterpiece 8 Possible Beginnings or The Creation of African-America , Walker unravels just that, the story of struggle, oppression, escape and the complexities of power dynamics in the history following slave trade in America. Her use of contour and silhouette accentuate emotion with rigor, she reduces the narrative to black and white as gruesome acts of sex and violence address trauma, fear and suffering through a majestic play of shadow and light.

Black Star Press
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Kelley Walker

Painting (Painting)

The triptych Black Star Press is part of the series ‘The Black Star Press project’ initiated in 2004 by the American artist Kelley Walker. The images in this series are taken from a photo essay on the struggle for civil rights in Alabama, directed by Charles Moore in 1962 (and published by the magazine ‘Life’) which showed the repression of the black population and persistent inequalities in the southern United States. The title “Black Star Press” is taken from the name of the news agency where Charles Moore worked, and it refers to the young black man shot fighting for the rights of his community.

let this be us
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Richard T. Walker

Film & Video (Film & Video)

let this be us is a single-channel video by Richard T. Walker featuring the artist himself roaming around the wilderness of a deserted landscape, sporadically humming a melody, strumming a guitar, or playing a few notes on a keyboard. As he traverses between striking locations we see him carrying large photographic prints of the same landscape that he is treading, which he then rests onto tripods so that the horizon in the photograph seamlessly matches that of the real landscape. As we hear the music, Walker comes in and out of view, dissipating into the landscape as his body becomes invisible, hidden behind the photographic prints.

Phocis Pole
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Rebecca Quaytman

Painting (Painting)

R. H. Quaytman’s family on her father’s side is of Jewish heritage from Poland. In the summer of 2016, Quaytman traveled to Poland to research an upcoming retrospective exhibition taking place in Warsaw and ?ódz, the town from which her great-grandfather emigrated to the United States. Tracing her grandfather’s and great-grandfather’s origins, Phocis Pole is from a series of paintings that explores her paternal lineage.

Telescopic Pole (Tennis Balls Red) and (Tennis Balls)
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Chadwick Rantanen

Sculpture (Sculpture)

Telescopic Pole is an adjustable telescopic pole that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and is held up by its own internal pressure. The ends, protected by two, cut-open tennis balls, recall the legs of a walker. For Rantanen’s second solo exhibition at Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco in 2010, one pole was placed inside the gallery while the other was located outside.

Killed
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William E. Jones

Film & Video (Film & Video)

Killed is a video projection in which William E. Jones appropriated and edited, in a rapid sequence, a selection from the more than 68,000 censored or discarded films produced by the Farm Security Administration’s photographers between 1935 and 1943. Roy Emerson Stryker, the then director of the program, was in charge of what he called “killing” negatives by punching holes in them to render them unusable. Killed continues Jones’s use of discarded film footage seen in his video created from vintage 1970s and 1980s gay porn that was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

The Golden State
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William E. Jones

Photography (Photography)

His series, The Golden State, harkens back to his early career and his photographic training. Using a still camera to compose the fifty images of the series, Jones turns his lens on the vernacular architecture of California’s southern region, looking at the iconic and idiosyncratic spaces that define a region. William E. Jones is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose interests lie in the circulation of images—images that are broadcast, images that are hidden, and images that become imbedded in our collective consciousness.

Walk the Walk (Sam Durant)
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Native Art Department International

Installation (Installation)

The neon sign Walk the Walk (Sam Durant) overlays a Walk/Don’t Walk Sign crosswalk sign onto the text “You Are On Indian Land Show Some Respect.” The sign asks viewers to not walk on Indigenous lands without respecting it, and, switching between a walking person icon in white and a raised hand icon in red, redirects their actions. This work by Native Art Department International signals a reminder that we–the audience and institution–are located on and occupy traditional territories. The work appropriates and twists white artist Sam Durant’s You Are On Indian Land Show Some Respect (2008) in response to his work Scaffold (2012) installed in 2016-7 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Corazón del lugar del viento (Heart of the Place of the Wind)
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Sandra Monterroso

Film & Video (Film & Video)

Sandra Monterroso’s video performance titled Corazón del lugar del viento (Heart of the Place of the Wind) is inspired by Seis Cielo (Six Sky), the only female Mayan ruler to be represented in classical Mayan stelae (historical monuments dedicated to the record of important events). As the artist impersonates the ruler and goddess, she performs a ritual of tying stones and an offering of clothing. Seis Cielo’s ties with the lineages of the prehispanic Tikal and Dos Pilas kingdoms were essential in understanding the role of Mayan women as mothers and wives, and especially as rulers and healers.

Forest Gathering N.2
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Gregory Crewdson

Photography (Photography)

Forest Gathering N.2 is part of the series of photographs Beneath the Roses (2003-2005) where anonymous townscapes, forest clearings and broad, desolate streets are revealed as sites of mystery and wonder; similarly, ostensibly banal interiors become the staging grounds for strange human scenarios. These scenes are tangibly atmospheric, visually alluring and often deeply disquieting. Never anchored precisely in time or place, these and the other narratives of Beneath the Roses are rather located in the dystopic landscape of the anxious American imagination.

Ticket
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Kaoru Arima

Painting (Painting)

Arima’s free brushstrokes gesture towards traditions in Expressionist painting, and Ticket could be seen as an attempt at “pure painting” in which the aesthetics of the medium supersede content. But if his portraits resist social commentary, they nonetheless challenge conventional standards of beauty through a decided embrace of decayed forms and colors. Inspired by underground creative cultures, his paintings have the slipshod spontaneity of graffiti and other types of street art.

San Francisco, Moscone Center
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Richard Gordon

Photography (Photography)

San Francisco, Moscone Center is a silver gelatin print from the series American Surveillance , a ten-year-long project where Richard Gordon photographed surveillance cameras across USA. In the image’s foreground we see the silhouette of a man, darkened and in contrast to the bright streetscape unfolding behind him. To the left, an American flag flutters in the wind, saluting the skyscrapers—among them the iconic architecture of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

A person in a red sweater
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Kaoru Arima

Painting (Painting)

Arima’s free brushstrokes gesture towards traditions in Expressionist painting. As with the acrylic painting Ticket (also 2015), Person in Red Sweater could be seen as an attempt at “pure painting” in which the aesthetics of the medium supersede content. But if his portraits resist social commentary, they nonetheless challenge conventional standards of beauty through a decided embrace of decayed forms and colors.

Washington, D.C. Constitution Ave.
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Richard Gordon

Photography (Photography)

Washington D. C. Constitution Ave. is a silver gelatin print from the series American Surveillance , a ten-year-long project where Richard Gordon photographed surveillance cameras across USA. In the image, a woman and a child walk along Constitutional Avenue as a surveillance camera on the street post directs its gaze towards them. The otherwise quiet image then becomes an exercise of resistance: together with the other images from the series, Gordon’s photograph documents the changes that have taken place in architecture, civic life, especially in a post 9/11 experience of public space.

Let Me Be Part of a Narrative
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Taus Makhacheva

Film & Video (Film & Video)

For Taus Makhacheva, the wild, untamed side of human nature is often the foundation of many of her formal investigations. A leading voice of the younger generation based in Moscow, Makhacheva works with sculpture and installation while her preferred medium remains video. Her Dagestani (Northern Caucasian) roots draw her to this rugged land as her site of choice for many of her works.

Richard Gordon

Originally from Chicago, Richard Gordon was a self-taught photographer best known for his intelligent and masterfully printed black-and-white photographs...

Kaoru Arima

Kaoru Arima experiments with painting in order to discover new expressive forms...

Kara Walker

Rebecca Quaytman

In her work, Rebecca Quaytman displays great interest in the dissolution of the image...

William E. Jones

Richard T. Walker

Gregory Crewdson

Kelley Walker

Native Art Department International

Native Art Department International is a collaborative project created in 2016 and administered by Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan...

Taus Makhacheva

Taus Makhacheva’s performance and video works critically examine what happens when different cultures, traditions come into contact with one another...

Chadwick Rantanen

Sandra Monterroso

Sandra Monterroso is a Guatemalan artist of Maya Q’eqchi’ decent...

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about 3 months ago (02/12/2024)

Uncovering Britain’s Groundbreaking Black-British Women Photographers | AnOther February 05, 2024 Text Elodie Saint-Louis Lead Image Eileen Perrier, ‘Untitled’ from the series Afro Hair and Beauty Show, 1998, from Shining Lights by Joy Gregory (ed.) (MACK, 2024) Courtesy of the artist and MACK In Shining Lights , the “first critical anthology to bring together the groundbreaking work of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s ”, a constellation of rarely-seen stars finally take their rightful place in the sky...

Kara Walker
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about 3 months ago (01/17/2024)

Brent Sikkema, the Manhattan art dealer renowned for representing artists such as Jeffrey Gibson and Kara Walker found dead The post Brent Sikkema – Visionary Art Dealer Of Jeffrey Gibson And Kara Walker Murdered appeared first on Artlyst ....

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about 5 months ago (12/15/2023)

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about 5 months ago (12/14/2023)

MARQUIS DE SADE by Charles Daniel McDonald – A Shaded View on Fashion ´ Sade: Freedom or Evil ´ is an exhibition that delves into the influence and reputation of the infamous French writer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade , from whom the term ´sadism´ derives and it’s a journey not for the faint-hearted...

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about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)

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about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)

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about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)

‘We laughed and cried a lot’: a Japanese photographer in Alabama – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian Skip to main content ‘We laughed and cried a lot’: a Japanese photographer in Alabama – in pictures ‘He looked very proud’ … Matthew in His Car, 2019 The Band, 2017 When Japanese photographer Fumi Nagasaka was invited by her friend Tanya to visit her home town of Dora, Alabama, it proved to be a moment of creative inspiration...

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about 5 months ago (12/06/2023)

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about 5 months ago (12/06/2023)

Jesse Darling wins the Turner Prize...

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about 5 months ago (12/05/2023)

The Dallas-Fort Worth Art Exhibitions You Must See Before 2023 Ends - D Magazine Skip to content Menu Search One brand, four magazines...

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about 5 months ago (12/05/2023)

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about 5 months ago (12/03/2023)

Turner prize 2023 – and the winner should be… | Turner prize 2023 | The Guardian Skip to main content Skip to navigation Skip to navigation Clockwise from top left: works by 2023 Turner prize contenders Ghislaine Leung, Jesse Darling, Barbara Walker and Rory Pilgrim at Towner Eastbourne...

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about 5 months ago (11/30/2023)

NYC Selected Gallery Guide: Dec 2023 – Two Coats of Paint Bortolami: Jutta Koethe in “ Good Luck Spot ” Hey galleries and artists! If you have enjoyed being included in our NYC Selected Gallery Guide and find it a helpful way to get the word out to promote your exhibitions, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Two Coats of Paint ...

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about 5 months ago (11/29/2023)

William Anastasi, a prominent Conceptual artist, has died at 90...

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about 5 months ago (11/28/2023)

Oscar yi Hou, Gisela McDaniel, and Kapp Kapp named in Forbes’s 30 Under 30...

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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)

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about 37 months ago (04/16/2021)

Join us this summer for a community sculpture by Rashid Johnson and an experimental opera for trees by Kamala Sankaram - Creative Time Join us this summer for a community sculpture by Rashid Johnson and an experimental opera for trees by Kamala Sankaram April 16th, 2021 Tweet Email Today, Creative Time announces forthcoming public projects that anticipate that this summer, after months of isolation and trauma, art in the public realm will play a significant role in helping New Yorkers celebrate their city, reconnect with their communities, and reestablish relationships with the natural world around them...

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about 53 months ago (12/30/2019)

Vaughan Oliver, the artist behind so many memorable LP covers from 4AD, has died at 62...

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about 62 months ago (04/01/2019)

Weekly Picks: Malaysia (1-7 Apr 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do April 1, 2019 For events in Penang this week, go to the Penang Free Sheet ...

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about 151 months ago (12/15/2011)

Banksy sculpture targets church sex abuse | The Independent | The Independent A sculpture of a "vandalised" priest by the underground artist Banksy has gone on display today alongside 17th-century Old Masters...

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