Aesthetic Pimp Coming Through....U dig?
SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG
NOVEMBER 29, 2007 - JANUARY 20, 2008
VON LITEL GALLERY 555 WEST 25TH STREET
There's a big black pimp coming to Chelsea in a week or so. It's name? Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, the brilliant new exhibit opening at Von Lintel Gallery on Thursday, November 29th. Taking a cue from Melvin Van Peebles’ infamous 1971 film of the same name, this exhibition of fourteen African American artists is also a journey that examines the representation of African Americans in popular culture.
Afros, blackface, blinged-out slave ships and tinted sunglasses force viewers to reconsider not only their ideas about African American culture, but the “black artist” as well. Each artist takes a different approach—Renee Cox and Ifétayo Abdus-Salaam explore and question representation in American media, advertising and film; Lawrence Lee takes images of negative stereotypes and reclaims them; Barkley Hendricks and Mickalene Thomas choose to infuse an empowered, proud, dignified presence in their subjects while Titus Kaphar and Hank Willis Thomas address the idea of
perception by recontextualizing the black figure.
Artists are Dawoud Bey, Radcliffe Bailey, Iona Rozeal Brown, Zoë Charlton, Renee Cox, Michael Paul Britto, Barkley Hendricks, Titus Kaphar, Lawrence Lee, Carrie Mae-Weems, Robert Pruitt, Ifétayo Abdus-Salam, Mickalene Thomas, and Hank Willis Thomas. Curated by Collette Blanchard, the exhibition spans over 35 years and several different mediums including photography, drawings, paintings, video and installation.
[Artwork pictured: "Remember Me" by Mickalene Thomas]
NOVEMBER 29, 2007 - JANUARY 20, 2008
VON LITEL GALLERY 555 WEST 25TH STREET
There's a big black pimp coming to Chelsea in a week or so. It's name? Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, the brilliant new exhibit opening at Von Lintel Gallery on Thursday, November 29th. Taking a cue from Melvin Van Peebles’ infamous 1971 film of the same name, this exhibition of fourteen African American artists is also a journey that examines the representation of African Americans in popular culture.Afros, blackface, blinged-out slave ships and tinted sunglasses force viewers to reconsider not only their ideas about African American culture, but the “black artist” as well. Each artist takes a different approach—Renee Cox and Ifétayo Abdus-Salaam explore and question representation in American media, advertising and film; Lawrence Lee takes images of negative stereotypes and reclaims them; Barkley Hendricks and Mickalene Thomas choose to infuse an empowered, proud, dignified presence in their subjects while Titus Kaphar and Hank Willis Thomas address the idea of
perception by recontextualizing the black figure.
Artists are Dawoud Bey, Radcliffe Bailey, Iona Rozeal Brown, Zoë Charlton, Renee Cox, Michael Paul Britto, Barkley Hendricks, Titus Kaphar, Lawrence Lee, Carrie Mae-Weems, Robert Pruitt, Ifétayo Abdus-Salam, Mickalene Thomas, and Hank Willis Thomas. Curated by Collette Blanchard, the exhibition spans over 35 years and several different mediums including photography, drawings, paintings, video and installation.
[Artwork pictured: "Remember Me" by Mickalene Thomas]
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