a curious blindness
a curious blindness reflects a moment captured by eighteen early- to mid-career artists who engage with the complex climate of race and identity politics. Despite their varied backgrounds and influences, there is a shared consciousness of how people of color are treated and represented in a purportedly post–racial era. The selection of works within the exhibition responds and reacts to the institutionalized racism that permeates the quotidian through media, consumer capitalism, and the art-historical canon. The artists are influenced by ideas of portraiture, seriality, and the consumable that evoke the ways in which the body of color has been objectified and abbreviated through time.
SELECTED WORKS
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Slide 1: Girl (Chitra Ganesh and Simone Leigh). My dreams, my works must wait till after hell…, 2011. Video still courtesy the artists
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Slide 2: Sondra Perry. Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera II, 2013. Video still courtesy of the artist.
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Slide 3: Timothy Hyunsoo Lee. From the series gooneys, 2014. Installation photo courtesy Sabrina Amrani Gallery and the artist.
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Slide 4: Paul Anthony Smith. Port Antonio Market #4, 2013. Photo by E.G. Schempf, courtesy Zieher Smith & Horton, New York and the artist.
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Slide 5: Elia Alba. Busts (Rocio and James), 2009. Photo courtesy the artist. Jayson Musson. Pygmalion II, 2012. Photo courtesy Salon 94, New York.
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Slide 6: Jayson Musson. Pygmalion II, 2012. Photo courtesy Salon 94, New York.
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Slide 7: Ling Chung. American Born Chinese, 2013. Photo courtesy the artist.
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Slide 8: Nora Howell. Whitening Tube, 2011. Photo courtesy the artist.
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Slide 9: SunTek Chung. Ich r us, 2006. Photo courtesy the artist.