Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture
Curated by Contemporary Arts Center鈥檚 Resident Curator, Shana M. griffin, Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture explores the production of Black visual culture, bringing attention to the ways contemporary photographers and visual artists regularly wield the power of the camera and their creative practices to discern, behold, celebrate, and document people, places, events, collective memories, encounters, and other ever-present moments of Blackness that refuse the violence of erasure and subjectivity.
In the introduction of Listening to Images, Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art Tina M. Campt states: 鈥淔or blacks in the diaspora, both quiet and quotidian are mobilized as everyday practices of refusal.鈥� Such gestures of refusal, which are neither passive nor restrained, are regularly exercised and creatively engaged by Black photographers and visual artists, who challenge everyday forms of violence, subjectivity, and erasure through the lens of their camera and creative practices.
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Curated by Contemporary Arts Center鈥檚 Resident Curator, Shana M. griffin, Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture explores the production of Black visual culture, bringing attention to the ways contemporary photographers and visual artists regularly wield the power of the camera and their creative practices to discern, behold, celebrate, and document people, places, events, collective memories, encounters, and other ever-present moments of Blackness that refuse the violence of erasure and subjectivity.
In the introduction of Listening to Images, Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art Tina M. Campt states: 鈥淔or blacks in the diaspora, both quiet and quotidian are mobilized as everyday practices of refusal.鈥� Such gestures of refusal, which are neither passive nor restrained, are regularly exercised and creatively engaged by Black photographers and visual artists, who challenge everyday forms of violence, subjectivity, and erasure through the lens of their camera and creative practices.
Artists on show
- Abdul Aziz
- Adrien Broussard
- Ashley Lorraine
- Benicia King
- Bruce Sunpie Barnes
- Bruce Williams
- Bryan Berteaux
- Bryan Hithe
- Carla Williams
- Cecelia Fernandes
- Cedric A. Ellsworth
- Chandra McCormick
- Chanelle Harris
- Charlene Legaux Richard
- Christine CFreedom Brown
- Clifton J. Faust
- Corey Anthony
- Danette M. Vincent
- Danielle C. Miles
- Dawnie Marie
- Dean Gage
- Delaney George
- Durado Brooks
- Dwight Harris
- Ellis Marsalis III
- Epaul Julien
- Eric Waters
- Felicita Maynard
- Gason Ayisyin
- Giani Jones
- Gillian Maris Jones
- Girard Mouton III
- Gus
- Harold Baquet
- Heidi Hickman
- Irving Johnson III
- J Nash Porter
- J.R. Thomason
- Jacques Detiege
- Jafar M. Pierre
- Jamal Denzel Barnes
- Jason R. A. Foster
- Jeremy Tauriac
- Jeri Hilt
- Jose Cotto
- Jourdan Barnes
- Keith Calhoun
- Kevin Jones
- Kewon Hunter
- L. Kasimu Harris
- Larry Everage
- Larry Songy
- Leslie-Claire Spillman
- Lidya Araya
- Lindsey Smith Hall
- Lloyd Dennis
- Lloyd J. Medley Jr.
- Malcolm Johnson
- Malik Baloney
- Malik Bartholomew
- Malik Williams
- Marion J. Porter
- Maurice Martinez
- Melissa Carrier
- Monique Moss
- Morris Jones Jr.
- Najah Mushatt
- Nicholas Anderson Hall
- Nikki Brown
- Norman R. Smith
- Nyejah Bolds
- Othello Carter
- Peter G. Forest
- PRO$PER JONE$
- Quinn Gordon
- Remy Blessed the Freaks Williams
- Renee Royale
- Ric Francis
- Richard V. Keller Sr.
- Rita Harper
- Roland Guerin
- Saddi Khali
- Sekou Fela
- Selwhyn Polo Silk Terrell
- Shabez Jamal
- Shana M. Griffin
- Shaquille Dunbar
- Sienna Pinderhughes
- Sokari Ekine
- Sophia Little
- Sorena Briley
- Taylor Hunter
- Ted Quant
- Terri Mimms
- Todd Smith
- Trenity Thomas
- Vincent Simmons
- Will Horton
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