Shifting Gaze: A Reconstruction of The Black & Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art
The artists gathered in this exhibition have all drawn upon art history, American history, and popular culture to create powerful works that, independently and collectively, present a broad range of concepts about identity, beauty, belonging, and poignant issues of race.
The works by 26 internationally regarded artists resonate in timely considerations into the shifting gaze occurring now in our global society with artists at the fore in challenging perceptions about the way we may or may not look at the 鈥榦ther.鈥� The power behind these images鈥攁ll referencing the body or its absence鈥攊n painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, proposes a new visual language as an alternative to constructs about the black and brown body and the
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The artists gathered in this exhibition have all drawn upon art history, American history, and popular culture to create powerful works that, independently and collectively, present a broad range of concepts about identity, beauty, belonging, and poignant issues of race.
The works by 26 internationally regarded artists resonate in timely considerations into the shifting gaze occurring now in our global society with artists at the fore in challenging perceptions about the way we may or may not look at the 鈥榦ther.鈥� The power behind these images鈥攁ll referencing the body or its absence鈥攊n painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, proposes a new visual language as an alternative to constructs about the black and brown body and the
Artists on show
- Carlos Vega
- Clotilde Jimenez
- Ebony G. Patterson
- Farley Aguilar
- Hank Willis Thomas
- Jamel Shabazz
- Jenny Jones
- Kyle Meyer
- Lamar Peterson
- Lavar Munroe
- Luis Gispert
- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
- Mark Thomas Gibson
- Mickalene Thomas
- Nate Lewis
- Nate Young
- Nathaniel Donnett
- Nina Chanel Abney
- Paul Henry Ramirez
- Radcliffe Bailey
- Samuel Levi Jones
- Shawn Theodore
- Toyin Odutola
- Vaughn Spann
- Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz
- Yoan Capote
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