Can you have something that is a fetish and a phobia? Yes, Black skin. This question arose from a conversation I had with myself, resulting in a performance exhibited during a residency in Berlin. What it has come to represent are my artistic interests concerning the hybridity of the diasporic identity I embody and how …
Texture, flavor and heat are my work. I’m building a visual Patois, a practice through which I can triangulate myself between the Caribbean, New York and the innumerable cultures and cuisines yet encountered. Layers of luscious whorls draw the viewer into fields of color which operate with coded references to my histories; one, generations-long in …
Created through a series of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and personal objects, imago of a queer artist* offers space for an expanded notion of queerness as the capacity for porousness, fluidity, and transformation. The exhibition’s title (abbreviated here) is a deliberate tool providing a conceptual framework for the show and responding to overwhelming systems of categorization …
Raphaël-Bachir Osman, At the Studio, 2021. (Photo by Florian Dautecourt) At all costs, never lock yourself into a style. Always subordinate the painting to the subject. To make every detail an obsession. Finally, to avoid boredom. There are the watchwords that guide Raphaël-Bachir Osman’s pictural work. His series on the theme of delicacies honors pastries: …
Tomoko Hisamatsu, “300 Yen Paintings” 2020-, 176 x 250mm each work, acrylic and collage on paper, etc. Born and raised in Mie, Japan, Tomoko Hisamatsu studied in Yamagata, and is now based near Tokyo. As a painter, she creates mainly research-based figurative works. Tomoko’s practice is marked by her interactions with various local communities from …
To conclude Dominique Duroseau’s gal·va·nizing strat·e·gies: [Black on Black with Black] on view at Cuchifritos Gallery, Artists Alliance presents Rap on Race without Rice. A continuation of Duroseau’s ongoing participatory performance series, Rap on Race with Rice, this iteration of the project unfolds through a new series of one-on-one conversations that foster public and private …
