Let's Talk About Race

Taking its title from Ralph Ellison’s "The Invisible Man," the current exhibition at the Artspace, titled,"Black Is, Black Ain’t," explores a shift in the rhetoric of race from an emphasis on inclusion to a moment where racial identity is being simultaneously rejected and retained. The exhibition brings together works by artists whose work together examines a moment where the cultural production of so-called “blackness” is concurrent with efforts to make race socially and politically irrelevant.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Jason Lazarus
Standing at the Grave of Emmitt Till, The Day of
Exhumation, June 1, 2005, 2005
archival inkjet print
37 x 50 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago

William Pope.L
One Substance, Eight Supports, One Situation, 2008
8 pine shelves with flour cones
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist

Demetrius Oliver
Till, 2004
digital chromogenic print
27 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches
Courtesy of Private Collection

Let's Talk About Race

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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