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Cover Art

The Mothertongue Project – Walk: South Africa (2014 – 2019)

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Artist Statement Rao crafted The Walk after the rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey, a 23-year-old student who was tortured, raped, and killed by six men on a Delhi bus in December 2012. A few months later, we decided, with Rao’s permission, to create our own version of Walk as a response to the […]

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Lavett Ballard – Her View (2016)

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Artist Statement I view my art as a re-imagined visual narrative of people of African descent. My use of imagery reflects social issues affecting primarily black women’s stories within a historical context. My current body of work uses collaged photos adorned with paint, oil pastels, and metallic foils. These photos are deconstructed and layered on […]

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Maggie Taylor, Reluctant Optimist (2013)

Posted on September 19, 2020 by amazzaschi in Cover Art No Comments

  Artist Statement Since 1997 I have been using a flatbed scanner, a computer and small digital cameras as my primary tools for capturing fragments of reality. I weave these slices of time together digitally to create dreamlike worlds inhabited by everyday objects and slightly out-of-the-ordinary people. I rarely photograph contemporary people-I prefer collecting and […]

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Michele Pred – Power of the Purse (2016–2019)

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Artist Statement I chose purses as my canvas as a way to marry the powerful, politically charged language of today’s resistance with representations of women’s modern economic power and the possibilities for change that come with it. For me, the use of purses from the mid-twentieth century also calls back to that critical era in […]

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Julie Mehretu – Sing, Unburied, Sing (J.W.) (2018)

Posted on March 5, 2020 by amazzaschi in Cover Art No Comments

  Artist Statement The past five years have seen a significant shift in the development of Julie Mehretu’s paintings; in place of meticulous architectural renderings, the starting point for the most recent series of works is the immediacy and urgency of photojournalism. Contemporary news photographs, of global events ranging from the riots in Charlottesville and […]

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Alison Saar – Grow’d (2019)

Posted on December 9, 2019 by amazzaschi in Cover Art No Comments

Artist Statement This work depicts a cast bronze female figure seated on a bale of cotton. Branches of cotton extend upward from her hair, reaching for the sky. “Grow’d” is the final chapter of a series of works that centered around the character of Topsy from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In the book, […]

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Faith Ringgold – Echoes of Harlem (1980)

Posted on August 19, 2019 by amazzaschi in Cover Art

Artist Statement I became an artist in the tumultuous 1960s. By the early 1970s I had developed both vision and voice as a black woman artist in America. I went to West Africa in the 1970s and returned home inspired to write my memoir. We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold was […]

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Ida Applebroog – Emetic Fields (1985)

Posted on May 22, 2019 by amazzaschi in Cover Art No Comments

Artist Statement I made use of medical data as titles.  An emetic is a substance that brings on vomiting. I used two people whom we connect to power, namely a surgeon and royalty.  The surgeon who may be in the middle of a heart attack.  A queen (Queen Elizabeth) with really no power (besides, she […]

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Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth (2007)

Posted on February 20, 2019 by amazzaschi in Cover Art No Comments

  Artist Statement Shibboleth is a subterranean chasm that stretches the length of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The concrete walls of the crevice are ruptured by a steel mesh fence, creating a tension between these elements that resist yet depend on one another. By making the floor the principal focus of the project, Salcedo […]

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Shahzia Sikander – Ready to Leave (1997)

Posted on November 29, 2018 by amazzaschi in Cover Art No Comments

Artist Statement Ready to Leave was made in response to the straightjacketing that I encountered in terms of my biography in the mid- to late nineties in the US.  The journey to explore the personal had already started in Pakistan in my work.  With the distance from “home,” the process of self-actualization came into focus. […]

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