"Young, Gifted, and Black: Transforming Visual Media" Exhibition
Baxter Street/ the Camera Club of NY
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Young, Gifted & Black: Transforming Visual Media, guest-curated by Shanté Cozier and Dionne Lee, presents five artists using the mediums of film, video, and photography to propel a shift in the ways that cultural identity is understood. This exhibition, part of CCNY’s Guest Curators Program, brings together a diverse group who counter cultural stereotypes with new forms of identity and self-expression through their work.
Throughout the history of the black diaspora, the constant creation and delivery of images via the media and pop culture has profoundly shaped the expectations of many. The danger of these images is its lack of diversity and its limited understanding of people of African descent. The breadth and width of the history of the black diaspora is immense, and attempts by the mainstream to categorize it inadvertently and unjustly condense that history. To rectify this, images that act as cultural indicators need be transformed. Working from personal experience, the artists in this exhibition offer powerful, multi-faceted explorations of their own identities. The artists and curators of this exhibition believe it is this broad range of everyday experience and an emphasis on a greater understanding of the self that deserves more public attention, compared to the predictable and misleading stereotypes that so often inundate this society. The multi-media approach, and the active imagery used by the artists in Young, Gifted & Black, echoes the call for a more compelling picture of the multi-faceted, evolving, cultural identity of the African diaspora, propelling forward an understanding of cultural identity beyond the stagnant, singular, and often over-simplified conceptions that have been presented throughout history by pop-culture and mass media.
[Image: Sondra Perry]
Media
Schedule
from November 08, 2012 to December 15, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-11-08 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Mohau Modisakeng, Terence Nance, Numa Perrier, Sondra Perry, Xaviera Simmons