Felandus Thames "Mixtape"

Jenkins Johnson Projects

poster for Felandus Thames "Mixtape"

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Though it actively defies tidy categorization, Thames’s work courts the eye, mind and memory with what must be called a post soul poetics. The impulse of the generation following the civil rights generation toward the use of 1960s and 1970s iconography loosened from its original context, floating now in the popular lexicon, newly defined by Thames in a way that maintains historical resonance, but also imbues it with a fresh interpretation. - Key Jo Lee, Graduate Fellow of Art History and African American Studies at Yale University.

Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York presents Mixtape, the first New York solo exhibition by multimedia artist Felandus Thames. Mississippi-born Felandus Thames, who received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University, creates a broad and varied body of artwork that includes photography, painting, screen-printing, multimedia works, and installations. His diverse oeuvre references American and cultural history to create a narrative around race, politics, culture, and history. The works in Mixtape make use of Harlem Renaissance poetry, modern hip hop lyrics, Jazz poetry, spoken word performance, and African American archetypes to draw parallels between historical and contemporary African American identity.

[Image: Felandus Thames "I Would Rather Be" (2012) children's wooden blocks, chalkboard, paint, tri-ply panel, wood glue, nails, and pine, 23.25 x 23 in.]

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Schedule

from September 06, 2012 to October 27, 2012
Closing Party & Panel Discussion: Thursday, October 25, 2012 6 - 8pm

Opening Reception on 2012-09-06 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Felandus Thames

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