Knowledge Bennett “Orange is the New Black”

Knowledge Bennett “Orange is the New Black”

Joseph Gross Gallery

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The Joseph Gross Gallery presents Knowledge Bennett’s new exhibition, Orange is the New Black.

Consisting of large scale hand-pulled silkscreen pieces and acrylic paintings on canvas, Bennett’s latest series explores the African diaspora, critiquing the treatment of the Black American Community by the American government throughout history. Images of historical figures such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and President Richard Nixon, appear on “prison jumpsuit orange” canvases, chronologically identifying and offering a critique of unjust practices dating back as early as the 1930’s, through to present day.

Bennett describes the work as acting like “a magnifying glass, placed directly over the long term relationship between the American Gov’t and the Black Community. A relationship where corruption, oppression, and systematic disenfranchisement is all too familiar.”

Media

• Painting
• Prints

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