Ashley Doggett “Inferiority Complex”

Ashley Doggett “Inferiority Complex”

Monya Rowe Gallery

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Monya Rowe Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition by Ashley Doggett titled Inferiority Complex.

In the theory of cross assimilation, the works in Inferiority Complex serve as a means to begin a conversation on identity politics surrounding the Black woman’s hair. Cultural assimilation in lieu of white beauty doctrine has long been a part of the Black woman’s identity due to the implications of chattel slavery and post-racial America. The Black hair industry is sought out as a means to further non-Black beauty standards by marketing a false sense of femininity and identity in a means to control the psyche of the Black woman and remove her from any notion of finding her original heritage as well as detract her from finding self-acceptance in her physical appearance. The instillation of dishonesty, false narratives, and self- hate find their roots in a forced notion of being one’s self through the lens of the Black woman, who has historically been the victim of a long-standing inferiority complex due to racial rhetoric.

- Ashley Doggett, 2019

Ashley Doggett (b. 1995, Nashville, TN) received a BFA from Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, Nashville, TN. Recent group exhibitions include Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA; David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN; and Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN. Her work was recently the subject of a solo exhibition at Steven Zevitas, Boston, MA. This is her first solo exhibition in New York. Doggett lives and works in Nashville, TN.

Media

• Painting

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