Rashaad Newsome "Standards"
Galeria Ramis Barquet (Chelsea)
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"Standards" Rashaad Newsome’s first solo exhibition features new collage, sculpture, and video. Newsome’s work examines the visual language of power and status, juxtaposing high and low references to challenge received notions of social protocol and hierarchy. In his own words: “My works dismantle power structures, one shiny block at a time.” Sampling heavily from hip-hop and Pop culture, Newsome selects and appropriates a disparate array of visual components, restructuring them into recognizable statements and symbols. In so doing, he challenges established ideas of cultural ownership, and illustrates an acutely contemporary understanding of the way socially specific signifiers convey meaning.
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from October 22, 2009 to December 19, 2009