Author Archives: Art Participant

Charles Guice Contemporary at Photo Miami

December 3, 2008 – 2:42 PM
In his new series, Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America from 1968 to 2008, Hank Willis Thomas utilizes print advertisements from 1968 to the present, removing the entirety of the original texts and logos, and only presenting the figures... Read More »
Posted in , | Tagged | No Comments

Thomas to lecture at Lucie Awards

October 13, 2008 – 2:30 PM
Hank Willis Thomas and Sara Terry, 2008 Lucie Honoree, will speak as part of the Lucie Lecture Series on Sunday, October 19, at Splashlight Studios in Soho.  The talk, which is being presented in conjunction with En Foco and Nueva... Read More »
Posted in , | Tagged | No Comments

Pitch Blackness

October 3, 2008 – 9:00 AM
Hank Willis Thomas gained wide recognition with his highly provocative series B®ANDED, which addresses the commodification of African-American male identity by raising questions about visual culture and the power of logos. Pitch Blackness, published by Aperture, is Thomas' first monograph... Read More »
Posted in , | Tagged | No Comments

Weems' acclaimed new series opens at the Savannah College of Art and Design

October 2, 2008 – 2:00 PM
Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment, Carrie Mae Weems' critically-acclaimed new series, opens tonight at the Savannah College of Art and Design's Red Gallery, in Savannah.  The new body of work, which premiered in Atlanta in July to... Read More »
Posted in , | Tagged | No Comments

Kambui Olujimi's The Clouds Are After Me opens in Cincinnati

October 1, 2008 – 3:06 PM
Kambui Olujimi's The Clouds Are After Me premieres October 9 at the DAAP Gallery at the University of Cincinnati.  The new body of work, consisting of approximately 300 small, painted collages, explores the anxieties and phobias that permeate the public... Read More »
Posted in , | Tagged | No Comments

Hank Willis Thomas to lecture in Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco with the release of Pitch Blackness

September 26, 2008 – 10:12 PM
Aperture Foundation, the Hammer Museum, PhotoAlliance, the Henry Art Gallery, and the Seattle Art Museum present the 2008 Aperture West Collaborative Lecture Series with artist Hank Willis Thomas, winner of the inaugural Aperture West Book Prize.With his characteristic pointedness and... Read More »
Posted in , | Tagged | No Comments

Jessica Ingram's Hilltop High featured in OjodePez

September 22, 2008 – 2:30 PM
Jessica Ingram's thought-provoking series, Hilltop High, is featured in the current issue of the Spanish photography magazine OjodePez.Photographed in San Francisco at the public high school of the same name, Hilltop High, is a story about young women in high... Read More »
Posted in , | Tagged | No Comments

Deborah Willis releases new book, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs

September 18, 2008 – 1:50 PM
Deborah Willis has organized and curated a new book entitled Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs.  Through 150 striking color photographs, Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs charts the road to Barack Obama's nomination as the first African American to... Read More »
Posted in , , | Tagged , | No Comments

Kianga Ford premieres first solo museum exhibition

September 17, 2008 – 2:50 PM
My Life in Fiction, Kianga Ford's first solo museum exhibition, premieres September 20 at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore.  My Life in Fiction is a trilogy of new works for the gallery and an audio walk for the Mt. Vernon... Read More »
Posted in , | Tagged | No Comments

Hank Willis Thomas featured in the Fall Issue of Nueva Luz

September 17, 2008 – 10:00 AM
The Fall issue of Nueva Luz, a tri-annual photographic journal published by En Foco, includes an article on the work of Hank Willis Thomas.  En Foco is a non-profit organization that nurtures and supports contemporary fine art and documentary photographers... Read More »
Posted in , , | Tagged | No Comments