#diamondstingily

Diamond Stingily’s contribution to this year’s New Museum Triennial is a heart-stopper. E.L.G. (2018) is a sculpture composed of a single brick balanced on the crossbar of a swing-set, a troubling scene that suggests a child in jeopardy, alluding to state-sponsored violence and its impact on black children. The Triennial capped a series of shows that have spotlighted this burgeoning talent over the last year, among them the group exhibition “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” (also at the New Museum) and “Surveillance,” a solo show at Ramiken Crucible in Los Angeles. Stingily has said that she wants to create work for people who grew up in socioeconomic environments similar to hers, subverting the idea that contemporary art is restricted to the privileged. https://www.artsy.net/series/artsy-vanguard/artsy-editors-rise

Diamond Stingily is an American artist whose work explores memory and identity through powerful, restrained installations mediated by an intentional choice of material and careful negotiation of spatial relationships. Using childhood as a universalizing inflection point, Stingily addresses neglected narratives, particularly the ignored experience of black girlhood, drawing on experiences in her mother’s hair salon and childhood diary, which was published in 2014. Stingily has used braids to materialize the historical and contemporary implications of black women’s hair, and more broadly, the physical alienation and exploitation. Structures of power emerge in unexpected presentations of familiar objects, highlighting disproportionate systemic limitation, physical violence, and surveillance. https://www.artsy.net/artist/diamond-stingily

Left the bay feeling so much gratitude and love for its community of engaged artists, arts workers, and audiences. Thank you Katya, and Marcella and Charlie of @cloaca_projects. — Thank you @jeannegerrity, @roshayag, & #diamondstingily, for trusting @kimyekimyekimye and I with activating the spaces @wattisarts. — Thank you @natashamatteson & Gravity @jewseum for facilitating the touching dialogue with members of the viewing public. — Hope to see y’all soon 😘💜🙏 (at CLOACA PROJECTS) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu4Zlp7F_kV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7go669d59y87

#diamondstingily (at New Museum)