#reneecox

Artists & their work in Miami: 1. Roberto Lugo at the Wolfsonian 2. Renée Cox at Sibyls Shrine at Prizm Art Fair. 3. Friends with You at Art Basel Miami. 4. Larry Li at Residency Art Gallery at Art Basel 5. Leandro Erlich at the Pérez Art Museum. 6. Sofía Maldonado at Galería Petrus at Pinta Art Fair. 7. Zoe Buckman at Pippy Houldsworth at ABMB. 8. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at Superblue

“The Paradigm Shift of the Marker.” by @reneecoxstudio 📸 From SOUL CULTURE @ Columbia Museum of Art , Columbia South Carolina. @kerryjamesmarshall . . #supportblackart #reneecox #reneecoxstudio #soulculture #kerryjamesmarshall #photgraphy #art #photomanipulation #3d #southcarolina #blackart #columbiamuseumofart #blkcreatives #artgram #artworld #artlover #visualart #veryblack #artvisuals #artoninstagram (at Columbia Museum of Art)

Happy Birthday Renee Cox!!! Jamaican born American Artist, Photographer & Political Activist!!! @ReneeCoxStudio #ReneeCox #islandpeeps #islandpeepsbirthdays #Artist #Photographer (at Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica)

Via @critical.objects Renée Cox @ReneeCoxStudio is often described as provocative or controversial, even by herself on her own website. The Jamaican-American artist’s exquisitely staged photographs do the work of inserting Black bodies into white-dominated imageries or symbolically liberating them from oppressive stereotypes. In her “Yo Mama” series, Cox recasts iconic Christian artworks—Michelangelo’s Pietà, Leonardo’s Last Supper—with herself and other African American models performing as the protagonists, often in the nude. The project was rebuked by Rudy Giuliani when it was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum in 2001, which is probably the root of the “controversy” surrounding her work, but in hindsight this of course says much more about the righteous racism of Giuliani and the neocon movement he championed. For in fact, to be outraged by these works is to object to the presence of naked Blackness but to have no problem with white nudity in the long history of art. It is to say that people with Black skin have no right to Christianity, a religion millions of African-descended people were forced to adopt but that they transformed into something beautiful, a mechanism of survival, communal celebration, and even resistance. That Cox’s conceptually straightforward gesture could provoke such an incendiary response speaks to the urgency of her project and others like it. 〰 Renée Cox, Yo Mama’s Pieta, 1996 ❤️ 〰 #supportblackart #reneecox #criticalobjects #yomama #photography #blkcreatives #blackexcellence #blackgirlmagic #jamaicanartist #diaspora #artistlife #artworld #artnerd #bgwac #blavity #artofvisuals

#reneecox (at East Hampton, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiWh1QijbHS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Sculptural work by Renee Cox from her exhibition titled “Soul Culture” at the Hannah Traore Gallery in NYC, up through May 28th. #reneecox #reneecoxstudio #sculpture #soulculture #nyc #artgallery #hannahtraoregallery (at Hannah Traore Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd_96KmlQUk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Renee Cox! Thank YOU!!! Thank you for being such a visionary artist. Thank you for being such a revolutionary woman. Thank you for being beyond radical! ...and Thank you for pushing me out of my comfort zone and then choosing said effort as one of your fave of the decade🙌🏾❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🏾 WOW(is an understatement). Initially when I showed up to the set of “The Signing” with costumes & fascinators in hand it was to be behind the scenes working in the wardrobe department. But when someone as brilliant as yourself says get dressed and go to hair and makeup, you go! WOW this is a complete honor. Thank YOU! I see you @beau_mccall ❤️😘 #ReneeCox #Artist #Visionary #TheSigning #AshakaGivens #TimeMagazine #TopTen #BlackImagesMatter https://www.instagram.com/p/B6_LGfIFnqV/?igshid=bi8a0v862wt8