#tschabalalaself

This is not survival. This is supremacy through self-control.

Photos by RJ Eldridge

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224794

Artist Tschabalala Self uses a variety of materials—like paint, fabric, and recycled materials—to collage and create figures that explore attitudes toward race and gender. In her large-scale painting “Pant,” which the museum recently acquired, a female figure stands unapologetically open-legged. A third, yellow leg protrudes from her body, alluding to the stereotype “who wears the pants,” an idiom that assumes a heteronormative masculine role. By exploring the black body in this way, Self asserts its power and ability to expand its identity. On view now in “Present Tense: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art." 

Via @marciakure: Dis/assembly: The body in abstraction: #nicolavassell in conversation with @marciakure , #tschabalalaself and #derrickadams in a panel chaired by Nicola Vassell (Founder, Concept NV), artists, #marciakure, #tschabalalaself and #derrickadams discuss strategies of collage and new media abstraction - both online and offline - in visualizing and celebrating blackness. Looking to their respective practices, the dialogue will consider how revisiting modernist and conceptual traditions of collage and dis/assembly make possible new aesthetic forms in an era of viral imaging. Date: Sunday, May 7th, 2017 Time: 2 - 3:15PM Venue: @154artfair , Forum, Pioneer Works, New York Image: @MARCIAKURE, Of Saints and Vagabonds. The Series: Potus, 2017. Collage, 23.75 Karat Gold on Arches Natural White Hot Press, Watercolor Paper, 300lb. / 640gsm, 22 x 30in. 56 x 76cm #POTUS @officinedellimmagine @purdyhicksgallery @susaninglettgallery @bloomartlagos @s_cirelli @ugomaadegoke @154artfair #supportblackart #marciakure #154artfair #africanart #africanamazing #blackart #art #contemporaryart #artlovers #artstagram #womenartists #forum #freizeweek #artisttalk #blackness #modernart #conceptualart (at Pioneer Works)

Fumi Nagasaka photographed Tschabalala Self for AnOther Magazine.