Double Take: The Art of Amalgam and stereo*type* |
Double Take: The Art of Amalgam and stereo*type*
The Incluseum: Museums and Social Inclusion
2014-04-23
Aletheia Wittman, co-founder
In this post The Incluseum highlights the new work of some of Seattle’s industrious artist…
Two recent exhibits have disrupted the reliability of the first impression. The artwork prompts a second, longer, deeper look.
Right now at Gallery4Culture (until Friday) you can visit Dave Kennedy’s Amalgam and experience a body of work that playfully and concisely draws attention to this process of destabilizing first impressions/assumptions. Large format photographs appear to be still lifes of immediately recognizable food items. With a closer gaze, the precise and deliberate sculpting of different types of edible organic matter to create a cohesive whole comes into focus.
The video work in Amalgam offers Kennedy’s take on the nature of his many layered and multiracial identity. A reminder that people, as well as art, can be stereotyped, labeled and generalized about – acts that are challenged by how Kennedy chooses to represent aspects of himself within his work; how he navigates through space, time and memory…
Read the entire article here.
Tags: Aletheia Wittman, Barbara Earl Thomas, C. Davida Ingram, Dave Kennedy, Duriel E. Harris, Francine J. Harris, Krista Franklin, Natasha Marin, the incluseum, the incluseum: museums and social inclusion