The Paducah Project

A. I. R. Studio, Paducah, Kentucky

March 3 - 31, 2017

(special thanks to Dr. Estelle Cooke-Sampson, Debbi Dabney, Alonzo Davis, Cathy Neri, Michael Terra, Susan Mitz, The Paducah Fiber Artists Guild and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for their support of this project.)

Materials

quilt batting and fabric interfacing (painted white using mixture of latex and Liquitex gloss medium)

Golden acrylics, chalk pastels, coloring pencils, graphite, oil stick, cotton thread

Process (in any order)

Paint Cut Weave Stitch Draw

Subject: INTERSECTIONS

              (referenced by parts crossing)   

MATERIAL          PLACE            TRADITION

RACE                  GENDER            HISTORY

CULTURE          NARRATIVE      FINE ART

PAINTING           OBJECT             PICTURE

starting point: "intersectional"
                         one long braid (humanity/connectedness/binding/chains)

                         black brown yellow red white (ethnicity) 

 

ending point: braid becomes technical (no longer conceptual/subject)

Exhibition: Honfleur Gallery June 16 -August 5, 2017

Chains of Humanity
36" x 56" x 2"

Hanging Out: We the People Blacker than Blue Chocolate Caramel High Yellow and Red Bone Too
34" x 34" 

BlackBone
38" x 24.5"

Penetrating Blackness
31" x 57"

Breaking the Chains of Mental Slavery Behind Our Smiley Face Masks
18" x 66"

Balancing Act (20 Constructed Drawings)
12" x 9"

Untitled (16 panels)
21" x 21"