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SUMMARY:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien
DESCRIPTION:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien\nMontserrat Galleries is pleased to present American Alien\, a solo exhibition by the Baltimore-based artist\, Kumasi J. Barnett. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books\, the exhibition features the artist’s ongoing series of hand-painted comic books that imbue mainstream comic genres with a present-day social consciousness. Using humor and sardonic wit\, Barnett paints directly over the original comic book cover—including such superhero classics as The Amazing Spider-Man\, The Incredible Hulk\,  Superman\, Daredevil\, and Captain America—subverting their typical storylines and tropes of good versus evil through themes of police brutality\, racial profiling\, and systemic racism and the creation of characters like “The Amazing Black-Man\,” “The Media’s Thug\,” “Whitedevil\,” and “Police-Man.” For example\, Barnett transforms The Amazing Spiderman into “The Amazing Blackman\,” substituting the hero’s recognizable red and blue leotard with a Black figure wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt—a new kind of survival armor—who battles police violence and racial injustices. Similarly\, Barnett changes Marvel’s Superboy into “The New Adventures of Whiteboy\,” a humorous commentary on today’s cancel culture. \nAcquired from years of collecting comics\, the works used in this series are personal mementos sourced from Barnett’s private collection and address his desire to create comic characters that reflect and comment upon the media’s racist and monolithic representations of the Black experience. Barnett’s collection also includes recent purchases that revisit and re-engage the artist’s youth spent among the dusty shelves of comic bookstores. By appropriating these familiar comic books\, Barnett challenges white cultural nostalgia and histories of white superheroes\, creating new comic narratives that center Black characters. Barnett harnesses a brutal\, hyper-realistic vision of America today\, reimagining a subculture of heroes who take on new super villains. By rewriting classic superhero genres\, Barnett establishes stereotypes\, prejudices\, race-based violence as part of his new evil alliance\, all attacking “The True American Heroes”. \nKumasi J. Barnett received his MFA from The Ohio State University\, and now lives and works in Baltimore\, MD. Barnett’s works have been exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad\, including exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles\, CA; the SPRING/BREAK Art Show\, New York\, NY; City Lore\, New York\, NY; Con-Artist Collective\, New York\, NY; The Arsenal Gallery\, New York\, NY; Sulphur Bath Studio\, Brooklyn\, NY; and The Brooklyn Public Library\, Brooklyn\, NY. Museum exhibitions include the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town\, South Africa; The Boca Raton Museum of Art\, Boca Raton\, FL; and most recently the Verge Center for the Arts\, Sacramento\, CA. Barnett presented a solo booth with Lowell Ryan Projects at The Armory Show 2020\, in the Focus section curated by Jamillah James. Barnett’s work has been featured in Artforum\, Ammo\, Vibe\, Hyperallergic\, Huffington Post\, Autre\, Artnet News\, and The Guardian\, among others. \nKumasi J. Barnett is represented by Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/kumasi-j-barnett-american-alien/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:December 2022 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien\nMontserrat Galleries is pleased to present American Alien\, a solo exhibition by the Baltimore-based artist\, Kumasi J. Barnett. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books\, the exhibition features the artist’s ongoing series of hand-painted comic books that imbue mainstream comic genres with a present-day social consciousness. Using humor and sardonic wit\, Barnett paints directly over the original comic book cover—including such superhero classics as The Amazing Spider-Man\, The Incredible Hulk\,  Superman\, Daredevil\, and Captain America—subverting their typical storylines and tropes of good versus evil through themes of police brutality\, racial profiling\, and systemic racism and the creation of characters like “The Amazing Black-Man\,” “The Media’s Thug\,” “Whitedevil\,” and “Police-Man.” For example\, Barnett transforms The Amazing Spiderman into “The Amazing Blackman\,” substituting the hero’s recognizable red and blue leotard with a Black figure wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt—a new kind of survival armor—who battles police violence and racial injustices. Similarly\, Barnett changes Marvel’s Superboy into “The New Adventures of Whiteboy\,” a humorous commentary on today’s cancel culture. \nAcquired from years of collecting comics\, the works used in this series are personal mementos sourced from Barnett’s private collection and address his desire to create comic characters that reflect and comment upon the media’s racist and monolithic representations of the Black experience. Barnett’s collection also includes recent purchases that revisit and re-engage the artist’s youth spent among the dusty shelves of comic bookstores. By appropriating these familiar comic books\, Barnett challenges white cultural nostalgia and histories of white superheroes\, creating new comic narratives that center Black characters. Barnett harnesses a brutal\, hyper-realistic vision of America today\, reimagining a subculture of heroes who take on new super villains. By rewriting classic superhero genres\, Barnett establishes stereotypes\, prejudices\, race-based violence as part of his new evil alliance\, all attacking “The True American Heroes”. \nKumasi J. Barnett received his MFA from The Ohio State University\, and now lives and works in Baltimore\, MD. Barnett’s works have been exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad\, including exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles\, CA; the SPRING/BREAK Art Show\, New York\, NY; City Lore\, New York\, NY; Con-Artist Collective\, New York\, NY; The Arsenal Gallery\, New York\, NY; Sulphur Bath Studio\, Brooklyn\, NY; and The Brooklyn Public Library\, Brooklyn\, NY. Museum exhibitions include the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town\, South Africa; The Boca Raton Museum of Art\, Boca Raton\, FL; and most recently the Verge Center for the Arts\, Sacramento\, CA. Barnett presented a solo booth with Lowell Ryan Projects at The Armory Show 2020\, in the Focus section curated by Jamillah James. Barnett’s work has been featured in Artforum\, Ammo\, Vibe\, Hyperallergic\, Huffington Post\, Autre\, Artnet News\, and The Guardian\, among others. \nKumasi J. Barnett is represented by Lowell Ryan Projects\, Los Angeles
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/december-2022-senior-thesis-exhibitions/
LOCATION:Carol Schlosberg Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Resplendent
DESCRIPTION:Resplendent: Identity & Visibility in Comics features the work of comic and visual artists who rewrite and reimagine how gender and identity can be represented in contemporary comics. Mainstream comics have long been dominated by white\, largely male superheroes and villains. This exhibition highlights the growing body of positive\, powerful\, and diverse depictions of LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC+ characters and story worlds. It features regional and national practitioners who bring fresh voices and new perspectives to their medium. \nComics offer a powerful platform for LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC+ artists to envision themselves. Drawing conceptual and visual connections to acts of line-making\, the exhibition explores the medium of comics as a means to delineate new spaces of belonging. Lines are elemental to the act of drawing and a defining visual feature of many comic forms. Actual and symbolic lines are also drawn\, crossed\, and joined together\, presenting opportunities for self-assertion and self-identification. Such ideas are present in the writings of the cultural theorist\, Sara Ahmed\, who proposes that lines both divide things and construct spaces that we imagine we can be in. The curator and author\, Justin Hall\, uses the metaphor of the line in his anthology\, No Straight Lines\, to alert our attention to the increasing number of queer comic artists who are creating outside of the lines of popular comic genres. \nResplendent: Identity & Visibility in Comics highlights a selection of the many comic artists who use words and images to explore the politics of identity and to express ideas of beauty\, joy\, and abundance. From graphic memoirs\, serialized strips\, and web comics to fantastical stories and commanding autobiographical narratives\, the exhibition brings together a wide range of themes and media that celebrate the imaginary and private lives of their creators. \nLawrence Lindell\, Breena Nuñez\, and A.K. Summers draw intimate personal stories that are powerful\, poignant\, and sometimes humorous accounts of real life. The comics and comics-inspired work of Chitra Ganesh\, Rumi Hara\, and Bishakh Som conjure sumptuous and dream-like imagery to articulate the intersections of cultural and gender identity. \nThe complexities of queer love and friendship are taken up in the comics of Paige Braddock\, Jennifer Camper\, and Jessica Campbell. Raúl the Third also explores themes of friendship through the adventures of an eclectic group of LatinX characters\, while collaborators Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s slice of life comics pay tribute to the beauty of and relationships between Black women. \nLavaughan Jenkins and Karmimadeebora McMillan\, both painters\, create comics as part of their larger creative practice and as a platform to address racial identity and systemic racism. \nAnd the work of interdisciplinary artists Edie Fake and Lilli Carré focus on transformations of the physical body. Fake’s comics are surreal explorations of non-binary bodies and sexual experiences. Carré’s animation examines the malleable female body represented throughout history. \nResplendent: Identity and Visibility in Comics is curated by Lynne Cooney\, Ph.D.\, Director of Exhibitions and Galleries at Montserrat College of Art.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/resplendent/
LOCATION:Montserrat Gallery\, 23 Essex St\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Rixy: In Between the Bites of Cúcala
DESCRIPTION:“A Bite of Cúcala” is an excerpt of the solo exhibition “Enter the Cúcala” by the Greater Boston artist displaying the collection of the fluorescent story world ‘Cúcala’ and its survived femme characters. This bite brings in two ends of the island: The quiet line between wholesome farm living and self-sufficient solitude\, and a bimbo-like whiplash of a girls’ night out around questionable city slickers. Both scenes\, based on true situations\, provide balance to healing attached to the perspectives and battle scars that inform the next episodes of our stories.
URL:https://www.montserrat.edu/event/rixy-in-between-the-bites-of-cucala/
LOCATION:Frame 301 Gallery\, 301 Cabot Street\, Beverly\, MA\, 01915\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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