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Nka (2017) 2017 (40): 44–55.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Ana Balona de Oliveira This essay examines Edson Chagas’s Found not Taken series (2008–), taking into account some of its main contexts of production and reception (from London and Newport to Luanda; from Luanda to Venice and London) while placing it in the broader framework of the artist’s...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 18–25.
Published: 01 May 2001
... was "going to put Jones Road on the map." This, Ringgold is doing in a variety of ways. The Jones Road Series and The Anyone Can Fly Foundation The Jones Road series will "channel" (Ringgold's Photographic portrait of Faith Ringgold. term) a multi-part narrative from the late...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (27): 76–81.
Published: 01 November 2010
... and surface. In the exhibi- During installation, Gush purchased thick, matte tion Sidestep, the series of transparent plastic sten- black rope from a store near the gallery. When it cils recalls the cut-­out window. To read the stencils, came to the music stands on which he would dis- you must find...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 32–41.
Published: 01 November 2014
... 2013, I had the opportunity to conduct a series of conver- sations with John Outterbridge. He exudes Dsuch feelings of calm and resoluteness that you...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (34): 60–65.
Published: 01 May 2014
... the aesthetic value and sub- rary trends, include the marching band tradition. jective agency of the African American community. The Chicago-­based artist and filmmaker Cauleen The series of small empty gilded frames — held by Smith has taken up this tradition, mixed it with the 64 • Nka Journal...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 86–97.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Isaiah Matthew Wooden Photographer and video artist LaToya Ruby Frazier’s The Notion of Family series (2001–14) strikingly looks forward through the past. The project traces its origins to Frazier’s teen years growing up in the industrial suburb of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a once-thriving mill town...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 114–126.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... DeSouza’s World Series (2011), inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series (1941), suggests bodily movement within a matrix of geopolitical, state-controlled, and natural environments, while referencing historical precedents such as Columbus. Evans’s series Please Do Not Bend (2015–16) is a touching...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 34–47.
Published: 01 November 2019
... historiography and are the least referenced, either as single works or as a series. The paradox of Bowling’s white paintings is that they are not all merely white nor are they all monochromes. A consideration of them presents an opportunity to resituate Bowling from a singular focus of formalism and to convey...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 50–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Michele Wallace In an article written by her daughter Michele Wallace, Faith Ringgold’s Black Light series is presented as part of an experiment in the 1960s quest for the creation of a “black aesthetics” best understood in relation to Ringgold’s life and the evolution of her oeuvre. Black...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 48–60.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Elizabeth W. Giorgis Ethiopian artist Dawit Abebe’s Jerba paintings were first exhibited in Addis Ababa in 2015. Jerba , a word that means “back” or “background,” is a series of mixed media and acrylic paintings concerned with historical memory and the political and cultural accounts attending...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 40–51.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Peter Erickson This essay explores Kerry James Marshall’s paintings of black artists in studio settings who are often positioned at the easel with an unfinished self-portrait. The series begins with a portrait within a portrait of a historical figure— Scipio Moorehead, Portrait of Himself, 1776...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 102–109.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Kimberli Gant This essay explores the photographic series Queen Nanny of the Maroons (2004–5) by artist Renée Cox. In the series Cox appropriates the eighteenth-century Jamaican folk hero Queen Nanny, leader of the Windward Maroon community, and brings her into the present. Very little is known...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 122–133.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Celeste-Marie Bernier Black British artist Barbara Walker works across multiple narrative series to create hard-hitting dramatic tableaux in which she does powerful justice to the psychological, physical, emotional, cultural, social, and imaginative realities of lives as lived by black women, men...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 48–59.
Published: 01 May 2010
... he brings together necessarily encourage us to deepen our knowledge of African and American history and culture. Works discussed include Lovell’s 2008 Kith and Kin exhibition at D. C. Moore Gallery in New York and his Kin Series , an ongoing sequence of images and tableaux dedicated to African...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 70–79.
Published: 01 May 2010
... installation (based on the earlier Rocher carrés ) is a series of blocks four meters high and two meters wide, made of Sheetrock panels covered with recycled gray paper, sloping at an angle of forty-five or sixty degrees. Attia intends for them to suggest urban architecture in the process of collapsing...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 82–93.
Published: 01 November 2020
... was immortalized in a series of photographs and newsreel footage that was disseminated around the world. The author contends that the events thereafter are frequently envisioned by Congolese popular painting, as it takes over from the operations of the camera in an era largely defined by the photographic...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 98–110.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Megan Kincaid; Summer Sloane-Britt This article is an expanded version of a catalogue essay written for the 2021 exhibition Cauleen Smith , H-E-L-L-O: To Do All At Once , Great Hall Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. The event was the first online exhibition of the series, due...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 6–20.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Lauren Kroiz In 1971, Harold Cousins published an essay explaining the sculptures that he had begun creating in the mid-1950s, following his relocation in October 1949 from New York to Paris. Cousins described his series named Plaiton , his own neologism combining the English word plate...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 34–46.
Published: 01 November 2022
... to surveil and compel its subjects. This article contends with the material status of the passbook, examining legacies of haptic contestation enacted upon it in protest alongside a close study of Apartheid Scrolls (1995), a series of intaglio photo-etchings by South African artist Rudzani Nemasetoni, derived...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 108–124.
Published: 01 November 2017
....” This article comes to grips with Donkor as a politically radical and aesthetically experimental painter and mixed-media assemblage artist by tracing the ways in which his hard-hitting subject matter comes to life across his UK Diaspora (2007) series. Donkor is all too aware of the ways in which a history...