As Symbol & Concept

As Symbol & Concept grapples with the loaded meanings, narratives, and codes of "blackness," while using it as a formal tool. This series was concieved in response to a seminar held by Abstract Expressionist Ad Reinhardt in 1967, titled "Black as Symbol and Concept."

Here, limitation becomes amplification. A restrained palette of monochromatic black materials heightens the subtle distinctions of charcoal, graphite, and oil-based mediums, sharpening their opacities, textures, and specular reflections, and exposing how fraught our relationship is to the inexorable field of signification.

 

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