Glenn Ligon, Warm Broad Glow, 2005.
Glenn Ligon, Warm Broad Glow, 2005.
Glenn Ligon, Warm Broad Glow, 2005.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Randy Regier, Impending Future Bus, 2004.
Randy Regier, Detail of Impending Future Bus, 2004.
Terry Adkins, Darkwater Record, 2003.
William Pope.L, Skin Set Drawings, 2008.
William Pope.L, From Skin Set Drawings, 2008.
William Pope.L, One Substance, Eight Supports, One Situation, 2008.
Thomas Johnson, What a Black Man Feels Like, 2004.
Edgar Arceneaux, Failed Attempt at Crystallization, 2002.
Edgar Arceneaux, Failed Attempt at Crystallization, 2002.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
William Pope.L, From Skin Set Drawings, 2008.
William Pope.L, From Skin Set Drawings, 2008.
Robert A. Pruitt, For Whom the Bell Curves, 2004.
Daniel Roth Cabrini, Green Forest (Portal), 2004.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Thomas Johnson, What a Black Man Feels Like, 2004.
Thomas Johnson, A White Man Listens To Himself, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Black Is, Black Ain’t, Installation View, 2008.
Taking its title from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, this exhibition will explore a shift in the rhetoric of race from an earlier emphasis on inclusion to a present moment where racial identity is being simultaneously rejected and retained. The exhibition will bring together works by 26 black and non-black artists whose work together examines a moment where the cultural production of so-called “blackness” is concurrent with efforts to make race socially and politically irrelevant.
