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Apr 20–Jun 8, 2008

Black Is, Black Ain't

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.

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