Roberts & Tilton Gallery
5801 Washington Blvd
323.549.0223
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Hank Willis Thomas, Branded Head (2003), Courtesy of the artist
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Opens Saturday June 13, 2009 (6–8pm)
June 13, 2009 – Aug 1, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz crafts expansive murals and other large-scale paintings from innumerable individual lines and details. His densely swirled, complexly engineered views of landscapes and objects mimic the controlled chaos of wind-born debris forming a funnel cloud, with imagery emerging that is both poetic and seismic. An installation in the project room from photographer and collagist Hank Willis Thomas continues Thomas' excavation of African-American stereotypes as seen and constructed in commercial and advertising lexicons. Featuring thousands of found images of black sexuality viewed through the lens of white-dominated pop culture, Black Is Beautiful is both a celebration of and a powerful push-back against politically charged iconography.
