Comments on In/Visible is Up: Sandra Jackson-Dumont's Black Art Show

Great. I love Laylah Ali's stuff!

Finally, a chance for me to appreciate your perspective argument. W7ngman and I went to SAM last Saturday, and saw this exhibit, and Victor/Victim is considerably more impressive in person. It's huge, and the pastels give it a vibrancy that is not conveyed at all in jpeg. The figures are also cut-out, not against a white backdrop, so they're more in-your face. It was my favorite piece in the room.

Aislinn: EXACTLY! It makes me crazy. You are a good woman.

i commented on this the other day when you blogged the kara walker piece in the show.

can the art stand alone without its artist's identity, be it african american, lesbian, etc.? no? then it's not great art.

my intense boredom with jacob lawrence aside, many of the pieces in that gallery can. creating a segregated "black art" ghetto is offensive.

and what museum in its right mind puts DeKooning's "Pink Woman" in storage? are you fucking insane, SAM curators?

max solomon:

If you want to get worked up over something not being out, de Kooning's fairly good woman painting is not the one: Gorky's amazing mother's apron painting is the one.

But on the subject of "Black Art." I assume you're taking offense not at the temporary exhibition called "Black Art" but the whole idea of having a gallery that hosts the work of artists of African descent? Because I just want to be sure you understand that this thing is a temporary exhibition.

Carry on.

Well, that first one is awful. The rest are interesting.

AIEE! Pointy negress titties! NSFW! NSFW!