Tag: Robin Coste Lewis

• Poems and Portraits: Revealing and Reclaiming Blackness in Western Art

  

  The cover of Robin Coste Lewis’ book, Voyage of the Sable Venus features a Harlem Renaissance era photo of a slim black woman standing on a sidewalk deep in thought. With one hand resting on her hip and the other cradling her chin, the woman is pondering what lies behind the glass window in front…

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  September 19, 2017

  Art, art books, Art in Los Angeles, Art/Culture, black history, Contemporary Art, poetry, Uncategorized, writing

  Amy Sherald, CAAM, Ebony Patterson, Genevieve Gaignard, kehinde wiley, Lorna Simpson, poetry, portraits, Robin Coste Lewis, Titus Kaphar, Voyage of Sable Venus

• Octavia Butler’s Radio Imagination

  

  One of the best books I read in 2016 was Kindred by Octavia Butler and one of the most powerful essays I read in 2016 was “Broken Defaced and Unseen: the Hidden Black Female Figures of Western Art”, by Robin Coste Lewis.  One work explored time travel, slavery and the black female body while the other takes the…

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  January 6, 2017

  Art, Art in Los Angeles, black history, Los Angeles, Uncategorized, writing

  Cauleen Smith, Clockshop, Kindred, Octavia Butler, Robin Coste Lewis, Science Fiction, the Armory Center for the Arts, writing