Tschabalala Self: Out of Body
When:
Monday, Jan 20, 2020 10:00a -
Sunday, Jul 05, 2020 5:00p
Where:
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
25 Harbor Shore Dr
Boston, MA 02210
Admission:
$10-15
Categories:
Art
Event website:
https://www.icaboston.org/node/9976
Tschabalala Self (b. 1990, Harlem, New York) creates large-scale figurative paintings that integrate hand-printed and found textiles, drawing, printmaking, sewing, and collage techniques to tell stories of urban life, the body, and humanity. The artist’s first Boston presentation—and her largest exhibition to date—will include a selection of paintings and sculptures that represent personal avatars, couplings, and everyday social exchanges inspired by urban life. Together, they articulate new expressions of embodiment and humanity through the exaggerated forms and exuberant textures of the human figure, pointing to its limitless capacity to represent imagined states, memories, aspirations, and emotions. Yet Self’s characters possess an ordinary grace grounded in reality: they are reflections of the artist or people she can imagine meeting in Harlem, her hometown.