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Author:

Sonya Clark (Hirmer Publishers)

Title:

Sonya Clark : we are each other / edited by Elissa Auther, Laura Mott, Monica Obniski.

Publisher:

Hirmer Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm

Subject:

Clark, Sonya--Exhibitions.
Clark, Sonya.
Race in art--Exhibitions.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Cranbrook Art Museum, host institution.
High Museum of Art, host institution.
Museum of Arts and Design (New York, N.Y.), host institution.
Auther, Elissa, editor.
Mott, Laura, editor.
Obniski, Monica, editor.
Clark, Sonya.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at Cranbrook Art Museum, MI, June 17-September 24, 2023; High Museum of Art, GA, October 27, 2023-February 18, 2024; and Museum of Arts and Design, NY, March 23-September 22, 2024. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Paul Robeson / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Curators' introduction and acknowledgments / Elissa Auther, Laura Mott, and Monica Obniski -- The monumental work of Sonya Clark: community, the everyday, and reshaping history / Renée Ater -- Sonya Clark: small things considered: forgotten, remembered, reclaimed, and exalted! or: "How did I not know that?" / Leslie King-Hammond -- Dreads, braids, finger curls, and 'fros: the hirsute pursuits of Sonya Clark / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Connections: a conversation between Sonya Clark and Nick Cave -- Bright and boundaryless: a conversation between Sonya Clark and Joyce J. Scott.

Summary:

This is the first publication to document and contextualise Clark's large-scale, collaborative art works. These projects demonstrate Clark's career-long commitment to addressing the urgent issue of racial inequality in U.S. society and her philosophy of creatively engaging the viewer in reflection on the nation's history of slavery and our roles in dismantling systemic racism today. As an extension of her abiding commitment to issues of history, race, and reconciliation in her work, Clark is also distinctive as an artist for her use of fiber, textiles and other everyday materials, which she aligns with the intertwined histories of art and craft. For marginalised people (African Americans and women, in particular) handwork has been essential to survival and consequently has functioned as an important means of creating a group identity. Hence, for Clark, craft is essential to the question of equality. Exhibition: Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, USA (17.06. - 24.09.2023) / High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (27.10.2023 - 18.02.2024) / Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA (23.03. - 22.09.2024).

ISBN:

3777440965
9783777440965

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1373397687

LCCN:

2022921494

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)