This book published on the occasion of the exhibition "Howardena Pindell: A new language," Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, November 13, 2021-May 2, 2022; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, July 2, 2022-October 30, 2022; Spike Island, Bristol, February 4, 2023-May 7, 2023.
Contents:
On her fingers and toes / Anna Lovatt -- Surface tension / Amy Tobin -- Free, white and 21 / Howardena Pindell -- Facing it : Howardena Pindell and activism that is personal / Adeze Wilford -- Rope/fire/water / Howardena Pindell -- Art world racism / Howardena Pindell.
Summary:
"Artist, activist, writer, and teacher Howardena Pindell has been a force in contemporary art since the late 1960s. This book is a celebration and critical examination of her painting and writing and marks her first solo exhibition in the UK. It takes its title--and its cue--from her: 'I am an artist. I am not part of a so-called "minority", "new" or "emerging" or "a new audience". These are all terms used to demean, limit, and make people of color appear to be powerless. We must evolve a new language which empowers us and does not cause us to participate in our own disenfranchisement.' With illustrations of a selection of paintings from the 1970s to now; new writing from Anna Lovatt of the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Amy Tobin of the University of Cambridge, and Adeze Wilford from The Shed in New York; and a selection of Pindell's own writing, this book presents Pindell's inspiring and unflinchingly active imagination, and explores her articulation of a 'new language' as exemplary in articulating empowerment"-- Page [4] of cover.
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