This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Yashua Klos: Our Labour' organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, February 12-June 12, 2022. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Director's Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Transformational Rehabilitation and Yashua Klos: Our Labour -- Our Labour -- Conversation / LeRonn P. Brooks and Yashua Klos -- Masks -- Tyla -- Auntie Grandma -- Vein Vine -- Visible and Invisible Labor / Lauren Haynes -- When the Parts Untangle -- Yonna and Towana -- The Bridge Between Heaven and Earth -- Woodblocks -- Artists' Acknowledgments -- Contributors.
Summary:
This book features a recent body of work by New York-based artist Yashua Klos (born 1977) and builds upon the artist's explorations into the intersections between the human form, the natural world and the built environment. Foregrounding a series of print-based and sculptural works, Yashua Klos: Our Labour considers how familial, geographic and narrative histories inform notions of identity. Klos employs a process of collaging woodblock prints to engage ideas about Blackness and maleness as identities that are both fragmented and constructed. In this volume, Klos introduces works conceived around an examination of creative and industrial labor through both deeply personal and historic lenses.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.