The History of White Women vs. Black Venus de Milo Print

At some point in 2016, amid the racial tension America was going through up until that point, I was looking at the work of my contemporaries and realized that the work of white artists still to this day represents a segregated world. I’m trying to be conscious of creating work that integrates people for future audiences. Unfortunately, the history between us is so layered that separating race from the meaning of the work becomes impossible. Here, you have, manifested, two ideals of beauty. The blonde Barbie is unaware of the throne of blood upon which she sits, and she is thrown into the audience of black Venus in a landscape that doesn’t uphold the values that built the standards upon which Barbie sits. I guess as a white person that empathizes with what black and brown people go through on a daily basis, I try to think of scenarios that could pull Americans out of their white-centric viewpoints. So, I see this piece as a sort of wish-fulfillment: a confrontation that shocks someone from their point of view. I live for moments like this.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:10 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:15.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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