Art of the New Civil Rights Era

Chase Hall

With his paintings, sculptures, and photographs, Chase Hall has set himself on a journey to mine the gap between the intimacies of Black life and the traces of psychopathology that gives the appearance of White supremacy an uneasy palatability.

Source:
Spring 2020
Credit:
Text / Jessica Bell Brown

Tariku Shiferaw

Unabashedly confronting issues related to racial identity, Tariku Shiferaw employs an obstinately formalist language of geometric abstraction in his practice to unpack the precariousness of contemporary Black life and celebrate the cultural production of Black people.

Source:
Spring 2020
Credit:
Text / Nzinga Simmons