Nayland Blake: 40 Years of Incompletes
October 11, 2017
7:00 PM, Danforth Lecture Hall
Nayland Blake reconfigures everyday objects and occurrences into charged and unsettling encounters. His art has variously described as disturbing, provocative, elusive, tormented, sinister, hysterical, brutal, and tender. Interracial desire, same-sex love, and racial and sexual bigotry are recurrent themes in Blake's work which reflect his preoccupation with his own racial and sexual identities.Blake’s work has been featured in the 1991 Whitney Biennial and the 1993 Venice Biennale, solo exhibition Free!Love!Tool!Box! Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2012, and The Garage at 500 Capp St 2017. He is currently represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York and Anglim Gilbert in San Francisco and in 2012 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Blake has also curated exhibitions for various spaces over the last thirty years, including In a Different Light at the Berkeley Art Museum in 1994 and Something/Anything at Matthew Marks Gallery in 2002. He is currently curating an exhibition for the ICA in Philadelphia for Spring of 2018. Blake chairs the International Photography Center-Bard MFA program in New York. Corenah Wright Speaker Series
Image: Crossing Object (Inside Gnomen) 2017
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