Research Catalog

Title

Darrel Ellis / [contributions by] Derek Conrad Murray, Tiana Reid, Sadie Barnette, Alanna Fields, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ariel Goldberg, Steven G. Fullwood.

Publication

• New York : Visual Aids, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Murray, Derek Conrad
• Fullwood, Steven G.
• Reid, Tiana
• Hirsh, David
• Barnette, Sadie, 1984-
• Fields, Alanna
• Henry-Smith, Sean D., 1992-
• Sepuya, Paul Mpagi, 1982-
• Goldberg, Ariel

Description

195 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

Known for his experimental approach to painting and photography, New York-based mixed-media artist Darrel Ellis (1958-92) explored the psychic terrain between surface, memory and lyric self-representation. Working in part from his late father's photographs, Ellis projected, deconstructed and reimaged his family history, creating uncanny portraits marked by voids and warps. His commitment to the self-portrait was no less inspired, particularly after his experiences of being photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar. Ellis was on the cusp of major recognition when his life was cut short by AIDS in 1992, at the age of 33. This monograph provides the most comprehensive account of the artist to date, including 80 plates that chart his development from figurative painting to photographic experimentation and his later preoccupation with self-portraiture. Essays and an illustrated chronology featuring previously unseen excerpts from the artist's journals provide new insights into Ellis' life and work

Subject

• Ellis, Darrel > Criticism and interpretation
• Ellis, Darrel > Interviews
• Ellis, Darrel
• 1900-1999
• African American artists > 20th century
• Mixed media (Art) > 20th century
• Arts > Experimental methods
• African American families in art
• Photography, Artistic > 20th century
• African Americans in art
• Black people in art
• African American artists
• Mixed media (Art)
• Photography, Artistic

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190)

Contents

Foreword -- Darrel Ellis and the Poetics of Opacity / Derek Conrad Murray -- The Faces & Forms of Darrel Ellis / Tiana Reid -- A New Sensibility / David Hirsh -- Works -- To Be Remembered-To Have Been Real / Sadie Barnette, Alanna Fields, S*an D. Henry-Smith, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya with Ariel Goldberg -- Process -- The Case of the Artist's Archive / Steven G. Fullwood -- Chronology -- Exhibition History -- Bibliography -- Contributor Biographies

Call Number

Sc+ F 22-307

ISBN

• 9781732641556
• 1732641552

OCLC

1277140086

Title

Darrel Ellis / [contributions by] Derek Conrad Murray, Tiana Reid, Sadie Barnette, Alanna Fields, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ariel Goldberg, Steven G. Fullwood.

Publisher

New York : Visual Aids, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190)

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Murray, Derek Conrad, writer of supplemental textual content.

Fullwood, Steven G., writer of supplemental textual content.

Reid, Tiana, writer of supplemental textual content.

Hirsh, David, interviewer.

Barnette, Sadie, 1984- writer of supplemental textual content.

Fields, Alanna, writer of supplemental textual content.

Henry-Smith, Sean D., 1992- writer of supplemental textual content.

Sepuya, Paul Mpagi, 1982- writer of supplemental textual content.

Goldberg, Ariel, writer of supplemental textual content.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 22-307