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Rats

Title
Rats / Janiva Ellis ; curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Stephanie Seidel.
Author
Ellis, Janiva, 1987-
Publication
  • Miami : Institute of Contemporary Art ; New York : DelMonico Books, 2022.
  • New York, NY : Available through Artbook/D.A.P.
  • ©2022

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Additional Authors
  • Gartenfeld, Alex
  • Seidel, Stephanie
  • Brown, Jessica Bell
  • Young, Olivia K.
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, host institution.
Description
181 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm
Summary
"This volume introduces the work of American painter Janiva Ellis, who participated in the New Museum Triennial 2018 and the Whitney Biennial 2019. Featuring a suite of new paintings created over the past year, Rats is published on the occasion of the first solo museum exhibition for Ellis, whose paintings use formal themes of speed and transformation to explore fractured states of personal and cultural perception. Her works produce abundant imagery, invented as well as appropriated. She draws from a broad array of material, including art history and pop culture, to comment on the insidious nature of white supremacist mythology and its denial of itself as a brutal social and structural force. The humor in her work aims to create space for release as well as renewal. Ellis uses figuration to paint Blackness expansively, communicating the complexity of navigating such a lopsided and violent landscape. Exhibition: Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami, USA (25.02-12.09.2021)."--
Alternative Title
Janiva Ellis, rats
Subject
  • Ellis, Janiva, 1987- > Exhibitions
  • 2000-2099
  • Painting, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • African American painting > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Women painters > United States > Exhibitions
  • African American painting
  • Painting, American
  • Women painters
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, February 25-September 12, 2021.
  • Includes an essay by Jessica Bell Brown and an interview with the artist by Olivia K. Young.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Works (2017-2018) -- "Red-hot cannonballs and bloody knives: Janiva Ellis's white scourge" / Jessica Bell Brown -- Works (2019-2020) -- "Of entrapment and other white supremacist things": an interview / Olivia K. Young, Ph.D., Janiva Ellis -- Rats (2021) -- List of works.
Call Number
JQF 22-1358
ISBN
  • 9781636810263
  • 1636810268
LCCN
2021950381
OCLC
1256541673
Author
Ellis, Janiva, 1987- artist, interviewee.
Title
Rats / Janiva Ellis ; curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Stephanie Seidel.
Publisher
Miami : Institute of Contemporary Art ; New York : DelMonico Books, 2022.
Distributor
New York, NY : Available through Artbook/D.A.P.
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note
EXHIBITION CATALOG. CO-PUB. W/ INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MIAMI. PAINTINGS IN COLOR. W/ ESSAYS.
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Added Author
Gartenfeld, Alex, curator, editor.
Seidel, Stephanie, curator, editor.
Brown, Jessica Bell, writer of supplementary textual content.
Young, Olivia K., interviewer.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 22-1358
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