Research Catalog

Title

Awol Erizku : mystic parallax / foreword by Ishmael Reed ; essays by Ashey James and Doreen St. Félix ; conversations with Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent ; editor: Michael Famighetti.

Author

Erizku, Awol, 1988-

Publication

New York : Aperture ; [Bentonville, Arkansas] : The Momentary, 2023.

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Additional Authors

• Reed, Ishmael, 1938-
• Famighetti, Michael
• James, Ashley (Ashley Nicole)
• St. Félix, Doreen, 1992-
• Fischer, Urs, 1955-
• Sargent, Antwaun
• Aperture Gallery, host institution.
• Momentary (Art museum : Arkansas), host institution.

Description

289 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 31 cm

Summary

"Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans Erizku's career, blending his studio practice with his work as an in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons, such as Solange, Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the New York Times, 'It's important for me to create confident, powerful, downright regal images of Black people.' Featuring essays by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James, and writer Doreen St. Félix, and interviews with the artist by Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and arresting testament to the artist's tremendous power and originality."--

Alternative Title

Mystic parallax

Subject

• Erizku, Awol, 1988- > Exhibitions
• Erizku, Awol, 1988- > Interviews
• African American art > Exhibitions
• African American art > Themes, motives
• Black people in art > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Women, Black, in art > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art) > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• African American art
• Themes, motives
• Black people in art
• Women, Black, in art
• Installations (Art)
• Photography, Artistic
• United States

Genre/Form

• Catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Interviews.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• "In conjunction with the publication of this artist book, The Momentary and Aperture will copresent an exhibition of related work by Awol Erizku in Bentonville, Arkansas"--Colophon.

Contents

Foreword / Ishmael Reed -- Awol Erizku : mystic parallax / Ashley James -- Awol Erizku's Afro-Esotericism / Doreen St. Félix -- Cosmic affinity / conversation with Urs Fischer -- When the smoke clears / conservation with Antwaun Sargent.

Call Number

Sc G 23-58

ISBN

• 9781597115469
• 1597115460
• 9798218142414

LCCN

2022920178

OCLC

1345217861

Author

Erizku, Awol, 1988- artist, interviewee.

Title

Awol Erizku : mystic parallax / foreword by Ishmael Reed ; essays by Ashey James and Doreen St. Félix ; conversations with Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent ; editor: Michael Famighetti.

Publisher

New York : Aperture ; [Bentonville, Arkansas] : The Momentary, 2023.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Erizku, Awol, 1988- interviewee.

Reed, Ishmael, 1938- writer of foreword.

Famighetti, Michael, editor.

James, Ashley (Ashley Nicole), contributor.

St. Félix, Doreen, 1992- contributor.

Fischer, Urs, 1955- interviewer.

Sargent, Antwaun, interviewer.

Aperture Gallery, host institution.

Momentary (Art museum : Arkansas), host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc G 23-58