Research Catalog

Title

Skilled labor : Black realism in Detroit / curated by Laura Mott, Mario Moore, & Andrew Ruys de Perez.

Publication

Bloomfield Hills, MI : Cranbrook Art Museum, 2023.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blauvelt, Andrew, 1964-
• Dyki, Judy
• Goffnett, Kat
• Mott, Laura
• Ruys de Perez, Andrew
• Baker, Chris
• Moore, Mario
• Cranbrook Art Museum, host institution.

Description

118 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit focuses on a local community of artists that have developed expert skills in drawing and painting, and, through deft hands, explore the representation of the Black body in both personal and cultural contexts. Rejecting the monolithic nature under which the Black body is frequently conceived and popularly imagined, Skilled Labor illustrates the range, depth, nuance, and variety of Black life through each artist's unique approach to figuration. The exhibition features a spectrum of lived experiences--joy, intimacy, reverie, danger, tension--through this artistic lens. Collectively, these artists are undertaking the laborious task of art historical and cultural rethinking through acts of representation." -- Cranbrook Art Museum exhibition page.

Subject

• Cranbrook Art Museum
• 2000-2099
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Realism in art > Exhibitions
• African Americans in art > 21st century > Exhibitions
• African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

Director's foreword -- Introduction & acknowledgments -- Conversation no. 1 / Cailyn Dawson, Conrad Egyir, Mario Moore, Patrick Quaram, Rashaun Rucker, and Tylonn Sawyer -- Mario Moore -- Cailyn Dawson -- Rashaun Rucker -- Conrad Egyir -- Patrick Quarm -- Tylonn Sawyer -- Conversation no. 2 / Taurus Burns, Gregory Johnson, Dr. Hubert Massey, Mario Moore, Sabrina Nelson, and Joshua Rainer -- Sabrina Nelson -- Taurus Burns -- Dr. Hubert Massey -- Gregory Johnson -- Joshua Rainer -- Conversation no. 3 / Christopher Batten, Cydney Camp -- Jonathan Harris, Mario Moore, and Jamea Richmond-Edwards -- Jonathan Harris -- Jamea Richmond-Edwards -- Christopher Batten -- Cydney Camp -- Conversation no. 4 / Ijania Cortez, Bakpak Durden, Sydney James, Richard Lewis, Mario Moore, and Senghor Reid -- Sydney James -- Bakpak Durden -- Ijania Cortez -- Senghor Reid -- Richard Lewis -- Never in exile: Detroit's LeRoy Foster -- Exhibition checklist -- Staff and leadership.

Call Number

Sc F 24-130

ISBN

• 9781733382465
• 1733382461

OCLC

1407232551

Title

Skilled labor : Black realism in Detroit / curated by Laura Mott, Mario Moore, & Andrew Ruys de Perez.

Imprint

Bloomfield Hills, MI : Cranbrook Art Museum, 2023.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Blauvelt, Andrew, 1964- editor.

Dyki, Judy, editor.

Goffnett, Kat, editor.

Mott, Laura, editor, curator.

Ruys de Perez, Andrew, editor, curator.

Baker, Chris, designer.

Moore, Mario, curator, artist.

Cranbrook Art Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc F 24-130