Black figuration and portraiture as realized in the works of Amy Sherald, Jordan Casteel and other contemporary Artists There is never a Time in the future in which we will work out our salvation.
Price, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Lorna Simpson, Amy Sherald, Henry Taylor, Barbara Walker..
Artists include: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Hurvin Anderson, Michael Armitage, Jordan Casteel, Noah Davis, Godfried Donkor, Kimathi Donkor, Denzil Forrester, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Chris Ofili, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Jennifer Packer, Thomas J.
The catalog is also supplemented by three original essays from Dorothy Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art
Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other ; and Esi Edugyan, two-Time Giller Prize winner for her novels Half-Blood Blues and Washington Black .
Each artist receives a detailed biographical profile alongside reproductions of their included works.
Through a three-part structure, this book examines Black figuration as a means to address the absence and distortion of Black presence within Western art history.
Acknowledging the paradox of race as both a socially constructed fiction and a lived reality, as Eshun writes, The Time is Always Now celebrates these Black figurative artworks against a background of heightened cultural visibility.
The book brings together 22 contemporary African diasporic Artists working primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States, whose practices--whether through painting, drawing or sculpture--foreground the Black figure.
Published in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, The Time is Always Now is edited by curator Ekow Eshun, former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
The challenge is in the moment, the Time is Always now, wrote James Baldwin.
Black figuration and portraiture as realized in the works of Amy Sherald, Jordan Casteel and other contemporary Artists There is never a Time in the future in which we will work out our salvation
