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New installation by Nina Chanel Abney on view at ICA Miami |
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Nina Chanel Abney "Mama Gotta Have A Life Too" 2022. Diptych collage on panel. Paper size: 84 1/4 x 60 inches, each. Framed size: 85 3/4 x 61 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches, each. Credit: © Nina Chanel Abney. Photo courtesy of the artist and Pace Prints.
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MIAMI, FLA.- Big Butch Energy features a new installation by Nina Chanel Abney, whose works in painting and collage use dynamic color and form to draw viewers into complex narratives. Through stylized, cubistic, and highly charged painterly symbols, Abney references radical traditions of graphic design and street art to communicate urgent political and cultural realities with immediacy to the largest possible audience. In these latest works, Abney explores how gender perception and performance is inspired by the legacies of social ritual and visual culture. Inspired by her experience as a masculine-of-center woman, with this body of work Abney asks how viewers gender a figure in a work of art.
Abney mines cinematic and media representations of Greek student life in this series to trouble norms of racist systems and sexual desire in the United States. The complex compositions reference scenes from popular slapstick comedy films like National Lampoons Animal House (1978) and Porkys (1981), while citing traditions of baroque portraiture and fraternity composites. Abney pays special homage to the figure of the Black masculine woman, suggesting, alongside other recent exhibitions, her affinity for Black women and men who abstain from hetero- and cis-normative performances of gender.
Instead of just rewriting Greek life narratives with queer Black characters, I wanted to highlight the implicit flamboyance and homoeroticism of frat house and sorority house environments, Abney says. Through these works, the artist explores the tension between respectability and vulgarity, and how this tension often rests precipitously on a ravenous yearning for social belonging.
Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982, Chicago) has been honored with solo exhibitions at the Gordon Parks Foundation, Pleasantville, New York (2022; traveled to Henry Art Gallery, Seattle); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (201921); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); and the Contemporary Dayton, Ohio (2021). Additionally, her solo exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2017), toured to the Chicago Cultural Center; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York. Recently, Abney has created monumental public murals on the facade of David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York and for the new Miami Worldcenter inspired by Miamis Overtown neighborhood. Abneys work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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