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Submitted by Bduffy81 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Fate Vs. Free Will
The current exhibition of local African-American artist shows feelings of African-American thought, and feelings on African-American life. The media used for the featured pieces range from church fans representing African-American tradition, to computer-generated collages weaved together, giving an allusion to the African art of basket weaving. While all the artists and all the art-works were very interesting, two that really caught my eye were Childhood Toys, by Juan Scivally, and 40 Acres and a Mule by Chandra Cox.
Juan Scivally's Childhood Toys is a piece that immediately gives the inspiration of the title of the piece. As a former camp counselor for five year olds I easily recognized the puzzle-like toy that is found on every playground across the country. While the structure itself reflects the feeling of childhood, the scenes displayed are the farthest from childhood innocence. With fragments of the September Eleventh Bombings in New York, and sections of a one hundred dollar bill, Scivally captures both the innocence we all once knew, and the adulthood that is constantly present, yet not always as put-together as we may wish. Overall I thought the piece was very reflective of everyday life and universal feelings.
The second piece that I found to be very intriguing was Chandra Cox's 40 Acres and a Mule. On first glance it was hard to see anything short of many lines and various shades of blue. As the viewer takes a longer look and steps several feet away from the piece the title and the actual work begins to come together. In the bottom left-hand corner one can see a faint silhouette of a mule, and the many lines turn into many small squares resembling crops that one might see when looking down in an airplane. The vagueness of the figures in the piece is similar to the vagueness of the promise to newly freed slaves of land and a mule. I was very appreciative of Cox's use of African-American history in her work. The pieces and the...
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