The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion – Curated by Antwaun Sargent
Posted by Fabio 11 October 2019
The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion presents fifteen artists, whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images fuse the genres of art and fashion photography in ways that break down long-established boundaries. Their work has been widely consumed in traditional lifestyle magazines, ad campaigns, and museums, as well as on their individual social-media channels, reinfusing the contemporary visual vocabulary around beauty and the body with new vitality and substance.
This exhibition includes selected works from groundbreaking contemporary photographers. The framed work sits alongside vitrines of publications, past and present, that contextualize these images and chart the history of inclusion, and exclusion, in the creation of the commercial black image, while simultaneously proposing a brilliantly reenvisioned future.
The New Black Vanguard
Photography Between Art and Fashion
Aperture Gallery, New York
24 October – 18 January 2020
Features
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Sainte Maria is an illustrator based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her illustrations strip things down from exuberance and reflect fashion in all its beauty. -
When the Dust Settles is an exploration of the psychological landscape of our contemporary society.. -
Infinity represents a new form of digital art, presenting viewers with something fresh to discover on each viewing. -
Christina Nicodema's paintings explore the schisms of the food chain that all life participates in. They challenge the impossibility of reconciling the opposing notions of violence and empathy..