“So, What Are You?” (White Noise Series) Chalk and charcoal on chalkboard 48 x 70 inches BCO 006-G
“So, What Are You?” (White Noise Series) Chalk and charcoal on chalkboard 48 x 70 inches BCO 006-G
“Do People Ever Think You’re White?” III (White Noise Series) Chalk and charcoal on chalkboard 48 x 70 inches BCO 005-G
“(Unrelated)” (White Noise Series) Chalk and charcoal on chalkboard 48 x 70 inches BCO 007-G
“Can I Touch Your Hair?” (White Noise series) Charcoal on chalkboard 36 x 48 inches
“Yeah, But I Love Your White Side And Your Black Side” (White Noise series) 22” x 30” Conte crayon on paper
“I’m Just So Politically Correct Today” (White Noise series) 2011 Chalk & pastel on chalkboard 31″ x 48″
“Well, I Mean Obama Is President Now, So…” (White Noise series) Variable Chalk on chalkboards
“I Just Don’t Want To Go There” (White Noise series) 31” x 48” Chalk and charcoal on chalkboard
“Maybe You Should Make It Into A Slaveship” 2010 Chalk on blackboard
“Don’t You Think That’s A Little Elitist?” 2010 Chalk on blackboard Variable
I am interested in the unnerving possibility of multiple meanings, dual perceptions, and limitlessness in the seemingly binary. Drawing objects repeatedly allows me to fully understand the object in space, while defining and redefining my own racial landscape.
Racial identity, for me, has neither been instantly formed nor conjured in isolation. Rather, identity entangles memory: actual and revisited, cultural and historical, individual and collective. Through the dissolution of dichotomies and the combination of objects, this work recalls for me moments in the formation of my racial identity as Black and Biracial. And each re-worked mark is another attempt to navigate the binary paradigm of race in the U.S. South by grasping invisible limitations and grounding myself within the collective African American visual narrative.
Whether black paper drawings, chalkboard erasures or layered vellum paintings, my work continues to evoke a longing for what Rebecca Walker refers to as “a memory that can remind me at all times of who I definitely am…the black outline around my body that everyone else seems to have.”
For availability and inquiries, please call 404 408 4248 or e-mail info@kailinart.com
BETHANY COLLINS
“So, What Are You?” (White Noise Series) Chalk and charcoal on chalkboard 48 x 70 inches BCO 006-G
I am interested in the unnerving possibility of multiple meanings, dual perceptions, and limitlessness in the seemingly binary. Drawing objects repeatedly allows me to fully understand the object in space, while defining and redefining my own racial landscape.
Racial identity, for me, has neither been instantly formed nor conjured in isolation. Rather, identity entangles memory: actual and revisited, cultural and historical, individual and collective. Through the dissolution of dichotomies and the combination of objects, this work recalls for me moments in the formation of my racial identity as Black and Biracial. And each re-worked mark is another attempt to navigate the binary paradigm of race in the U.S. South by grasping invisible limitations and grounding myself within the collective African American visual narrative.
Whether black paper drawings, chalkboard erasures or layered vellum paintings, my work continues to evoke a longing for what Rebecca Walker refers to as “a memory that can remind me at all times of who I definitely am…the black outline around my body that everyone else seems to have.”
For availability and inquiries, please call 404 408 4248 or e-mail info@kailinart.com