Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Genevieve Gaignard
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“I’m trying to show that blackness comes in many different shades,” [Genevieve] Gaignard explained to artnet News during a tour of her current exhibition, “Genevieve Gaignard: Counterfeit Currency,” her first in New York, at the FLAG Art Foundation. Sarah Cascone, “‘There’s Enough Damsels in Distress’: Artist Genevieve Gaignard Wants to Undermine Your Assumptions About Beauty…
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In her first New York show, the artist creates unexpected characters that defy stereotypes.
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Born in Massachusetts to a black father and a white mother, [Genevieve] Gaignard is white passing, despite identifying as black, and her visually ambiguous identity is something that’s troubled her since childhood. “When I say I’m passing, I mean we navigate through the world how others see us, and I’m usually seen as white,” Gaignard…
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Genevieve Gaignard uses American stereotypes and comfortable settings to confront uncomfortable issues surrounding race and identity.
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An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America Hyperallergic 2017-01-09 Alicia Eler Genevieve Gaignard makes the personal political while also creating new American mythologies. LOS ANGELES — In the lead-up to a Trump presidency, the worst possible outcome for an America that has come so far in the past 100 years in terms…
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Artist Explodes Racial Stereotypes In Shape-Shifting Photographs The Huffington Post 2016-10-20 Priscilla Frank, Arts & Culture Writer Shulamit Nazarian “My experience as a person of color is different than others’. I have something to say.” Artist Genevieve Gaignard grew up in the town of Orange, Massachusetts. Her mother was white, her father black ― one…
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Genevieve Gaignard tackles race, class and identity at the California African American Museum The Los Angeles Times 2016-11-17 Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter Genevieve Gaignard’s identity-bending “Extra Value (After Venus)” (2016). (Genevieve Gaignard / Shulamit Nazarian) Growing up in the working-class mill town of Orange, Mass., Genevieve Gaignard wrestled with her identity. She was the fair-skinned…
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An Artist Stands Before Her Fun House Mirror The New York Times 2016-01-06 Amanda Fortini Genevieve Gaignard, “A Golden State of Mind” installation, 2015. Credit: Eric Minh Swenson, via The Cabin LA and Diane Rosenstein LOS ANGELES — On a recent Friday afternoon, Genevieve Gaignard, a photographer, collagist and installation artist, was sitting on her…