{"id":32268,"date":"2013-07-13T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T12:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32268"},"modified":"2013-07-13T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T16:40:09","slug":"lola-flash-surpassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32268","title":{"rendered":"Lola Flash: [sur]passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffschoolheritagecenter.org\/jsaahcexhibitions.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lola Flash: [sur]passing<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffschoolheritagecenter.org\" target=\"_blank\">Jefferson School African American Heritage Center<\/a><br \/>\n420 Commerce Street<br \/>\nCharlottesville, Virginia<br \/>\nContemporary Gallery<br \/>\nExhibition Dates: 2013-06-07 through 2013-08-30<\/p>\n<p>For more than 20 years\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lolaflash.com\/biography.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lola Flash<\/a> has been committed to deconstructing racism, sexism and homophobia through challenging photographic imagery. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lolaflash.com\/surpassing\/surpassing.html\" target=\"_blank\">[sur]passing<\/a> is a work in progress that confronts the phenomenon known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=15098\" target=\"_blank\">pigmentocracy<\/a>. The term, coined by cultural critic <a href=\"http:\/\/arthistory.yale.edu\/faculty\/faculty\/faculty_mercer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kobena Mercer<\/a> in 1994, describes a hierarchy wherein a slave&#8217;s socio-economic position could be determined by their skin color. In [sur]passing, Flash analyzes the impact of this condition on contemporary society.<\/p>\n<p>Posed in front of the varied yet undefined skylines of London, New York, and South Africa, Flash&#8217;s models, both male and female, represent an array of skin-color. Their youthful energy suggests they have transcended the pecking order that has historically been the source of contention throughout the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_diaspora\" target=\"_blank\">African Diaspora<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Flash, these portraits represent a &#8220;new generation&#8221;\u2014one that is above and beyond &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>.&#8221; They represent a fresh pride and strength; where ambiguity and blurred borders create individuality that elevates consciousness, and advances a plethora of complex and positive imagery of [black] people all over the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffschoolheritagecenter.org\/jsaahcexhibitions.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. View the [sur]passing gallery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lolaflash.com\/surpassing\/surpassing.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lola Flash: [sur]passing Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 420 Commerce Street Charlottesville, Virginia Contemporary Gallery Exhibition Dates: 2013-06-07 through 2013-08-30 For more than 20 years\u00a0Lola Flash has been committed to deconstructing racism, sexism and homophobia through challenging photographic imagery. [sur]passing is a work in progress that confronts the phenomenon known as pigmentocracy. The term, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,20],"tags":[15159,15160,147],"class_list":["post-32268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jefferson-school-african-american-heritage-center","tag-lola-flash","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}