{"id":56706,"date":"2018-08-04T01:17:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T01:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56706"},"modified":"2018-08-04T01:20:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T01:20:39","slug":"theres-enough-damsels-in-distress-artist-genevieve-gaignard-wants-to-undermine-your-assumptions-about-beauty-and-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56706","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s Enough Damsels in Distress\u2019: Artist Genevieve Gaignard Wants to Undermine Your Assumptions About Beauty and Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018There\u2019s Enough Damsels in Distress\u2019: Artist Genevieve Gaignard Wants to Undermine Your Assumptions About Beauty and Blackness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

artnet News<\/a>
\n2018-08-03<\/p>\n

Sarah Cascone<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Genevieve<\/a>
\nGenevieve Gaignard<\/a>, You\u2019ve Wronged, Now Make it Right<\/em> (2018). Photo courtesy of Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles\/the FLAG Art Foundation, New York; \u00a9<\/sup>Genevieve Gaignard.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In her first New York<\/a> show, the artist creates unexpected characters that defy stereotypes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Genevieve Gaignard\u2019s<\/a> work is deceptive\u2014and that\u2019s no accident. Her pleasingly arranged collages, heavily knick-knacked installations of cozy-looking domestic interiors, and well-lit, cheerfully colorful portrait photography draw the viewer in, belying her willingness to confront the sensitive issues of race, stereotypes, beauty standards, consumption, and identity.<\/p>\n

Each photograph features Gaignard herself, transformed by wigs and costumes into a variety of characters. The artist is a fair-skinned mixed-race woman of color who can take on vastly disparate identities, casting herself one moment as a prim blonde housewife and the next as a young woman with hoop earrings and a shirt that reads \u201cHoodrat Thangs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to show that blackness comes in many different shades,\u201d Gaignard explained to artnet News<\/em> during a tour of her current exhibition, \u201cGenevieve Gaignard: Counterfeit Currency<\/a>,\u201d her first in New York<\/a>, at the FLAG Art Foundation<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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