{"id":61602,"date":"2021-09-23T01:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T01:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61602"},"modified":"2021-10-11T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T17:58:12","slug":"genevieve-gaignards-timely-work-documents-racial-injustice-and-calls-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61602","title":{"rendered":"Genevieve Gaignard\u2019s Timely Work Documents Racial Injustice and Calls for Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genevieve Gaignard\u2019s Timely Work Documents Racial Injustice and Calls for Change<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Artsy<\/a>
\n2020-10-13<\/p>\n

Dominique Clayton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nGenevieve Gaignard<\/a>, \u200bTrailblazer (A Dream Deferred)<\/em>\u200b, 2017. \u00a9<\/sup>Genevieve Gaignard. Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In a period when many are glued to their devices, waiting for the latest updates on the upcoming election or ongoing pandemic<\/a>, it\u2019s hard for creatives to focus on new projects and work. Yet for artists like Genevieve Gaignard<\/a>, who retreated to an artist residency shortly after the onset of the pandemic, this time has served as the catalyst for continuing to create groundbreaking work that speaks to our past, present, and future.<\/p>\n

Gaignard recently returned to Los Angeles<\/a>, where she is based, after spending roughly five months at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, Massachusetts<\/a>. There, she completed the inaugural Artist\u2019s Laboratory residency program and opened a new exhibition<\/a> at MCLA Gallery 51<\/a>, titled \u201cA Long Way From Home.\u201d Both initiatives are led by the director of the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center<\/a> Erica Wall, a Black gallerist and curator who previously ran her own space in Santa Ana, California<\/a>. \u201cGenevieve is such a deep and amazingly prolific artist, whose work reflects her laser focus and commitment to documenting and illuminating racial injustice in the U.S. over time, in real time,\u201d Wall said. \u201cSocial media can hardly keep up with her!\u201d<\/p>\n

While the effects of COVID-19<\/a> caused all of the programming around the residency and the exhibition to move online, Gaignard and Wall made virtual magic happen by pivoting to a series of workshops, sessions, and a lovely exhibition opening via Zoom. There, alongside other artists and supporters, I witnessed the big reveal of Gaignard\u2019s latest work, which brought on a combination of laughter and tears…<\/p>\n

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Yet for artists like Genevieve Gaignard, who retreated to an artist residency shortly after the onset of the pandemic, this time has served as the catalyst for continuing to create groundbreaking work that speaks to our past, present, and future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,459,8,23674,20],"tags":[31040,455,31958,31959,22811,787],"class_list":["post-61602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-history","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-artsy","tag-california","tag-dominique-clayton","tag-erica-wall","tag-genevieve-gaignard","tag-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61602","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=61602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61807,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61602\/revisions\/61807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}