Jan

27

Ken Gonzales-Day’s Bone-Grass Boy: “The Secret Banks of the Conejos River”

Given that this revisited version of Bone-Grass Boy is traversing the U.S. right now, that desire for it to speak to future generations feels particularly prescient in asserting its ongoing relevance and broadcasting its resonating voice.

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Oct

16

Art and the #FergusonSyllabus

Over the course, we studied artists like Damon Davis and his #allhandsondeck project, Kerry James Marshall’s photographic collages of lynchings, Ken Gonzales-Day’s work with both protest photographs and erased lynchings, and Natalie Bookchin’s video collages.

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Apr

17

Ken Gonzales-Day and the Art of the Die-in

Die-in, Los Angeles, CA (above) features Ken Gonzales-Day’s photographs of somber bodies lying on a solid, dark background; the artist has blacked out the street to emphasize the bodies, the physicality, and the reminder that they stand-in for those who have been killed unjustly.

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