Black Is, Black Ain't 

Hamza Walker

• Other Authors Krista Thompson (Contributor), Amy M. Mooney (Contributor), Huey Copeland (Contributor), Kenneth W. Warren (Contributor), Greg Foster-Rice (Contributor), Darby English (Contributor), Kymberly N. Pinder (Contributor)
• Title

  Black Is, Black Ain't 

• Date 2013
• ISBN 9780941548601
• Publisher Chicago: The Renaissance Society
• Description 196 p; 10.5 in; b/w and color ill.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, Dan Fox Collection
• Summary

  Taking its title from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, exhibition Black Is, Black Ain't (April 20 – June 8, 2008) explored a shift in the rhetoric of race from an earlier emphasis on inclusion to a present moment where racial identity is being simultaneously rejected and retained.Curated by the Renaissance Society's Associate Curator and Education Director Hamza Walker, the exhibition brought together works by twenty-seven black and non-black artists whose work collectively examines a moment where the cultural production of so-called "blackness" is concurrent with efforts to make race socially and politically irrelevant (Renaissance Society). Included artists: Terry Adkins, Edgar Arceneaux, Elizabeth Axtman,Jonathan Calm, Paul D'Amato, Deborah Grant, Todd Gray, Shannon Jackson, Thomas Johnson,nJason Lazarus, David Levinthal, Glenn Ligon, David McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Jerome Mosley, Virginia Nimarkoh, Demitrius Oliver, Sze Lin Pang, Carl Pope, William Pope.L, Robert A. Pruitt, Randy Regier, Daniel Roth, Joanna Rytel, Andres Serrano, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas

• Tags Blackness, Contemporary art, Exhibition catalog