RICHARD STUART PERKINS
If Ancestors Anchor
April 1 – May 30, 2020
Online exhibition here and on ARTSY
THE WORK
New York-based artist Richard Stuart Perkins photographs himself in scenes of reductive tropes of black culture, using racially charged props and tableaux. Perkins images reason with racism, appropriation and assimilation, inviting viewers to examine their own assumptions.
In our second episode of TOGETHER, APART (our twice-weekly IGTV program), Perkins offers a detailed discussion of the cultural-historical references and concepts behind the works. The poems he references are included in the exhibition catalog, available for download below.
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THE ARTIST
Born in Oklahoma and raised in Germany, New York-based artist Richard Stuart Perkins creates photographs that question public and private personas. Perkins’ creative process uses interviews, fragmentation, and histories of portraiture, cinema and art, to ask questions about what it means to be an individual in societies that seek to define our lives externally.