Hoodoo Assassin # 6 (the Chameleon)
Renee Stout

Details
Title
Hoodoo Assassin # 6 (the Chameleon)
Artist/Maker
Renee Stout
Date
2019
Medium
Oil on handmade paper
Dimensions
12 x 12 inches
Credit
Gift of Baxter Jones and Dr. Jiong Yan, in memory of Julia Block Jones, C. Baxter Jones, Jr., Margaret Davison Block, E. Bates Block, and Manping Zhou
Accession #
2020.191
This work is from an ongoing series titled Hoodoo Assassins, which refers to an army of real and imaginary women created by the artist to protect a symbolic space she calls “The Parallel Universe.” Here she has found refuge during the past four years of police violence and the resurgence of White supremacist terrorism. Her subjects channel the personas of subversive individuals who project a self-possession that exudes strength and resolve. Stout says, “while we may be in this mess, we don’t have to succumb to it and allow ourselves to be of it.”
Image Copyright
© Renee Stout
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