Details

Title

Hoodoo Assassin # 6 (the Chameleon)

Artist/Maker

Renee Stout

Date

2019

Medium

Oil on handmade paper

Dimensions

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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

On View

On View - Anne Cox Chambers Wing, Skyway, Gallery 422

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