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Black Is, Black Ain't

April 20 – June 08, 2008

 
Terry Adkins - Darkwater Record
Terry Adkins
Darkwater Record, 2003
Tape recorders, porcelain bust, cassette tape loops of excerpts from "Socialism and the American Negro" speech by W.E.B. Du Bois
Courtesy of the artist
 
Glenn Ligon - Warm Broad Glow
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Paul D'Amato - 624 W. Division
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
David Levinthal - Untitled, from the Blackface series
David Levinthal - Untitled, from the Blackface series
David Levinthal - Untitled, from the Blackface series
David Levinthal - Untitled, from the Blackface series

David Levinthal - Untitled, from the Blackface series
Hank Willis Thomas - The Johnson Family (from the Unbranded series) 1981/
Jason Lazarus - Standing at the grave of Emmet Till, day of exhumation, May 31st, (Alsip, IL)
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Randy Regier - Impending Future Bus
Andres Serrano - The Interpretation of Dreams (White Nigger)

Andres Serrano - Woman with Infant
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Jonathan Calm - Baruch Runoff #2
Johathan Calm - Isaacs Runoff #1
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Deborah Grant - Capsizing the Niggerati

Deborah Grant - Capsizing the Niggerati
Deborah Grant - Capsizing the Niggerati
Deborah Grant - Capsizing the Niggerati
Terry Adkins - Darkwater Record
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Daniel Roth - Cabrini Green Forest (Portal)
Daniel Roth - Cabrini Green Forest (Portal)
Carl Pope - Exhibition poster

Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Virginia Nimarkoh - Untitled #1 (After Gerhard Richter, Betty, 1988)
Virginia Nimarkoh - Nubian Queen
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Sze Lin Pang - Fetichito
Sze Lin Pang - Fetichito, detail
Mickalene Thomas - Lovely Six Foota
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society

Elizabeth Axtman - Still from "American Classics"
Elizabeth Axtman - Still from "American Classics"
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Todd Gray - Horse
Todd Gray - 7-34-08.5.26.05
Todd Gray - 5-26-05.12.33.38
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Paul D'Amato - Bedroom Door
Paul D'Amato - Tashma

Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Black Is, Black Ain't - Installation View,<br>The Renaissance Society
Thomas Johnson - What a Black Man Feels Like
Thomas Johnson - What a Black Man Feels Like
Thomas Johnson - A White Man Listens To Himself
William Pope.L - One Substance, Eight Supports, One Situation
William Pope.L - One Substance, Eight Supports, One Situation
William Pope.L - One Substance, Eight Supports, One Situation

William Pope.L - Skin Set Drawings
William Pope.L - Skin Set: Red People Are The Tip For Which The Iceberg Has Been Waiting
William Pope.L - Skin Set: Black People Are For Rent
   

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