A Special Tribute for Tamasha Thembi Akua Williamson
Sunrise: July 2, 1975 - Sunset: September 4, 2016 RIP
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| Tamasha Williamson as a moderator for a panel discussion at the Switching Station Artist Lofts in East Garfield Park, CAM 2007. |
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| Featured artist Chicago Artist Month, installation at the Switching Station Artist Lofts. |
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| Representing the voice of reason and expressing her ideology and conceptual art practice. |
"If the ability to be self-critical is a marker of a culture’s strength and maturity, then the artists presented in the exhibition “Disinhibition” blow a fresh breath of confidence into the conversation around contemporary African-American art. Curated by HPAC’s Blake Bradford, the exhibition brings together the work of emerging and one well-established artist who uses provocative humor to illuminate uncomfortable truths. The attitude can be summarized as “political correctness and solidarity be damned! Here is the truth!” Heavy on irony and anger, many of the works team with frustrated despair with both white racism and the less savory aspects of black culture.
The predominant strategy is an illustration by the use of telling juxtapositions. Tamasha Williamson’s drawing series “It Is isn't It? The African-American Vernacular and the King’s English: Validation v. Degradation (Articulate)” collages loaded words and phrases such as “bling” with loaded imagery such as slave shackles and bullets. Blake Bradford
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| Tamasha designed the Phantom's postcard for the 2008 fundraiser at LBP, she was a graphic artist.
It Is…Ain’t It? African-American Vernacular and the King’s English: Validation v. Degradation (Articulate), 2007 Graphite On Paper 24 X 36 © Tamasha Williamson
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