cl-assy-methbaby: pricantaz:lagonegirl:youthincare:lagonegirl: The artist it’s a powerful p
cl-assy-methbaby: pricantaz: lagonegirl: youthincare: lagonegirl: The artist it’s a powerful project #MichaelBrown #BlackLivesMatter [ image is photograph of a brick wall with two big posters. the first one is the new york times article with every line blacked out except “officer Darren Wilson fatally shot unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown.” and to the right is a large blow up poster of Michael Brown in a graduation photo. ] A Teenager With Promise Powerful This is Alexandra Bell’s work for her series called “counter narratives” who is an incredible artist from Chicago (now based in NYC, I believe) who revises mainstream media pieces about Black people to actually reflect the reality of Black folks and to make white media bias visible. She has one about Serena Williams and the whitensupremacist who attacked demonstrators in Charlottesville with his car. Bell visited and spoke at the art museum I used to work at and put her work up across the university campus. She’s a fkn icon. Follow Bell’s work. -- source link