Works by Nydia Blas and Devin Troy Strother join the permanent collection of the California African American Museum
Devin Troy Strother, Guuuuurl you know i love me some yves kleins to, 2013. Acrylic and auto-body paint on aluminum.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.-Over the Influence announced the acceptance of works by Nydia Blas and Devin Troy Strother into the permanent collection of the California African American Museum (CAAM). Each individual will have two artworks join the museums collection- Blas photographs Way Up and Whatever You Like, both from 2017, and Strothers sculptures downward thoughts of colour, 2020 and guuuuurl you know i love me some yves kleins to, 2013.
Contributors’ Notes
Hussain Ahmed is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. His poems and translations are featured or forthcoming in
Poetry,
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Sara Backer’s first book of poetry,
Such Luck (Flowstone Press, 2019), follows two poetry chapbooks:
Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press, 2018) and
Bicycle Lotus (Left Fork, 2015). Her honors include the 2019 Plough Poetry Prize competition, eight Pushcart nominations, and fellowships from the Norton Island and Djerassi Resident Artists Programs. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, lives in New Hampshire, and reads for the
Maine Review. Point,
Marianne Boruch’s tenth book of poetry is
The Anti-Grief (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). She has written three essay collections about poetry, most recently
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Contemporary artist Brenna Youngblood’s visual language repurposes iconography of the urban experience to examine the politics of abstraction. Her work across painting, mixed-media collage, installation, photography, and sculpture examines issues of African-American representation and identity, recasting historical narratives in a new light. Born in 1979 in Riverside in California, Youngblood was originally trained as a photographer before expanding her practice. In 2002, the artist graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at California State University in Long Beach and in 2006, she went on to complete a Master of Fine Arts at the University of California in Los Angeles. During this time, she met and studied with the artists such as Catherine Opie, James Welling, and John Baldessari, among others. In 2012, the artist received the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Young Talent Award and in 2015, was awarded the Gwendolyn Knight Prize at the Seattle Art Museum, which su
How the esteemed Whitney curator got her start.
April 29, 2021
Curator Rujeko Hockley has always woven art history into the fabric of her life’s pursuits. She described a turning point that came during while an undergraduate at Columbia University, when she realized that art history did not have to be such a narrow course of study.
“Topics I was interested in around questions of equity, questions of race, questions of history, questions of class all of these questions could be a legitimate and valid way to think about the history of art,” she said.
After graduation, she stepped into the museum world as a curatorial assistant at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Since then, she’s taken on roles at the Brooklyn Museum, co-curated a Whitney Biennial, and now works as an assistant curator at the Whitney Museum.