Confederate monuments started to go up across Virginia at a time when lynching cases were peaking and the state enacted a constitution that disenfranchised Black voters.
Reclaiming The Monument, a projection-based protest art project by Richmond-based artists Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui, has been given a grant of $670,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation a Monuments Project.
The Valentine Museum and the Richmond projectionists Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui who transformed the Lee Monument have won a $670,000 grant for public art project called “Recontextualizing Richmond.”
Kris Graves photography exhibition opens at the Berman Museum of Art
Kris Graves, George Floyd Projection, 2020. Peaceful protests at the Robert E. Lee Circle on Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia at night.
COLLEGEVILLE, PA
.- A new exhibition on view online at the Berman Museum features photographer Kris Graves homage to the contemporary Black experience. Eighty portraits and video images of Black subjects reveal uniqueness through brilliant, richly hued color.
The exhibition includes a projected image of George Floyd on a graffiti-covered monument of Robert E. Lee taken at the height of Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. Graves instantly iconic image was displayed on the January 2021 cover of National Geographic magazine. Gravess image poignantly captures the commanding graphic potency of Floyds visagerendered solely in lightvisually overtaking the material substantiality of bronze and stone.