Date of Award
Spring 6-3-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Painting
First Advisor
Jackie Gendel
Second Advisor
Jennifer Packer
Third Advisor
Roger White
Abstract
A comedian said, “American pie isn’t made out of apples, it’s made out of whatever you can get your fucking hands on.”1 With that, my work seeks to provide an honest representation of the infinite value of the everydayness and behavior of blackness ranging from trauma to beauty. Various mediums explore culture, class, collective memory, identity, and erasure. While resisting institutional and systemic boundaries between disciplines my practice actively seeks fluidity between media. The work often translates to (social) poetic-bricolage visualizations that combine gestures of assemblage, sculpture, installation, and painting. The work focuses on reflecting on how I see life and my environment, which translates to a multimelaninated reality of the Black experience. I’m learning and pulling from history and retelling and making a new history from the present within the present. Like the wildstyle subway graffiti artists, I’m stating “I WAS HERE”.
Recommended Citation
Lendor, Jahi, "margins (i nvr needed acceptance from all u outsiders)" (2023). Masters Theses. 1143.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1143
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