Skin Set Drawing: Red People Are from Mars Green People Are from New Jersey
From today’s newsletter announcing 3 new 20x200 editions by William Pope.L:
Cycle through the sentences he has depicted throughout the drawings’ history and see how squirmy you get as you encounter these bold pronouncements about what people are (or are not). The ones describing black or white people have a sense of intentional confrontation. Certainly there’s no small perversity in the idea of a white person buying a work by a black artist entitled White People Are the Future—buying it, and (hopefully) displaying it, but the other more imaginatively colored humans convey their perversity in more subtle ways.
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