I am pleased to share that one of my large scale drawing that was acquired by the MOMA is now in view in their permanent collection wing. It is pictured here with the work of Glen Ligon, in the gallery themed Objects of Desire.
In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime. More than 150 years later, artist Kenturah Davis revisited the historical congressional debates over the amendment in order to make this monumental work on paper. By impressing text from the transcribed debates into the paper without using ink, Davis created a textured surface.
She then rubbed carbon pencil across the paper to produce an image of a figure. "The structures that shape our experience in the world extend from the ways we use language,"
Davis has said. "The implications of this language are activated through our bodies."