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Nayland Blake
Contemporary Art
On View:
Nayland Blake is known for work that emphasizes issues of race and sexuality. He explores the complexity of racial and sexual identity and social prejudice, using the image of the rabbit to refer to not only gay sexuality and African American heritage but individual freedom from society’s classifications. In 2000 he stated, “I’m using the rabbit as this metaphor for something that’s sort of in-between race. Of indeterminate race. That came from thinking about Br’er Rabbit. . . . Those stories are West African folktales that came into this country with slaves. They’re like the progenitor of Bugs Bunny. So in thinking about my own racial identity, I kept sort of using this rabbit metaphor.”
MEDIUM
Charcoal
DATES
2000
DIMENSIONS
63 × 106 in. (160 × 269.2 cm)
frame: 61 3/4 × 105 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (156.8 × 268.6 × 6.4 cm)
ACCESSION NUMBER
2000.57
CREDIT LINE
Emily Winthrop Miles Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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