Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal presents a survey of the artist's prolific and extraordinary interdisciplinary career, incorporating all aspects of his art, with a particular focus on the work's relationship to the photographic image and to issues of representation and perception. At the core of his practice, is his ability to parse and critically dissect the flow of images that comprises American culture, and to do so with particular attention to race, gender, and cultural identity. Other powerful themes include the commodification of identity through popular media, sports, and advertising. In the ten years since his first publication, Pitch Blackness, Thomas has established himself as a significant voice in contemporary art, equally at home with collaborative, trans-media projects such as Question Bridge, Philly Block, and For Freedoms as he is with high-profile, international solo exhibitions. This extensive presentation of his work contextualizes the material with incisive essays from Portland Art Museum curators Julia Dolan and Sara Krajewski and art historian Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and an in-depth interview between Dr. Kellie Jones and the artist that elaborates on Thomas's influences and inspirations.

Copublished by Aperture and the Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Author: Hank Willis Thomas
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 11/15/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.20lbs
Size: 11.80h x 9.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781597114486

About the Author
Dolan, Julia: - Julia Dolan, PhD, is the Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon. She has worked with the photography collections at institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.Krajewski, Sara: - Sara Krajewski is the Robert and Mercedes Eicholz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon. She is the recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for research into emerging transdisciplinary artistic practices.Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth: - Sarah Elizabeth Lewis is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery (2015), and served as guest editor for "Vision & Justice," an issue of Aperture magazine, for which she received the 2017 Infinity Award for Critical Writing and Research from the International Center of Photography.
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