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Untitled Kimpsons 2004
KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations.
At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
Untitled, Kimpsons, 2001
KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations.
At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
Kimpsons series 2005
KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations.
At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
Untitled (Kimpsons #2) 2004
KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations.
At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
Untitled (Space chain) commissioned for Kid Cudi, 2021
KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations.
At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations.
At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
For this assignment, I drew inspiration from the stylistic qualities of Stephen Shore, a prominent figure in Social Landscape Photography. Shore's work often explores everyday scenes and objects, capturing the essence of American life with precision and clarity. In my photograph, I aimed to emulate Shore's approach by focusing on a seemingly ordinary subject, theaters. Like Shore, I sought to capture the mundane beauty of urban landscapes, using composition and framing to highlight the theaters as central elements within the scene. The theaters serve as symbols of cultural significance and community gathering places, reflecting the social landscape of the area. In terms of postmodernism, my photograph embraces the idea of deconstruction and recontextualization. By isolating the theaters within the frame and presenting them devoid of human presence, I invite viewers to contemplate the spaces themselves and the narratives they hold. The photograph challenges traditional notions of perspective and invites viewers to reconsider the significance of these seemingly mundane structures in the broader context of society. Overall, my photograph pays homage to Stephen Shore's style while also incorporating elements of postmodernism to create a thought-provoking and visually engaging image of urban life.
Handicrafts item can be completely recontextualized and re-valued through the partnership of tradition and sophisticated design.handcrafted
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The image displays a sculpture titled "Yasuke" by artist Carlos Rolón, also known as Dzine.
The sculpture depicts the legendary Black Samurai, Yasuke, who served Oda Nobunaga in 16th-century Japan.
It is crafted from recycled tires and features intricate details, including dreadlocks made from tire treads and a bicycle sprocket earring.
The work explores themes of identity, representation, and the recontextualization of materials.
"Yasuke" was part of Rolón's solo exhibition "The Age of Enlightenment" at the Dallas Contemporary in 2024
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The artwork shown is "Enough About You" (2016) by artist Titus Kaphar.
This piece focuses on an enslaved Black boy, previously depicted in an 18th-century painting alongside Elihu Yale and his family at the Yale Center for British Art.
Kaphar's work recontextualizes the original painting, literally crumpling the part that depicts Elihu Yale and his family to bring the enslaved child to the forefront, making him the central subject.
The original painting, "Elihu Yale with Members of his Family and an Enslaved Child," was removed from display in 2021 due to the distressing depiction of the enslaved child and replaced with Kaphar's "Enough About You" on loan.
Kaphar's work aims to reverse the marginalization and dehumanization of people of African descent in art history by highlighting their stories and presence
This vibrant triptych recontextualizes iconic gaming figures through the lens of Neo-Expressionist Pop Art. By applying aggressive, street-style splatter techniques to Princess Peach, Mario, and the Power-Up Mushroom, the work strips away digital perfection to reveal raw, painterly energy. Consumable goods with a touch.
Original- ad for Mercedes, "Precision workmanship since Day One"
Recontextualization- The effort people put into not only preserving and restoring historic cars, but also maintaining an elite, exclusive image by owning such a car. Most of the surviving 300SL's have returned to this state likely a few times in their lives; no expense spared to keep them pristine
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
Secure the Bag, Mint the Soaps and Throw the Bones is a site of exchange that aims to recontextualize the intricate histories of the brown paper bag and Hispano cuaba soap while inviting the audience to play a game of dominoes. This is based on the artist’s ongoing examination of these items found in private and domestic settings. Nonetheless, their combined racialized, colonial and social complexity reverberates in the customs and dynamics of collective space within a black diasporic subjectivity and imagination. To learn more visit www.recessart.org/francheskaalcantara/
The sculptures will celebrate a diverse range of approaches by the BIPOC gaze in an exhibition that combines practices from the arts and fashion to question traditional notions of Eurocentric fashion. MAXI will examine fashion from the Afro-Indigenous point of view, using radical imagination to recontextualize dress and adornment. By changing the gaze, clothing and decoration become not a means of domination and control but a tool of empowerment and joyful rebellion. MAXI will include photography, video, and ceramic sculptures.
The work “sheds light on the manner in which personal and collective identities might transform, renew and adapt depending on the environments the artist constructs,” says artist Charo Oquet, “…characterized by manifold interweaving between art, design, fashion, and architecture, it addresses current discourses of global relevance.”
KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations.
At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations.
At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations.
At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
"Wanderline” is a project to transform the world's transportation networks (buses, streetcars, trains, roads, routes, walkways, etc.) into a new musical experience.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, humanity faced a pandemic which limited our ability to travel and physically connect with other people.
After having experienced profound isolation and travel restrictions, what kind of journeys will we make when we emerge from this pandemic?
"Wanderline" is a location-based, audiovisual application that allows such new travelers to enjoy music which can only be heard in a specific place. "Wanderline" can be experienced by installing the app on a smartphone and physically traveling along the featured “line” in geographic space.
The interactive music changes not only according to location but also according to speed, time, and weather; providing people with an experience that is unique to the moment.
This project collaboratively explores audiovisual experiences with creators by recontextualizing global transportation networks as open platforms for new music. Starting with Tram Line 1 of Linz, the project will then move to the water buses of Venice and will incorporate additional lines in the future.
How will the new "Wanderlust" inspire us creatively for the post-pandemic world?
"Wanderline" takes a fresh look at the various networks of lines created by humanity and presents us with a new form of journey.
"Wanderline” is a project to transform the world's transportation networks (buses, streetcars, trains, roads, routes, walkways, etc.) into a new musical experience.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, humanity faced a pandemic which limited our ability to travel and physically connect with other people.
After having experienced profound isolation and travel restrictions, what kind of journeys will we make when we emerge from this pandemic?
"Wanderline" is a location-based, audiovisual application that allows such new travelers to enjoy music which can only be heard in a specific place. "Wanderline" can be experienced by installing the app on a smartphone and physically traveling along the featured “line” in geographic space.
The interactive music changes not only according to location but also according to speed, time, and weather; providing people with an experience that is unique to the moment.
This project collaboratively explores audiovisual experiences with creators by recontextualizing global transportation networks as open platforms for new music. Starting with Tram Line 1 of Linz, the project will then move to the water buses of Venice and will incorporate additional lines in the future.
How will the new "Wanderlust" inspire us creatively for the post-pandemic world?
"Wanderline" takes a fresh look at the various networks of lines created by humanity and presents us with a new form of journey.