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Thirst Trap
2020
Rashaad Newsome
Not on view
Rashaad Newsome pulls from art history, advertising, and Black queer culture to produce counterhegemonic works that balance social practice, abstraction, and intersectionality. Newsome’s
work is multifaceted, but collage remains a core method by which the artist constructs a new cultural and political framework. Presented in a luxurious nineteenth-century Dutch style frame, Thirst Trap combines photographs of West African masks, totems, and sculptures with male nudes in poses that evoke voguing, a dance subculture crafted by Black and Brown queer people. In doing so, Newsome reframes the modes of modernist appropriation of African art and aesthetics.
- Artist
- Rashaad Newsome
- Title
- Thirst Trap
- Date
- 2020
- Object Type
- Collage
- Medium
- Collage on paper in custom mahogany and resin artist frame with automotive paint
- Dimensions
- 45 1/4 x 43 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (114.935 x 110.966 x 11.43 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, a gift of The Svane family Foundation
- Accession Number
- 2022.26.24a-b