January 2014
Plain Dealer reviews Hank Willis Thomas
23/01/14
Hank Willis Thomas at Transformer Station and the Cleveland Museum of Art: Exploring race, corporate power and cultural stereotypes
Steve Litt - Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Every day in zillions of ways, major-league sports, movies, television and advertising pump out rivers of stereotypical images of African-Americans and other racial and ethnic groups. It’s so pervasive and overwhelming that it’s easy to let it all wash over you and take it for granted.
This is manifestly not how artist Hank Willis Thomas regards the daily visual flow.
In a polished and wickedly on-target multipart exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Transformer Station in Ohio City, Thomas, 37, who lives and works in New York and San Francisco, captures, appropriates and overturns cliched media images of African-Americans. Read More...
Steve Litt - Plain Dealer
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Every day in zillions of ways, major-league sports, movies, television and advertising pump out rivers of stereotypical images of African-Americans and other racial and ethnic groups. It’s so pervasive and overwhelming that it’s easy to let it all wash over you and take it for granted.
This is manifestly not how artist Hank Willis Thomas regards the daily visual flow.
In a polished and wickedly on-target multipart exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Transformer Station in Ohio City, Thomas, 37, who lives and works in New York and San Francisco, captures, appropriates and overturns cliched media images of African-Americans. Read More...