Renée Cox
Renee Cox is a highly political and controversial Jamaican / American artist. She often uses her own body, both clothed and nude, to illustrate her perceptions of black womanhood within a racist and sexist society.
Queen Nanny of the Maroons Series
River Queen
Nanny Warrior
Mother to us All
Lolyvia 2004The Raje Series (depicts Cox as a black woman superhero)
Chillin with Miss Liberty
Raje and the Sphinx Lost in Space 1998
The Distinct Charm of the Bougies Series
Miss Thang2008
Housewife
Renee Cox standing in front of Yo Mama's Last Supper Brooklyn Museum of ArtRudy Giuliani has a hissy-fit over Renee Cox's Yo Mama's Last Supper and other "anti-Catholic" works of art. Renee Cox's response: ""Get over it!" Cox said. "Why can't a woman be Christ? We are the givers of life!"
American Family Series
Yo Mama Series
Yo Mama &
Your Mama (the sequel)
1993 and 1996
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Flippin' the Script Series
Atlas (World Up)
WOW - what amazing conceptions! I LOVE IT when artists see things I'd never imagine.
ReplyDeleteGreat find, Gina. :)
Wow, I hadn't seen her work before. It's wonderful and I'm very glad you posted it.
ReplyDeleteCR and Susan: she's gone straight to the top of my list of contemporary artists who really have something accessible to say to us and not just useless, esoteric drivel.
ReplyDeleteThank you both for checking out the post - it took me forever to put it together!
she is a goddess and a wonder
ReplyDeleteI got into her after the show in Brooklyn
Rudy killed me with his "hissy fit" as you so beautifully put it
given he's a liar, cheater, adulterer I was so touched by his concern for Christian values - they were so well placed outside of himself ;)
Di: I just get Renee Cox on a gut-level. If someone were to say they don't get it, I would be at a loss to explain it. Then again, she makes sense. For those to whom it does not make sense can shut up about it, already. It doesn't have to touch their narrow lives if they don't want it to.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't she look like she's on tip-toes like Barbie, in the black and white shot holding the child?
Awesome from many perspectives. Natural art. Statements made, powerfully, without words.
ReplyDeletegreat great dramatic intense post - loved the all of it -
ReplyDeleteAn incredible photographic essay on this marvelous artist! :)
ReplyDeleteSpadoman, Gypsy and Mary. It's always a pleasure to see what art people who read the blog will like. I'm glad you all enjoyed as much as I did putting the post together and discovering so much more about Renee Cox than Yo Mama's Last Supper - for which she got all the flack.
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