About the Work
In Untitled (Venus-Flower Spotted), Lennon Jno-Baptiste creates a strange vision of paradise: a scraggly and disjointed garden full of childishly drawn flowers and black smudges. A black woman in the background shows off her exaggerated feminine figure—a play on historical representations of fertility goddesses, the roman goddess Venus, and stereotypes of African-American women—while a male figure stands prominently in the foreground, posing as an ambiguous hybrid of black and white race.
About the Artist
Born in Dominica in the West Indies and raised in New York City, Lennon Jno-Baptiste's work is based on the legends and icons of African-American history—characters like the Hottentot Venus, the Chickenman/Griffin, the Gorilla and the Boxer—that may have contributed to our construction of racial and cultural stereotypes. By placing these characters in a number of historical and symbolic landscapes, he examines the repetitive problems that plague history, including war, segregation, and racism.
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Description
Print made with archival pigments on fine art rag paper.Authentication
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity and an artist signed label on verso.Dimensions
This print contains a border as dictated by the artist to allow for framing and the quoted dimensions are for the paper size and not the printed size of the image itself.Shipping
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