Parenting While Black

2020

Photo collage on paper, in custom mahogany and resin artist frame with automotive paint

45 x 49 3/4 x 3 5/8in

Rashaad Newsome’s work Parenting While Black was created at his home in Oakland during the COVID-19 pandemic this year. While sheltering in place, the work reflects the experience of being in isolation and observing the ongoing and increasingly visible violence against Black people, and the crippling anxiety that a parent must feel losing a child in this way. Newsome’s multidisciplinary approach draws from Black and queer cultural histories to create contemporary narratives, centering on intersectionality. Parenting While Black will appear in OMCA’s upcoming 2021 exhibition Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism. Full Press Release Here!