Rashaad Newsome: Hands Performance
First Los Angeles solo exhibition and new work by multi-disciplinary artist Rashaad Newsome
September 16, 2023 through February 24, 2024
On view at the Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery
ArtCenter College of Design
Opening reception: Saturday, September 16th, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The first major museum exhibition devoted to the subject, Multiplicity presents over 80 major collage and collage-informed works that reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity. Featuring an intergenerational group of 52 living artists, Multiplicity explores the varying ways collage is employed and how the technique suggests diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. By assembling pieces of paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives despite our fragmented society.
Can AI be used for the greater good? Rashaad Newsome shows us how with his community-healing robot.
Newsome and Clarke-Brown discuss the artist’s new animated video work, Hands Performance, commissioned by Somerset House. Together, they reflect on how the film platforms the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community while considering the limits of language and how AI informs his practice.
