Fact Magazine launches its new issue featuring a 24-page spread of newly commissioned work by Rashaad Newsome, featuring texts from Ruha Benjamin, Patrik-Ian Polk, Dazie Grego Sykes, Darnell L. Moore, Alok Vaid-Menon, Legacy Russell, Antwaun Sargent, Black Quantum Futurism, Ekow Eshun and James Baldwin.
Fact’s Fall/Winter ’22 issue features a 24-page spread of newly commissioned work by Rashaad Newsome consisting of images of new collages, sculpture, photography, and CGI. Collectively the images touch on long-standing themes in Newsome’s work, such as the importance of community for Black Queer folks, the relationship between Blacks and abstraction, and Black people and technology(past, present, and speculative future). To support him in this endeavor, Newsome sent his work to friends and colleagues and asked them to respond with a quote, text, or poem, resulting in a collection of innovative images and thoughtful writings.
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In the Black Fantastic podcast with: Rashaad Newsome x The Twilite Tone
Artist Rashaad Newsome and DJ & Producer Twilite Tone join Hayward Gallery for the first of a four-part podcast in which they pair artists with musicians and writers for a conversation drawing on the themes of the InTheBlackFantastic exhibition.
A Public Skin at Josh Lilley Gallery London, 1 September – 1 October 2022
A Public Skin
Rashaad Newsome, Joan Nelson, Bassam Al‑Sabah, Alex Olson & Alteronce Gumby
1 September – 1 October 2022
Andy Warhol’s infamous 1966 claim that anyone seeking traces of authorship in his work need only look at the surface of his paintings, sculptures, and films – “there I am. There’s nothing behind it” – is only really infamous if you think of surfaces as superficial, or of superficiality as something not worth thinking about. Superficiality is only skin deep anyway: any painting is two surfaces touching, like hands in prayer, a hidden support, and a visible outer skin. Applying the latter to the former is a matter of masking or concealment, with all the suggestive potential that brings to mind. It’s in the gap between the two that the approaches of the artists on show here come to life. The aim is not to disentangle them but to see one in terms of the other, to hold the private support and the public surface in productive tension. Painting, here, is the guiding metaphor, despite the range of media on show: its interplay of skins is the territory we’re in.
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