Counter-Intuitive: Engaging Racial Stereotypes

Deborah Roberts and Floyd Atkins



Austin, Texas artist Deborah Roberts and Chicago, Illinois artist Floyd Atkins use racial stereotypical symbols in their works on paper and canvas.

By co-opting these negative images the artists expect to reverse the ideas and emotions they usually ignite and tell the story of race from their point of view.

 


Exhibition:
February 7 until April 7, 2007
 

Curator:
Prof. Joyce Owens Anderson