Unititled Birthing Collage Series (Purses)

Narcissister

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Biography

Narcisisster focuses on race, gender, and sexuality through a constant renegotiation of the self, and its inherent performative nature within contemporary society against heteronormative structures of surveillance and policing. Drawing from the myth of Narcissus, self- possession becomes a strategy where humor is deployed to turn a lens back on the ways contemporary society rewards a specific kind of female narcissism. Appropriating methods of self-presentation through combining her professional experience as a dancer and the methodologies of Black radical feminism, her constant performative persona amplifies the ways in which those assigned sexuality and racial deviant from “the norm” have always had to reinvent what was expected of them in order to survive ...

Selected Artworks
Untitled Heads Assembled from Performance Masks (Braid Crown)
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Untitled Heads Assembled from Performance Masks (Braid Crown), 2023
22.9 x 31.8 x 25.4cm
Untitled London Collages, (After Michael W. Monroe Low-back Side Chair, )
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Untitled London Collages, (After Michael W. Monroe Low-back Side Chair, ), 1995
36.8 x 29.2cm
Untitled Study for a Storm King Sculpture (After David Smith Three Ovals Soar, )
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Untitled Study for a Storm King Sculpture (After David Smith Three Ovals Soar, ), 1960
27.9 x 25.4cm
Unititled Birthing Collage Series (Purses)
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Unititled Birthing Collage Series (Purses), 2023
41.91 x 36.2cm
Unititled Birthing Collage Series (Pink Ruffles)
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Unititled Birthing Collage Series (Pink Ruffles), 2023
38.1 x 30.5cm
Unititled Birthing Collage Series (El Trauma Del Nacer)
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Unititled Birthing Collage Series (El Trauma Del Nacer), 2023
38.1 x 30.5cm
Unititled Birthing Collage Series (Bathing Suit)
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Unititled Birthing Collage Series (Bathing Suit), 2023
41.91 x 36.2cm
Unititled Birthing Collage Series (Belly Button)
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Unititled Birthing Collage Series (Belly Button), 2023
27.94 x 21.27cm
Gallery Representation
Awards
Anonymous Was A Woman
 2020
Anonymous Was A Woman
 2020
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Jerome Foundation2013
Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Jerome Foundation2013
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