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Sedrick Chisom
Born in 1989, Philadelphia, United States
Lives and works in New York City, United States, Brooklyn, United States
Overview
At the center of Sedrick Chisom’s practice is a commitment to confounding racial origin myths and pseudosciences toward creating apocalyptic fantasies in writing and painting. Appropriating imagery from Black Lives Matter demonstrations, medieval Christian iconography, and Greek mythology, Chisom questions who has the power to construct natural and social worlds, upending the authority of those worlds in the process. Chisom appoints himself a new mythmaker, one whose motivation is fundamentally ...Read more
Selected artworks
Sedrick Chisom
The Kemetopians, 2020
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Sedrick Chisom
The Strife of Talons Over a Hat of the Southern Cross, 2020
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Medusa's Covenant With The Lord of the Woods, 2020
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The Wholly Avoidable Death of Mighty Whitey, The Last Drunk Dionysian Hero, AKA The Wholly Tragic Birth of Fragile Narcissus, 2020
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The Woes of the Westward Kingdom were Such that the Angel Moroni Delivered A Dionysian Hero to the Daughters and Sons of the Southern Cross, 2020
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Sedrick Chisom
A self identified 'Axe-bish' of the Blighted Calvary Stood Guard over the Occidental Tower - she was among many daughters of the Southern Cross, 2020
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A Blighted Cavalryman Patrolled the Valley of The Rocks on His Worn Out Horse Through Dead Mist at Miasmic Ass-crack Hours, 2021
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The Dreadful Constitution of a Perplexed Centenarian Who Stumbled Through The Realm in the Age of Fire and Snow, 2021
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The Drunk Cooldown Rhythms Capitulated By a Deserter of The Southern Cross on Intimate Terms with Catastrophe, 2020
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The Hero of Dionysus Emerged Inching Through Umbrage, 2020
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The Hateful Heart of White Diver, A Harbinger of The Apocalypse, Whose Anguished Nativity and Bad Teeth Could Not Disguise Blighted Hands, 2022
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Sedrick Chisom
TBC finished as CHIS 2022002, 2021
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