Evolve Black aesthetics with curator, art critic Antwaun Sargent and photographer Tyler Mitchell
Join Gagosian director, curator, editor, and art critic Antwaun Sargent and Brooklyn-based photographer and filmmaker Tyler Mitchell for Reframing Utopia: Evolving Aesthetics of Blackness at SCADstyle 2022. Sargent and Mitchell discuss new approaches to image-making and how generations of Black artists continue to transform visual culture.
In his role at Gagosian, Sargent elevates artists whose practices examine prescient issues of identity and representation. Author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion and editor of Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists, he has contributed critical scholarship on artists Mickalene Thomas, Arthur Jafa, Meleko Mokgosi, Nick Cave, Yinka Shonibare, and Ed Clark, among others. Follow @sirsargent on Instagram.
In 2018, Mitchell became the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of American Vogue for Beyoncé’s appearance in the September issue. His debut monograph, I Can Make You Feel Good — published on the occasion of his first U.S. solo exhibition at the International Center of Photography, New York, in 2020 — expands on his vision of a Black utopia. Mitchell was awarded the 2020 Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship. Follow @tylersphotos on Instagram.
This in-person and live-streamed event is free and open to the public and presented as part of SCADstyle 2022.
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