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KAHLIL ROBERT IRVING
[ STREET & Stars | (Memories <> Matter) fair and FREEDOM] Black ICE, 2019
Glazed and unglazed stoneware and white clay, grog, decals, luster, gilded pyrometric cones
Courtesy of the artist and the Ferring Collection
Irving's stoneware tile piece, echoing asphalt, hovers off the ground like a floating street that mirrors the night sky of the artist's dreams. Irving uses collage, decals, digitally printed material and actual detritus embedded in the multiple clay panels to recreate the experience of the cityscape from a bird's-eye view. His pioneering work with clay assemblage beautifully and uncomfortably recreates an everyday landscape of littered sidewalks with torn bits of newspapers announcing the latest violence against African Americans amongst the cigarette packages and social media fragments. The repetition of eighty oversized tiles creates the bold scale and magnifies its black power. |