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ARTIST STATEMENT
These large scale photomontages comprised of dense image clusters—juxtaposing popular culture, art historical references, political and entertainment figures, unique Polaroid prints, newspaper clippings, and re-photographed images of the artist’s works among other personal ephemera—evoke complex, layered associations excavated from collective memory.
These new pieces emerged from a set of collage studies originally developed by Harris to explore the African Baroque, published in the catalog of “Nero su Bianco,” a 2015 exhibition exploring contemporary and historical cross-currents of Italian and African influence, co-curated by Harris, fellow artist and critic Robert Storr, and Peter Benson Miller at the American Academy in Rome.
BIO
Lyle Ashton Harris (born in Bronx, New York, 1965) has cultivated a diverse artistic practice, ranging from photography and collage to video installation and performance art, examining the impact of race, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic globally through intersections of the personal and the political. Harris has been widely exhibited internationally, and a solo exhibition spanning three decades is currently being presented at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) and will travel to the Queens Museum (New York) in 2024. His work is included in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Tate Modern among many public and private collections internationally. Harris’s Ektachrome Archive was the subject of a photography monograph published by Aperture in 2017 and an exhibition catalog published by ICA Miami in 2023.
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