A number of latest work by Brooklyn-based artist Hilary Harkness. By way of her portray apply, Harkness reimagines histories that touch upon sociocultural forces with a up to date revisionist sensibility. Her earlier work targeted on the World Battle II period, and her latest physique of labor, “The Arabella Freeman Sequence,” is an ongoing episodic venture. Now represented by P.P.O.W. Gallery, the sequence was conceived as a part of the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Copyist Program, during which Harkness started reworking Winslow Homer’s iconic Civil Battle period portray, Prisoners from the Entrance, 1866, by altering the race of one of many figures to a Black Union soldier.
“With that as a genesis, I started to understand that altering the race of 1 character wasn’t such a easy tweak,” Harkness explains. “How would this be potential, given the historical past and legal guidelines put into place to forestall Black wealth, freedom, and citizenship? My questions generated extra questions. I learn, I wrote, I painted, making an attempt to make sense of the world because it was with a view to paint it as I needed it to be. This sequence presents another narrative centered round an everlasting relationship between Homer’s protagonist, Union Normal Barlow, and a fictitious, free Virginia landowning African-American household, the Freemans.”
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