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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 © Lola Flash, Kinky D , London [sur]passing series, 2003. Digital c-print, 60x48"  © Lola Flash, Karrise, London [sur]passing series, 2003. Digital c-print, 60x48" Available through the En Foco Print Collectors Program  © Lola Flash, Carriemae, New York [sur]passing series. Digital c-print. |
Lola Flash Born: 1959, Montclair, NJ Resides: New York, NY Heritage: African/Native American Selected Exhibitions: En Foco at Venice Arts, Venice, CA 2013 En Foco at The Arts at CIIS, San Francisco, CA 2013 En Foco at Aljira, Newark, NJ 2012 En Foco at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC 2012 Nueva Luz Photographs: 1985–2011, Bronxville, NY 2012 En Foco at Light Work, Syracuse, NY 2011 Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 2011 Spattered Columns, New York, NY, 2011 Gordon Parks Gallery, Bronx, NY 2010 New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA 2010 Posing Beauty, NYU/TISCH, New York, NY 2009 Advocate/Gochies Gallery, LA 2009 Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY 2007 En Foco at John Jay College Art Gallery, New York, NY Chelsea Galleria, Miami, FL 240 Old Street Gallery, London, UK Soho Curzon, London, UK Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT 2005 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD 2005 Clock Tower and the Women’s Library, London, UK 2003 FNAC, Paris, France Juan et Juanita Gallery, Paris, France Grey Gallery, New York, NY DUMBA Collective in Brooklyn, NY Education: MA, 2003, London College of Printing BFA, 1981, Maryland Institute College of Art Awards: London Arts Board Grant, 1994 Collections: Victoria and Albert Museum in London Residencies: Light Work, Syracuse, NY, 2008 Publications: Nueva Luz photographic journal, Volume 11#1 (En Foco: Bronx, 2006) Artist’s Statement: The premise of [sur]passing is based on a series of larger than life size color portraits that probe the impact skin pigmentation plays on black identity and consciousness. It is based on a series of larger than life size color portraits that probe the impact skin pigmentation plays on black identity and consciousness. Primarily due to the melanin count of their skin, light and dark-skinned blacks opportunities can differ enormously ranging from overt favoritism to extreme alienation. Kobena Mercer coins this process as a "pigmentocracy" - based on skin-tone. This scandalous and often heart wrenching story line dates back to colonial America and it clearly perseveres today. In [sur]passing the models are shot with a large format camera from towering urban vantage points, highlighting the re-generation of a new inner-city culture, they become divine, larger than the purposely out of focus buildings of the London, New York and South African skylines, in contrast to the sharp, crisp rendering of each subject. The subjects assertively return the gaze, without being confrontational and by hanging the four-foot by five-foot photographs above eye level, the viewer has no choice but to "look up" to these young people posed as if characters from a modern Shakespeare melodrama. So, as the title [sur]passing suggests, these portraits represent a "new generation" - one that is above and beyond "passing". We represent a fresh pride and strength; where ambiguity and blurred borders create an individuality that elevates consciousness and advances a plethora of complex and positive imagery of [black] people in the Diaspora and all over the world. Website: |
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