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Anthony Lee-The Reclamation of Color and Artist Lecture

Delta Axis

May 29-June 13, 2008

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Fuel for the Fire – Artist Lecture
May 29, 2008, 6 – 7pm
Power House Memphis

The Reclamation of Color.
The Fuel Room
Power House Memphis
May 30, 2008 – July 13, 2008
Opening reception Friday, May 30, 6 - 9pm

Delta Axis announces its newest contemporary art program, The Fuel Room.
Created with the support of Arts Enhancement funds from ArtsMemphis, this program will present art installations highlighting local, regional and national emerging or mid-career artists within the Power House building. The purpose of this program is to present exhibitions in the Power House on a more frequent schedule and to create opportunities for local, regional and national artists to gain recognition through exhibiting work at Memphis’s premiere contemporary art venue.

The Fuel Room continues with a new installation by Anthony Lee entitled The Reclamation of Color.

Artist Statement:
There are terms issued to colors that connote race. Or, perhaps better stated- color words that define specific skin colors. This exhibit reclaims these color words by assigning them a different color, attempting to visually recondition the viewer’s association of color with the word.
Words like mulatto conjure thoughts of the color beige, because it is applied to color solely in terms of race. What if the context of race was removed from this color word? Could the word mulatto exist solely in terms of color? Will the viewer be convinced of its transformation?
Most of these color words are now verbally extinct. They were either regarded as derogatory epithets, or were simply replaced with more correct language (i.e.: Negro becomes African-American). To a younger viewer, the color word or epithet may have been dormant long enough to escape recognition; thusly allowing for an easier reconditioning of the word to happen.
The works mimic the Ralph Lauren paint samples that I use extensively in my collages.

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  Dates:
  May 29-June 13, 2008

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  Artist Lecture Thursday, May 29, 6-7 pm
  Opening reception Friday, May 30, 6 - 9pm

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  Power House

  45 G.E Patterson Memphis, TN 38103

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