Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku.
Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans Erizku's career, blending his studio practice with his work as an in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons, such as Solange, Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the New York Times, "It's important for me to create confident, powerful, downright regal images of Black people."
Featuring essays by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James, and writer Doreen St. Felix, and interviews with the artist by Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and arresting testament to the artist's tremendous power and originality.
Copublished by Aperture and The Momentary
Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku.
Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines African American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans Erizku's career, blending his studio practice with his work as an in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons, such as Solange, Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the New York Times, "It's important for me to create confident, powerful, downright regal images of Black people."
Featuring essays by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James, and writer Doreen St. Felix, and interviews with the artist by Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and arresting testament to the artist's tremendous power and originality.
Copublished by Aperture and The Momentary
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Awol Erizku (born in Ethiopia, 1988) lives and works in Los
Angeles. He graduated from Cooper Union in 2010 and received his
MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2014. Erizku has exhibited at
the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum,
Bentonville, Arkansas; Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto; Ben
Brown Gallery, Hong Kong; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Gagosian, New
York; and FLAG Art Foundation, New York. Ishmael Reed is a
critically acclaimed author, poet, and playwright known for his
satirical and ironic take on race and literary tradition. He is the
recipient of numerous awards and honors, including fellowships from
the MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the
National Endowment for the Arts. Ashley James is an associate
curator of contemporary art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in
New York, where her work merges curatorial practice with an
academic background rooted in African American studies, English
literature, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Doreen St.
Félix is a staff writer at the New Yorker and has previously
written for publications, including the New York Times, Vogue, n+1,
and Pitchfork. Urs Fischer is a Swiss-born artist who works across
sculpture, installation, and photography.
Antwaun Sargent is a writer, curator, and a director at Gagosian
Gallery. His recent books are The New Black Vanguard: Photography
Between Art and Fashion (Aperture, 2019) and Young, Gifted and
Black: A New Generation of Artists (2020). His recent curatorial
projects include a series of group shows called Social Works, as
well as solo presentations of artists Virgil Abloh, Awol Erizku,
Rick Lowe, Tyler Mitchell, Alexandria Smith, and Amanda Williams.
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