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Curator + Writer + Arts Project Consultant
Email: Cmwatts06@gmail.com
Curator + Writer + Arts Project Consultant
Email: Cmwatts06@gmail.com
Show Me a Hero III
Shaunté Gates
On View: March - July 2022
Curated for Eaton Hotel, Washington D.C.
Artist: Shaunté Gates
https://www.shauntegates.com/
Words by Shaunte Gates:
Shaunte Gates’s “The Land Of Myth” series is a psycho-geographical interrogation into world-breaking and building and the stories that often influence our identities. Through a multi-disciplinary approach - incorporating photography, painting, found texts, collage, and family portraits. Gates’s “Land of Myth” dreamscapes are a circumnavigation of the labyrinthine social constructs of race, class, and the very real physical sites wherein people enact, inhabit and perform them. Using the architecture of the District of Columbia’s public housing projects as a starting point, the artist builds compositions in search of a feeling of rootedness with a complex series of gestures, and woven layers of history, personal history, American popular culture, and mythology.
Photography by Idreezus Studios
Artist: Shaunté Gates
https://www.shauntegates.com/
Words by Shaunte Gates:
Shaunte Gates’s “The Land Of Myth” series is a psycho-geographical interrogation into world-breaking and building and the stories that often influence our identities. Through a multi-disciplinary approach - incorporating photography, painting, found texts, collage, and family portraits. Gates’s “Land of Myth” dreamscapes are a circumnavigation of the labyrinthine social constructs of race, class, and the very real physical sites wherein people enact, inhabit and perform them. Using the architecture of the District of Columbia’s public housing projects as a starting point, the artist builds compositions in search of a feeling of rootedness with a complex series of gestures, and woven layers of history, personal history, American popular culture, and mythology.
Photography by Idreezus Studios