Darrel Ellis

Regeneration

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As moving as it is complex, the multifaceted work of Darrel Ellis restages a lost vision of Black selfhood and domesticity

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During his short career, Bronx-born Darrel Ellis (1958-1992) created a multifaceted and expansive body of work merging painting, printmaking, photography, and drawing before his premature death due to AIDS-related causes. Ellis’s greatest achievement happened in his early twenties, when he was given a group of negatives shot by his father, a postal worker and studio photographer who died in police custody shortly before Ellis was born. The younger Ellis’s unique studio practice involved projecting these photographic negatives onto a sculpted surface, masking out areas, and re-photographing them, generating a stream of surrogates that capture the fleeting effects of memory and the experience of disillusion. Ellis’s technical and theoretical experimentation transformed contemporary serial and appropriation practices into something unrecognizably new, beautiful and compellingly heartfelt.

Darrel Ellis: Regeneration offers the first comprehensive, scholarly survey of Ellis’s practice and includes essays by the curators with added contributions by Makeda Djata Best, Allen Frame, Scott Homolka, Linda Owen and Kyle Croft.

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Weight 1076 g
Dimensions 23.3 x 26.8 cm
Publisher name Skira Editore S.p.A
Publication date 5 April 2023
Number of pages 224
Format Hardback
Contributors Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa and Leslie Cozzi
Dimensions 23.3 x 26.8 cm
Weight 1076 g

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Antonio Sergio Bessa is chief curator emeritus at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. A scholar of concrete poetry, Bessa has organized several critically acclaimed exhibitions on themes related to text-based art, and has published essays on concrete poetry.

Leslie Cozzi is is the Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs at The Baltimore Museum of Art, where she is responsible for the museum's post-1900 collection of works on paper.

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