Noel W Anderson: Heavy is the Crown
October 1, 2021 to January 17, 2022 Jepson CenterNoel W Anderson: Heavy is the Crown considers Black experience and its legacies between the temporal brackets of two “kings”–1963 when Martin Luther King Jr. presented his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech and 1992, the brutal beating of Rodney King and his subsequent plea “Can we all just get along…?” The printed works, tapestries, and paperworks on view in the exhibition utilize found imagery from various media and archives that are reprocessed by Anderson through assorted means of distortion and manipulation to collectively expose the haunting relationship of black masculine (mis)representation to structures of power.
About the Artist:
Noel W Anderson (American, B. 1981) received an MFA from Indiana University in Printmaking and an MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. He is also Area Head of Printmaking in NYU’s Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions. In 2018, Noel was awarded the NYFA artist fellowship grant and the prestigious Jerome Prize. His solo exhibition Blak Origin Moment debuted at the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati) in February 2017 and travelled to the Hunter Museum of American Art in October 2019. His first monograph, Blak Origin Moment, was also recently published.
Noel W Anderson: Heavy is the Crown is part of Telfair Museums’ Legacy of Slavery in Savannah Initiative, a multiyear project which engages local Savannahians, artist, scholars, and activists to consider how the legacies of slavery still manifest in our city. This exhibition is organized by Telfair Museums and curated by Erin Dunn, associate curator of modern and contemporary art.
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Check the Skin, 2017; altered Ebony; courtesy of the artist
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RIOT, 2015-2021; Bleach, dye, laser cut leather, star fish on distressed, stretched tapestry; courtesy of the artist
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sly wink, 2010; altered Ebony; courtesy of the artist
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Untitled, 2019; distressed tapestry; Telfair Museums, museum purchase with funds provided by the Jack W. Lindsay Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2020.20
Annual exhibition support provided by Director’s Circle Council Members:
| Bob Faircloth Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Dale C. Critz, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dale C. Critz, Sr. Alice and Bob Jepson Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Kleisner Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Levy Mr. and Mrs. Angus C. Littlejohn Wilson and Linda Fisk Morris Dave and Sylvaine Neises Thomas V. and Susan G. Reilly Cathy and Philip Solomons Pamela L. and Peter S. Voss Don and Cindy Waters Ms. Susan Willetts and Mr. Alan K. Pritz
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Gloria and Durwood Almkuist Leda Chong and Kevin Dewalt Lindsay and Brent Harlander Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Haynes III Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hinnant Mr. and MRs. Doug Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Myron Kaminsky Kelley and Josh Keller Mrs. Robert O. Levitt Linda and Tom McWhorter Mr. and Mrs. J. Herbert Ogden, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David E. Paddison Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rabinowitz Ms. Swann Seiler Randall and Valerie Stolt |
