The work itself is of seven African women, drawn exaggerated with great gesture and an almost comedic rendering, using the individual afro sporting faces that he based most of the show off of. Each woman is a seeming stereotype of an african woman-curvacious, sassy, bending forward with backs out, hips and lips large. They immediately recalled Lisa Yuskavage, pushing it a step conceptually forward by commenting not just on the male gaze toward women, but on society as a whole's gaze toward African women.
The drawings are so indicative of his work. The skill level is simultaneously high and low brow, clean and deserving of the light of a well lit gallery, while child-like. Even in their childlike nature of the drawings, there reads an ironic disdain from an insider looking out. The laugh of an intellectual who is playing a long with society's game only to show how stupid it is.
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