Explore the stacks! Our staff recommendation for this month is “Howardena Pindell: What remains to be seen,” an exhibition catalog for Pindell’s first major traveling survey on five decades of her work, now on view at the Rose Museum at Brandeis University. It is the last stop of this traveling exhibit. The second image shows still images from her video piece entitled “Free, white and 21,” which Pindell made eight months after a near fatal car accident. She plays two characters—as herself telling stories about her experiences with racism and as a white woman wearing a mask, responding to those experiences by saying things like, “I have never had experiences like that. But, of course, I am free, white, and 21.”
Pindell, now at age 74, continues to teach at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She was a cofounder of a feminist gallery A.I.R. in New York in the late 1970s, and was one of the first black curators at the Museum of Modern Art. Pindell’s work utilizes various media such as collage, painting, drawing, and video, and explores issues of racism, feminism, slavery, homelessness, and AIDS. Learn more about her work on her website.
Howardena Pindell : what remains to be seen edited by Naomi Beckwith and Valerie Cassel Oliver. Published: Chicago, IL : Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ; Munich ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2018. 270 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 24-May 20, 201, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, August 25-November 25, 2018, and The Rose Art Museum, January 24-June 16, 2019. 2018 HOLLIS number: 990153072040203941
Free, white and 21 Pindell, Howardena, 1943-, American [artist] 1980 Video in which the artist describes her experiences of racial discrimination. Addressing the audience, she gradually transforms herself into white face after wrapping her face in white gauze. HOLLIS Number: olvwork159967
