YUSUF LATEEF

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Ernest Cole     New York City     c.1971

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The clear and ever present truth of matter, that it doesn’t matter til you make it matter and even then you still can't see me.

It is the mechanics of belief. What we take apart and what we glue together. It is the reflection of the matter. Language and interpretation based on monosodium glutamate. Alginate preoccupation with the details and failing to recognize the elephant in the sun room. Echoes of cackling youth on shrooms throwing rocks at parking meters. Prayer rugs frayed revealing the threaded tapestry beneath. Equilateral crosses with cardboard messages of hope and despair and MLK church fans. 

Stages of belief / visual art principles 

The Atheist / Line

The Conversion / Value 

The Neophyte / Color

The Crucifixion / Form

The Resurrection / Texture 

The Believer / Meaning 

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Belief in the material,

Belief in making,

Belief in the act of making and the communication of needs

The lack of resources

The abundance of drive in spite of

Anger issues

Imposter syndrome

Middle class outcast

Black power / white wife

Mixed child 

Muslim / Jew / Christian 

Line - Logic 

Value - Relationship

Form - Purpose 

Texture - Resolve

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Black Painter -2015/16...

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e o u i n

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"A View From Above " - ( a collaborative mural ) Yusuf Lateef / Old West End Neighborhood Initiative / Art Corner Toledo / Neighbor works / Collingwood Arts Center.

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“Your Welcome” 

Performance / Installation

2015

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2015 - “Wake Up and Fly Away” - Multi-media Collage- commissioned by The Arts Commission of Toledo for Young Artists At Work- Facilitated by radiantcityarts.org

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Untitled- 2015

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juxta....

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EastsideSpacevandels-----BGSU/YusufLateef

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Unsolved Mysteries

Yusuf Lateef - 201......

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clevelandart.org

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“ We, the willing......”

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