Who's Afraid to Listen to Red, Black and Green?

Kevin Beasley

Kevin Beasley works across a variety of media including sculpture, installation, sound, and video. The material aspects of his practice are rooted in the use of found objects (most often clothing) that convey intimate personal and cultural histories, and in highly process-oriented, malleable materials including resin and polyurethane. Who’s Afraid to Listen to Red, Black, and Green?, a trio of acoustic mirrors in the iconic colors of the African-American flag, transforms the space it inhabits, redefining its social purpose by providing opportunities for its audience to have an active relationships to space, sound, and the presence of the physical body of the viewer.

Kevin Beasley works across a variety of media including sculpture, installation, sound, and video. The material aspects of his practice are rooted in the use of found objects (most often clothing) that convey intimate personal and cultural histories, and in highly process-oriented, malleable materials including resin and polyurethane. Who’s Afraid to Listen to Red, Black, and Green?, a trio of acoustic mirrors in the iconic colors of the African-American flag, transforms the space it inhabits, redefining its social purpose by providing opportunities for its audience to have an active relationships to space, sound, and the presence of the physical body of the viewer.

Dom Pérignon vineyards from the sky
Dom Pérignon vineyards from the sky
Vine leaf
Vine leaf

Kevin Beasley works across a variety of media including sculpture, installation, sound, and video. The material aspects of his practice are rooted in the use of found objects (most often clothing) that convey intimate personal and cultural histories, and in highly process-oriented, malleable materials including resin and polyurethane. Who’s Afraid to Listen to Red, Black, and Green?, a trio of acoustic mirrors in the iconic colors of the African-American flag, transforms the space it inhabits, redefining its social purpose by providing opportunities for its audience to have an active relationships to space, sound, and the presence of the physical body of the viewer.

Dom Pérignon vineyards from the sky
Vine leaf

Kevin Beasley

Who's Afraid to Listen to Red, Black and Green?,

2016

Crystal clear resin, steel, paint, t-shirts, housedresses, miscellaneous apparel

Crystal clear resin, steel, paint, t-shirts, housedresses, miscellaneous apparel

96 x 100 x 32 inches

Exhibition

there is this We

Site

Haggerty Museum of Art

Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York.

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