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Indepth Arts News: "Lezley Saar: Africans, Rap Thugs-n-Dimes" 2000-09-09 until 2000-11-05 Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, OH, USA
Saar's CAC exhibition includes up to 15 of her most recent works - a series of six portraits of individuals from African tribes as well as portraits of popular rap artists painted onto a collage of pop music albums from the 1950s and '60s.
Presented in decorative gilded frames and painted on canvases of African fabrics, members of the Kanuri, Zulu and Fulani tribes, as well as others, are depicted in much the same way as formal European portraits of the 18th and 19th century.
In contrast to the formal portraits, Saar pays her respects to contemporary rap musicians - Cleveland quartet Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Juvenile, Gansta Boo, the Ghetto Twiinz, Yuk Mouth and Snoop Dogg - by painting their likenesses on grids of album covers. Rap is a vibrant cultural phenomenon, explains Saar, I embrace the energy, anger and ridiculousness of the music.
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