Lithograph on frosted mylar and Hahnemühle with frottage on chine collé
39 x 29.5 in.
Edition Variable 6
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rigorously interdisciplinary and a self-named “learner,” Kameelah Janan Rasheed often makes work in the form of immersive installations stuffed with scraps of text that she finds or writes. Taking over surfaces like the facade of the Brooklyn Museum, a massive digital billboard in Times Square, or the walls and crevices of a gallery in Berlin, the artist makes architectural elements from poetic language, using her fine- tuned eye for typeface, color contrasts, and scale to bring viewers into a physically active reading experience.
Rasheed is invested in Black storytelling technologies that ask us to consider ways of [un]learning that are interdisciplinary, interspecies, and interstellar. She is the author of two artist’s books, An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions, 2019) and No New Theories (Printed Matter, 2019). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and she is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. Still working full-time in curriculum development, Rasheed intertwines her educational impulses with her artistic production, pairing exhibitions and book publishing with public lectures, workbooks, and on-site workshops. Kameelah Janan Rasheed is from East Palo Alto, California, and based in Brooklyn, New York.
Two solo presentations include Art Institute of Chicago Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Unsewn Time Aug 25, 2023–Jan 8, 2024; in the coherence, we weep KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany through January 7, 2024.
