Shade, 30 x 40 x 2.5, 2015, $5000
Detail Image above
Breathe..., I can't, 30 x 40 x 2.5, 2015, $5000
Detail image above
These
paintings are part of and inspired by a large scale installation
called In
the Hood,
a socio political satire suggesting the right wing faction of the Tea
Party is the new KKK. The installation opened in Charlotte, North
Carolina in the fall of 2014 to cause a stir in state known for voter
suppression and other racially charged issues.
The exhibit invites the viewer
to cross over, to engage with one another as well as the work. Rapper
Common stated eloquently about the 2015 film
Selma about
an epic civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965
, “it awakened my humanity. “ This work invites us to do the same
but also look deep
inside at today's American racial divide as it rises in the 21st
century.
link for exhibition images:
http://willielittle.com/InTheHoodInstallation.htm
No
Tea, No Shade... Multimedia paintings
The
multimedia paintings use a graffiti inspired form of abstract
expressionism as it turns phrases of urban slang and responds to
words of hate. It flips Eric Garners' phrase--the victim who was
put in a choke hold by NYPD. And it artfully plays with the gay
urban slang shade
as
it can be used in clever ways to tell us like it is...
Urban
Dictionary definitions:
No
Tea No Shade A
phrase meaning: I'm not trying to come for you or offend you, but
this is what its really like.
All Tea No Shade
Tea is the meaning of gossip and shade is in the form of a diss.
Diss
A shortened version of "disrespect"
Why you be dissin' me?
wow, that's awesome!
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