SOLSTICE 2019 RAFFLE: Artist-Curated Boxes
Oakwood Arts invited renowned artists Rashid Johnson and Hank Willis Thomas to each curate the contents of a customized box for supporters of Oakwood Arts that were raffled off and revealed at SOLSTICE 2019. Congratulations to the lucky winners!
Rashid Johnson, photographed by Hank Willis Thomas
R A S H I D J O H N S O N
Rashid Johnson's multimedia, interdisciplinary artistic practice engages with and extends "post-black" conceptual art. In February of this year, he was named one of the most influential African-American artists working today by Artsy. Viewers have likely seen Rashid Johnson's work at the VCU ICA, where his site-specific "Monument" installation continues to occupy the main gallery through June 19. Rashid's carefully curated box is to be raffled off and announced at SOLSTICE 2019.
Rashid’s Box Included
“Bamboozled” by Spike Lee (VHS)
“Native Son” by Richard Wright, Library facsimile of the 1940 1st edition (hardcover)
“Dutchman” by Leroi Jones, 1967 reprint (soft cover)
Rashid Johnson “Blocks”
Rashid Johnson “Message To Our Folks”
Hank Willis Thomas, courtesy of Hank Willis Thomas Studio
H A N K W I L L I S T H O M A S
Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist whose work examines the connections between black culture, and commodity culture. Thomas is the recipient of a Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and AGO fellowships (among others), has had a solo show at the Chrysler Museum in recent years, and the first major survey of his work will open at the Portland Museum of Art in fall of 2019. Hank's carefully curated box is to be raffled off and announced at SOLSTICE 2019.
Hanks Box Included
“Passage Strange: The Movie” by Spike Lee (DVD)
“Life + Debt” by Stephanie Black (DVD)
“They Live” by John Carpenter (DVD)
“Black Is…Black Ain’t” by Marlon Riggs (DVD)
“Rappin’ Black in a White World” by The Watts Prophets (LP)
“No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies” by Naomi Klein (hardcover)
“Rich and Poor: Photographs” by Jim Goldberg (soft cover)
“The Autobiography of Malcolm X” as told to Alex Haley (paperback)
“Timeless: Photographs by Kamoinge” 2015 (hardcover)
“The Price of the Ticket: Collected Notification, 1948 -1985” by James Baldwin (hardcover)