{"id":26599,"date":"2018-10-12T08:47:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T07:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/?post_type=magazines&#038;p=26599"},"modified":"2018-10-24T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:19:32","slug":"decoding-black-materiality","status":"publish","type":"magazines","link":"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/fr\/magazines\/decoding-black-materiality\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoding Black Materiality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenkins-Johnson<\/a> and David Shrobe\u2019s discerning curation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com\/exhibitions\/david-shrobe-somewhere-in-between\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Somewhere in Between<\/em><\/a> begins with the brilliant placing of <em>Portal <\/em>(2017). The stand-out abstraction of portions of furniture, paper and fabric eliding together in a maelstrom of noisy clashes is placed in the entrance to her downtown San Francisco art space.<\/p>\n<p>David Shrobe\u2019s interest in everyday objects that he encounters in his New York neighborhood is a way of initiating a discourse on re-assembling and decoding Black materiality. The portraits he builds are a nod to the work of Betye Saar and Noah Purifoy, both artists who grew out of the 1960\u2019s\/70\u2019s LA art movement. His work, however, brings his East Coast perspective to the wall. In New York he is in a constant dance with his own practice as a painter, sculptor and mixed-media artist, using charcoal, oil, flocking and metallic paint as ways to reinterpret found materials from the city. In a brief conversation I had with Shrobe, he spoke about his process: \u00ab\u00a0Even when I\u2019m painting, I am working in a collage logic (\u2026) A lot of my images become hybridized, drawing from Black Diaspora and African cultures\u2014I am considering potential futures\u201d. His background in fashion and his knowledge of textiles has helped him move his practice towards a more playful approach to materiality.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26603\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shrobe-Adams-Express-2018-oil-charcoal-ink-and-mixed-media-on-paper-15.5-X-13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26603\" class=\"wp-image-26603 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shrobe-Adams-Express-2018-oil-charcoal-ink-and-mixed-media-on-paper-15.5-X-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1804\" srcset=\"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shrobe-Adams-Express-2018-oil-charcoal-ink-and-mixed-media-on-paper-15.5-X-13.jpg 1400w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shrobe-Adams-Express-2018-oil-charcoal-ink-and-mixed-media-on-paper-15.5-X-13-233x300.jpg 233w, 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http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shrobe-Adams-Express-2018-oil-charcoal-ink-and-mixed-media-on-paper-15.5-X-13-186x240.jpg 186w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shrobe-Adams-Express-2018-oil-charcoal-ink-and-mixed-media-on-paper-15.5-X-13-109x140.jpg 109w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shrobe-Adams-Express-2018-oil-charcoal-ink-and-mixed-media-on-paper-15.5-X-13-838x1080.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Shrobe, Adams Express, 2018, oil, charcoal, ink and mixed media on paper, 15.5 X 13. Courtesy of Jenkins Johnson Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the most engaging facets of Shrobe\u2019s current exhibition is its tenderness towards the subjects portrayed in each work. Pulling together materials that have previously been used in a domestic setting\u2014like fabric and furniture\u2014Shrobe is referencing artists like Saar or Lynda Benglis who have used assemblage and collage to critique the limitations experienced by underrepresented artists, specifically women. Consciously collecting, breaking, and re-instating the material into a new form, Shrobe is employing artistic gestures often seen in women\u2019s art strategies that are essential in exploring the terrain of subjectivity in everyday life. The portraits appear as almost cyborgian, constructs of <em>objets trouv\u00e9s<\/em> assembled in a way to confront the way we perceive human\/non-human (machine or animal) interaction, challenging the racialized ways of seeing the black and brown body as animalistic and the white body as neutral, or rather: normal.<\/p>\n<p>Shrobe works in a very intuitive way and his use of family heirlooms, both fabric and furniture, are integral parts to his practice. \u201cI work in the space where three generations of my family lived before me,\u201d he says. \u201cMy great aunt still gives me pieces of quilt blocks from a technique that has been passed down along generations. I work in a similar way to how the patchwork is constructed and arrive at a new narrative through the various juxtapositions of material\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The use of high lacquer on wood contrasted with the exposed grain tells us of a broken narrative in <em>Keeper of S<\/em><em>ecrets<\/em>, one of making good of a material created from neighborhood leftovers. The purple paint and black flocking are references to royalty and a reflection on 17th and 18th century portraiture as well as depictions of \u201cSaints, Knights and African nobility, often painted with haloes above their heads\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26601\" style=\"width: 1410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26601\" class=\"wp-image-26601 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie.jpg 1400w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-320x480.jpg 320w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-480x720.jpg 480w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-640x960.jpg 640w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-960x1440.jpg 960w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-1280x1920.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-167x250.jpg 167w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-121x181.jpg 121w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-90x135.jpg 90w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-157x236.jpg 157w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-313x470.jpg 313w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-147x220.jpg 147w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-73x110.jpg 73w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-81x122.jpg 81w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-1000x1500.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-900x1350.jpg 900w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-750x1125.jpg 750w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-600x900.jpg 600w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-500x750.jpg 500w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-400x600.jpg 400w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-300x450.jpg 300w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-240x360.jpg 240w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-140x210.jpg 140w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-160x240.jpg 160w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-93x140.jpg 93w, http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie-720x1080.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Shrobe, Night Vision, 2018. Courtesy of Jenkins Johnson Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shrobe is exploring how we navigate our worlds through a methodology of dislocation. And it is in this dislocation that he performs his style of making work from a series of manufactured objects that have previously lived in a specifically Black domestic setting. One of the strengths in his work lies in the autobiography and wider\u00a0biography of his local community\u00a0attached to certain pieces\u00a0like <em>Spoon Fed<\/em>, <em>Night Vision <\/em>and <em>Adams Express <\/em>(2018), but also in the gestures to human form that make us connect with the portraits and the subjects behind them more deeply. The politics that surface in <em>Knelt <\/em>are inspired by Colin Kaepernick. Shrobe uses his story to rethink what patriotism means in 2018, and he is \u201cchallenging the notions of what it means to belong to one\u2019s country, challenging ideas of nationalism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The smaller watercolor studies with their iridescent tonality and splashes of glitter have a heavenly appeal; compressed, subtle portraits of subjects in quietude. These works on paper are placed out of sight from the main gallery, a decision made by Jenkins-Johnson and Shrobe because of the height of the ceiling, creating a more intimate experience for the viewer. The works appear like a secret part of Shrobe\u2019s self and one is prompted to return to them again and again because they are such engaging moments of thoughtful and artistic precision and a possible portal into the mind of this astute and profound artist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com\/exhibitions\/david-shrobe-somewhere-in-between\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Shrobe: <em>Somewhere in Between<\/em><\/a> is on at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco until 27 October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Nan Collymore<\/strong> writes, programs art events and makes brass ornaments in Berkeley California. Born in London, she lives in the United States since 2006.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26600,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[5018,2603,1235],"magazine-type":[25],"class_list":["post-26599","magazines","type-magazines","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-david-shrobe","tag-jenkins-johnson-gallery","tag-nan-collymore","magazine-type-rezension"],"core_raw":{"post_title":"Decoding Black Materiality","post_content":"Karen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenkins-Johnson<\/a> and David Shrobe\u2019s discerning curation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com\/exhibitions\/david-shrobe-somewhere-in-between\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Somewhere in Between<\/em><\/a> begins with the brilliant placing of <em>Portal <\/em>(2017). The stand-out abstraction of portions of furniture, paper and fabric eliding together in a maelstrom of noisy clashes is placed in the entrance to her downtown San Francisco art space.\r\n\r\nDavid Shrobe\u2019s interest in everyday objects that he encounters in his New York neighborhood is a way of initiating a discourse on re-assembling and decoding Black materiality. The portraits he builds are a nod to the work of Betye Saar and Noah Purifoy, both artists who grew out of the 1960\u2019s\/70\u2019s LA art movement. His work, however, brings his East Coast perspective to the wall. In New York he is in a constant dance with his own practice as a painter, sculptor and mixed-media artist, using charcoal, oil, flocking and metallic paint as ways to reinterpret found materials from the city. In a brief conversation I had with Shrobe, he spoke about his process: \"Even when I\u2019m painting, I am working in a collage logic (\u2026) A lot of my images become hybridized, drawing from Black Diaspora and African cultures\u2014I am considering potential futures\u201d. His background in fashion and his knowledge of textiles has helped him move his practice towards a more playful approach to materiality.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_26603\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1400\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shrobe-Adams-Express-2018-oil-charcoal-ink-and-mixed-media-on-paper-15.5-X-13.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-26603 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Shrobe-Adams-Express-2018-oil-charcoal-ink-and-mixed-media-on-paper-15.5-X-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1804\" \/><\/a> David Shrobe, Adams Express, 2018, oil, charcoal, ink and mixed media on paper, 15.5 X 13. Courtesy of Jenkins Johnson Gallery[\/caption]\r\n\r\nOne of the most engaging facets of Shrobe\u2019s current exhibition is its tenderness towards the subjects portrayed in each work. Pulling together materials that have previously been used in a domestic setting\u2014like fabric and furniture\u2014Shrobe is referencing artists like Saar or Lynda Benglis who have used assemblage and collage to critique the limitations experienced by underrepresented artists, specifically women. Consciously collecting, breaking, and re-instating the material into a new form, Shrobe is employing artistic gestures often seen in women\u2019s art strategies that are essential in exploring the terrain of subjectivity in everyday life. The portraits appear as almost cyborgian, constructs of <em>objets trouv\u00e9s<\/em> assembled in a way to confront the way we perceive human\/non-human (machine or animal) interaction, challenging the racialized ways of seeing the black and brown body as animalistic and the white body as neutral, or rather: normal.\r\n\r\nShrobe works in a very intuitive way and his use of family heirlooms, both fabric and furniture, are integral parts to his practice. \u201cI work in the space where three generations of my family lived before me,\u201d he says. \u201cMy great aunt still gives me pieces of quilt blocks from a technique that has been passed down along generations. I work in a similar way to how the patchwork is constructed and arrive at a new narrative through the various juxtapositions of material\u201d.\r\n\r\nThe use of high lacquer on wood contrasted with the exposed grain tells us of a broken narrative in <em>Keeper of S<\/em><em>ecrets<\/em>, one of making good of a material created from neighborhood leftovers. The purple paint and black flocking are references to royalty and a reflection on 17th and 18th century portraiture as well as depictions of \u201cSaints, Knights and African nobility, often painted with haloes above their heads\u201d.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_26601\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1400\"]<a href=\"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-26601 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/3.230.254.106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/night-vision-Kopie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2100\" \/><\/a> David Shrobe, Night Vision, 2018. Courtesy of Jenkins Johnson Gallery.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nShrobe is exploring how we navigate our worlds through a methodology of dislocation. And it is in this dislocation that he performs his style of making work from a series of manufactured objects that have previously lived in a specifically Black domestic setting. One of the strengths in his work lies in the autobiography and wider\u00a0biography of his local community\u00a0attached to certain pieces\u00a0like <em>Spoon Fed<\/em>, <em>Night Vision <\/em>and <em>Adams Express <\/em>(2018), but also in the gestures to human form that make us connect with the portraits and the subjects behind them more deeply. The politics that surface in <em>Knelt <\/em>are inspired by Colin Kaepernick. Shrobe uses his story to rethink what patriotism means in 2018, and he is \u201cchallenging the notions of what it means to belong to one\u2019s country, challenging ideas of nationalism\u201d.\r\n\r\nThe smaller watercolor studies with their iridescent tonality and splashes of glitter have a heavenly appeal; compressed, subtle portraits of subjects in quietude. These works on paper are placed out of sight from the main gallery, a decision made by Jenkins-Johnson and Shrobe because of the height of the ceiling, creating a more intimate experience for the viewer. The works appear like a secret part of Shrobe\u2019s self and one is prompted to return to them again and again because they are such engaging moments of thoughtful and artistic precision and a possible portal into the mind of this astute and profound artist.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com\/exhibitions\/david-shrobe-somewhere-in-between\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Shrobe: <em>Somewhere in Between<\/em><\/a> is on at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco until 27 October 2018.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Nan Collymore<\/strong> writes, programs art events and makes brass ornaments in Berkeley California. Born in London, she lives in the United States since 2006.<\/em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","post_excerpt":""},"acf":{"video_url":null,"Dachzeile":"David Shrobe: Somewhere in Between","mag_subtitle":"David Shrobe is an artist\u2019s artist, he is garnering interest from fellow contemporaries, Ebony. G Patterson, Nina Abney Chanel and Nick Cave, with the latter two making recent purchases. His first solo show on the West Coast is being held at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco. In his exhibition Somewhere in Between he dissects objects that have previously lived in a specifically Black domestic setting and grants them new life .","mag_author":"Nan Collymore","mag_abstract":"David Shrobe is an artist\u2019s artist, he is garnering interest from fellow contemporaries, Ebony. G Patterson, Nina Abney Chanel and Nick Cave, with the latter two making recent purchases. His first solo show on the West Coast is being held at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco. 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