Raphaela Platow is the Alice and Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator of the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. Lowery Stokes Sims is a dedicated advocate for diversity and inclusion in the art world. She is an independant curator after working for the Museum of Arts and Design, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matthew Weseley is an independant art historian. He is currently working on an academic monograph on the work of Robert Colescott.
"Art and Race Matters offers a generous introduction to an
understudied artist and will likely launch a new era of interest in
Colescott's life and work. Long described as laying the groundwork
for contemporary art stars like Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas,
Kara Walker, and Michael Ray Charles, Colescott was one of the
earliest artists to provoke controversy for his use of Black
stereotypes and so-called "negative imagery." Paging through the
illustrations of the book, one is struck by the abundance of
insight, research, wit, and complexity in Colescott's images. The
density of his paintings, and the effort and learning it takes to
unravel them, offers a stark contrast to our current environment of
political pronouncements in 140 characters or less. . . .The
work does not offer easy solutions or slogans and is almost never
reassuring, but it pushes us to ask hard questions, feel
uncomfortable, and laugh at ourselves along the way." -Jessi
DiTillio, College Art Association Review
"Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is
accompanied by a fully illustrated 252-page catalogue published by
Rizzoli Electa. Featuring the contributions of more than ten
curators and writers, including a major essay by Sims, and a
selection of writings by the artist himself, the publication is the
most comprehensive volume devoted to the life and work of Colescott
to date." -FORBES
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