Global living Artists Contemporary Art Auction
Lot 300:
Oil on found boat door. The door was sourced whilst on a trip to rural Sussex. I found it in a skip whilst out walking.The painting is portrait of a girl looking surrean but proudly wearing her traditional hair. The painting is a le homage to black women and the celebration of natural hair and traditional hairstyles. A black woman is 80% more likely than a white woman to change her natural hair to meet social norms or expectations at work. Recent efforts to ban hair discrimination have amplified the struggle for women of colour and their natural hair, particularly in the workplace. Senator Cory Booker has proposed the first bill in history to ban hair discrimination at the federal level.?Implicit and explicit biases against natural hair are deeply ingrained in workplace norms and society at large. This is a violation of our civil rights, and it happens every day for black people across the country, ? said Senator Booker.(Cache McClay, BBC News, Washington 13.12.2019) ARTIST BIO Stephen Anthony Davids is a fine artist, known primarily for making portraits using paint or ink on rare types of paper and found objects.His work provides observations of social history ? rooted in present day London and paralleled with other cultures and eras ? addressing questions about inclusion and equality, in relation to race, gender and socio-economic status. Solitary figures are Davids? primary subject, and his focus is on the face, especially the eyes as a vehicle for communication and expression. His portraits are immediate, personal expressions, the result of a compulsion to make work in the moment. They are also cumulative, amounting to an interrelated body of work that is like an archive: an accretion of artistic, cultural and historical material manifest in paintings on wood, canvas, paper and found objects. The artist?s observation and celebration of quotidien objects is found in his reverence for folk art as well as artists who successfully transcended barriers between the contemporary art establishment and art in daily life in order to impact on society more broadly.
Condition: Good Condition, as in images
Dimensions: 42 x 96 cm
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