Close Looks: Shanequa Gay - Ackland Art Mm

Contents:

• SHANEQUA GAY
• HOMETOWN PRI AND SORROW OVERLAP SHANEQUA GAY’S ARTWORK
• CLOSE LOOKS: "HOLDG SPACE FOR NOBILY: A MEMORIAL FOR BREONNA TAYLOR" BY SHANEQUA GAY
• SHANEQUA GAY’S NEW EXHIB SPIRED BY HER ANCTORS AND SOUTHERN BLACK TRADNS
• SHANEQUA GAY: STANDG WH ZEBRAS
• SHANEQUA GAY NAMED ARTIST--RINCE AT OGLETHORPE UNIVERSY
• ART + ARTISTS
• SHANEQUA GAY: THOUGHT AND MEMORY
• OGLETHORPE MM BUTS NEW WORK OM ACCLAIMED ARTIST SHANEQUA GAY
• SHANEQUA GAY PROUD, THRILLED BY VATN TO EXHIB AT PRTIG VENICE BIENNALE

SHANEQUA GAY

Shanequa Gay, O to Kathryn Johnston, Performance, 933 Neal Street, 2016.

​Shanequa Gay. wh Karen Comer LoweShanequa Gay, 2019, Artist Stud.

HOMETOWN PRI AND SORROW OVERLAP SHANEQUA GAY’S ARTWORK

Photo Courty of Harold DanielsShanequa Gay is a multidisciplary artist workg photography, patg and stallatn.

CLOSE LOOKS: "HOLDG SPACE FOR NOBILY: A MEMORIAL FOR BREONNA TAYLOR" BY SHANEQUA GAY

Shanequa Gay recently signed the ver of SCAD’s annual amic talog.

Shanequa Gay, SummongKaren Comer Lowe: How did you get started as an artist? Shanequa Gay: Around 2005/2006, a iend challenged me to stop beg a craft artist.

SHANEQUA GAY’S NEW EXHIB SPIRED BY HER ANCTORS AND SOUTHERN BLACK TRADNS

Shanequa Gay, the unnameable, unspeakable dive ascensn 2019, stallatn: Zuckerman Mm of Art, Kennaw, GeiaKCL: When did you beg creatg the art we know you for now?

Shanequa Gay, It's happeng Aga, KCL: You have been creatg ephemeral wall patgs as part of your practice. Shanequa Gay, I Come As Us, 2018, Acrylic / Four Drs and Paper Sculpture, 10 x 54 feet stallatn: Sumter County Art GalleryKCL: Do you have any tablished relatnships wh galleri? Shanequa Gay, Ascendg Devouts, 2019, tton pattern sign, marcrame hair weave, rdboard mask, 10 feet height stallatn The Temporary, Atlanta, GeiaKCL: Do you have your work mm llectns?

SHANEQUA GAY: STANDG WH ZEBRAS

Shanequa Gay, i-she-atn, 2019, Installatn Chasta Arts Center KCL: What one piece of advice would you give to anyone who is nsirg beg a visual artist?

Shanequa Gay, Heaven's GateKCL: You recently had your work published Glamour magaze as the backdrop to the portra of Mayor Bottoms; do this exposure affect your practice differently than a gallery or mm show? Shanequa Gay, an Atlanta native, received her BA Patg om The Savannah College of Art and Dignand an MFA at Geia State Universy. Gay’s work evaluat place, tradn, storytellg, and subject matter to velop imagative dialogu and alternative strategi for self-imagg.

SHANEQUA GAY NAMED ARTIST--RINCE AT OGLETHORPE UNIVERSY

Atlanta-born Shanequa Gay (b.

Gay’s acplishments clu selectn for Off the Wall, a cy-wi Civil Rights and Social Jtice Mural iative led by the Atlanta Super Bowl Host Commtee (2019). Gay has exhibed her work the Uned Stat, Japan, and South Ai and will participate the European Cultural Centre’s exhibn wh the ntext of the 59th Venice Biennale 2022, Gay is a visg Profsor at Atlanta’s Spelman College.

ART + ARTISTS

Atlanta artist Shanequa Gay, 44, serv a look no matter what the ocsn. Gay leads wh an unapologetic sweetns rooted a fay life found, she says, “to help, love and thk about others.

”Hometown joy and heartbreakNo homegrown artist has ever celebrated the quirks, the culture, the strong ve of Black creativy nng through the cy terms so enarg mak your cht puff wh “The Betiful Tale of Atlannahland” llag, featured a show at Jackson Fe Art last year, are exhib A Gay’s bone-ep Atlanta llaged works are a mix of var media cludg photography, pat and waterlor.

And she often Photoshop and other graphic sign tools to create lorful fantasias that blur the le between realy and “Atlannahland” hybrids feature ltle Black girls wearg “crowns” of Atlanta adoratn ftooned wh what Gay lls “the joys of my childhood”: Rich’s Pk Pig, Now and Later ndi, Lik-m-aid Fun Dip and Trappey’s hot edn, tled “Reverg Maynard, ” sold out at Jackson Fe Art and grew her llector base to clu Dallas At, alongsi prev llectors Samuel L.

SHANEQUA GAY: THOUGHT AND MEMORY

Jackson, Michelle Obama, Los Angel ntemporary art llector Arthur Lewis, actor Charl Michael Davis and Elton “Atlannahland, ” Gay b playful imagery spired by her childhood wh elements rooted Ain Amerin and Ain inty.

OGLETHORPE MM BUTS NEW WORK OM ACCLAIMED ARTIST SHANEQUA GAY

“When I me up wh this Atlannahland, I began to thk about what I nsir magil about the cy, ” says Gay, a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Dign wh an MFA om Geia State she’s not the type to jt herald her Atlannahland love.

Gay superimposed the ey of the iends and fai of Atlanta child murr victims and thor Jam Baldw, who wrote extensively about the murrs, onto her seri me to her while watchg children play Perkerson Park several years ago and thkg about their absolute glee, which ntrasted so sharply wh the danger she felt lurkg around the margs of her childhood.

SHANEQUA GAY PROUD, THRILLED BY VATN TO EXHIB AT PRTIG VENICE BIENNALE

“There were people burstg to tears, ” says Co-op Art Atlanta curator Courtney Bombeck, who prented the llag a recent pop-up exhibn at the Buckhead menswear shop Maison another tribute to the cy of her birth, the 2019 Hammonds Hoe exhibn “L Whout Sherman: A Love Letter to the Wt End, ” Gay honored her granny’s Oak Street stompg nods to the pastoral tradn of toile and s quat visn of untry life, Gay replaced shepherds and kmaids wh the men and women of the Wt End — the Spelman unrgrads, the pie-sellg Natn of Islam, lol hero like artist Sue Ross and Andrew Young. Qutng power imbalanceGay was a Grady baby.

”After they divorced when Gay was 18, her mother married a pastor and earned a doctorate divy.