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| Deborah Grant,
God’s Voice in The Midnight Hours
(detail), 2013, Oil, acrylic, enamel, paper, Arches W.C.
paper, linen, and wood on 24 birch panels, 18 x 4 x 2 inches (45.7 x
10.2 x 5 cm) each. All works courtesy of the artist and Steve Turner
Contemporary, Los Angeles. |
Christ You
Know It Ain’t Easy!!
January 25 – February 28, 2014
35 Wooster
Street
New York,
NY
The
Drawing Center presents Deborah Grant: Christ You Know It Ain't Easy!!,
an installation that combines painting, drawing, and collage to recount the
fictional meeting between African-American folk artist Mary A. Bell and
renowned modernist painter Henri Matisse. For Christ You Know It Ain't
Easy!!, which takes its title from the Lennon/McCartney song “The Ballad Of
John and Yoko,” Grant spent over two years researching primary documents
including Mary Bell’s drawing and letters. The exhibition will occupy the
Drawing Room and will include a large-scale work on four birch panels (Crowning
The Lion and The Lamb), as well as 24 smaller birch panels (God’s Voice
in The Midnight Hours), two shaped panels (Obedient Unto Death, Even
Death On A Cross and Hosanna To The Son Of David), and a series of
five drawings (Easter's Best). This is Grant’s first solo museum show
in New York.
Christ You Know It Ain’t Easy!! is the latest installment in Grant’s
ongoing series Random Select in which she interweaves historical
accounts and personal experiences with references to contemporary political and
social issues. Grant culls material from a variety of sources including
magazine photographs, comic books, and published texts, which she masterfully
assembles via a signature drawing method involving silhouetted figures and
calligraphic marks and lines to create highly personal, non-linear narratives
that investigate politics, race, and cultural identity.
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