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Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997: an American artist's work

Creator
Contributor
Issued
  • 1992/2002
Description
  • Includes the catalog of an exhibition held at the Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, June-Aug., 1997, the Austin Museum of Art, Sept.-Dec. 1997, and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Jan.-Mar., 1998. Also includes collection of color illustrations
  • Includes artist's biography
  • Includes bibliographical references
  • Title from exhibition catalog
  • Penny glued to back cover of exposition catalogue above artist's name. Introduction by Spike Lee, essay by Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, and an interview with the artist by Don Bacigalupi and Marilyn Kern-Foxworth. Includes bibliographical references. "Michael Ray Charles is a painter whose carefully crafted and faux-aged canvases and works on paper draw attention to race relations historically and in contemporary society. Borrowing pop culture images of characters such as Sambo, Buckwheat, and Aunt Jemima, Charles uses them ironically to comment on racial issues. His concerns range from how tobacco and liquor companies target marketing to minorities to the depiction of African Americans in the entertainment and sports industries to concepts of all-American (i.e., white) beauty. This book is the catalog of the first major solo exhibition of Charles' work, staged by Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. It contains a broad range of color images of paintings and works on paper. In addition to the catalog entries, the book contains an interview between exhibit curator Don Bacigalupi, catalog essayist Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, and artist Michael Ray Charles, in which the artist discusses and interprets his work. An essay by writer and cultural historian Marilyn Kern-Foxworth situates Charles' work within contemporary African American culture."
Mode of Issuance
  • Mass produced
  • monographs
Form of Work
Subject
Work Type
Technique
  • Stamping
  • Stapled binding
  • Photocopying
Measurements
  • 63 cm
Identifier
  • Char_Mich_01
Item Locator
  • xx N7433.4.C43 M53 1997
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Conversion
  • Photographed with a Canon 30d with a 24-105 IS L lens in Raw file format. In Photoshop CS3, edited for color and contrast using layers and curves adjustments and saved out as a tiff file.
Modified
  • 08/08/2023
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

Artistsʼ Books at the University of Oregon Libraries, University of Oregon. "Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997: an American artist's work" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2025-04-25. https://oregondigital.org/concern/images/df70bs66m

Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Charles, Michael Ray, 1967- http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/CharlesMichaelRay1967
2 Kern-Foxworth, Marilyn http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93093728
3 Bacigalupi, Don http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96016464
4 Lee, Spike http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86129800
5 catalogue http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300026059
6 African Americans in art--Exhibitions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009113932
7 Charles, Michael Ray, 1967- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97074836
8 notebooks http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264354
9 book objects http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300190463
10 folded books http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300200572
11 University of Oregon. Design Library http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017087491
12 Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50058700
13 Houston >> Fort Bend/Harris/Montgomery Counties >> Texas >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/4699066/
14 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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