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| Lynching in the West | |
Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. This book reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice, chronicling over 350 instances of lynching that occurred in the state of California between 1850 and 1935. An artist and writer, Ken Gonzales-Day began this study by photographing lynch sites in order to document the absences and empty spaces that are emblematic of the forgotten history of lynching in the West. Drawing on newspaper articles, periodicals, court records, historical photographs, and souvenir postcards, he attempted to reconstruct the circumstances surrounding the lynchings that had occurred in the spaces he was photographing. The result is an unprecedented textual and visual record of a largely unacknowledged manifestation of racial violence in the United States. Including sixteen color illustrations, Lynching in the West juxtaposes Gonzales-Day's evocative contemporary photographs of lynch sites with dozens of historical images. Click Here to order.
LACMA is pleased to present Ken Gonzales-Day's work in the exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement. Chicano art, traditionally described as work created by Americans of Mexican descent, was established as a politically and culturally inspired movement during the counterculture revolutions of the late 60s and early 70s. The exhibition includes approximately 125 works in all media, including painting, sculpture, installation, conceptual, video, performance art, and intermedia works.
Exile of the Imaginary: Politics Aesthetics Love This collection of art-historic, psychoanalytic and linguistic essays ponders the relationship between post-conceptual art practice and the legacy of Roland Barthes's famed A Lover's Discourse: Fragments--specifically, Barthes's assertion that love can be a critical "medium" in politically turbulent times. With select artworks. Click HERE to order the book of the exhibition Exhile of the Imaginary, presented by the Generali Foundation, Vienna.
Whiteness: A Wayward Construction: Whiteness, A Wayward Construction is an exhibition catalogue on the work of twenty-eight contemporary individual artists and collaborative teams employing various media who explore representations of whiteness in the United States. The selection of artists was not restricted to whites but includes artists of various ethnicities. The exhibition was about the image of whiteness in the public imagination and in contemporary art. The publication includes essays by Tyler Stallings, Amelia Jones, David Roediger, and Ken Gonzales-Day. Click HERE to order the book of the exhibition Whiteness: A Wayward Construction, presented by the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach.
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