The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) and Yale Peabody Museum together present Ken Gonzales-Day: Composition in Black and Brown, a two-part public art project emerging from the artist’s engagement with the collections.
Composition in Black and Brown I
Composition in Black and Brown I is a billboard on view from August to October, 2024 on Interstate 95 North in West Haven, Connecticut.
Composition in Black and Brown II
Composition in Black and Brown II is a site-specific vinyl artwork on view from August to December 2024 in the windows of the Lower Court of the YCBA, adjacent to the courtyard of Harvest Wine Bar and Restaurant at 1104 Chapel Street in New Haven.
Martina and Ken in front of artworkIn-Person Program
Artists in Conversation: Ken Gonzales-Day
Thursday, September 12, 4–5 pm, reception to follow
Please join us for Ken Gonzales-Day in conversation with Martina Droth, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Yale Center for British Art. Together, they will discuss the origins of Gonzales-Day’s project Composition in Brown and Black, for which he photographed works in the collections of the YCBA and the Yale Peabody Museum in order to prompt questions about the historical constructions of race and the limits of representation.
To learn more about Bust of a Man.
To learn more about Stone Statue of Young Man.
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Ken Gonzales-Day, Composition in Black and Brown I (foreground: Yale Center for British Art, Francis Harwood, “Bust of a Man,” and Yale Peabody Museum, Central Mexico, “Young Man”; background, all Yale Center for British Art: William Brodie, “Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate”; John Gibson, “Aurora”; Joseph Nollekens, “Charles James Fox,” “Charlotte, fourth Duchess of Richmond,” and “Portrait of a Man, Probably Lord Granville Leveson-Gower”; John Nost III, “George III”; and Louis François Roubiliac, “Alexander Pope”), 2024, billboard, 14 × 28 feet © 2024 Ken Gonzales-Day, courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles