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Portland Art Museum: Syrup on Watermelon, Black Women Artists (museum tour) [1]
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Date: 2023-04-19
According to PAM:
It contains two bodies of work that address and reframe specific narratives of American culture created upon African American people—the stereotypes and its commercialization exploiting Black people and culture using the images of the watermelon and Aunt Jemima as markers. Miller’s installation uses these objects as a vehicle to address this digestion and consumption with an emphasis on Black women.
According to Christine Miller:
“Appropriation is not admiration, and exploitation is not love. Syrup on Watermelon aims to hold up mirrors to false imposed identities and challenges the audience to look at the unsettling nature of these narratives.”
Watermelon Portraits
This work consists of 31 watercolors depicting cut-up and eaten watermelons in varying stages of consumption. According to Christine Miller:
“Watermelon was one of the first cash crops for previously enslaved individuals. This series is to reclaim the sense of shame associated with the fruit along with taking the narrative back on our history.”
Sweet
The three colors of the Pan African flag—red, black, and green—represent Black pride and the advocacy of union of all the people across the diaspora.
Dear Aunt Jem
This is a collaboration between Miller and three other Black women designers, Danielle McCoy, Julia Bond, and Jackie Brown. According to the display:
“The Americana pattern of the ubiquitous chceckerboard in red and white creates an accent wall tying the collaboration around the theme of Aunt Jemima as a symbol of Black women and their consumption through mothering, commerce, and in American culture at-large.”
More Portland Art Museum exhibits
Portland Art Museum: Isaka Shamsud-Din, Black artist (museum tour)
Museums 101: Constructing African-American Identity (Photo Diary)
Portland Art Museum: Frida Kahlo, mestiza artist (museum tour)
Portland Art Museum: Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism (museum tour)
Portland Art Museum: Mexican Modernism (museum tour)
Portland Art Museum: Portaiture (museum tour)
Portland Art Museum: Some sculptures (photo diary)
Portland Art Museum: Some early twentieth-century art (museum tour)
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