Knot
Rashaad Newsome
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Object Label
KNOT combines many of the touchstones of Rashaad Newsome’s multidisciplinary practice: spinning decorative jewelry, lavish Gothic architecture, Black ballroom dancing, mathematical knot theories, and a frenetic energy that emerges from the extraordinary dancers and vocalists, as well as the artist’s surrealistic digital collaging techniques. Commissioned for the Brooklyn Museum’s 2014–15 exhibition Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, the video heralds the legacy and longevity of Vogue Fem dance’s Black, Latinx, queer, and trans originators and innovators.
Caption
Rashaad Newsome (American, born 1979). Knot, 2014. Video installation: video, color and sound. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist and De Buck Gallery, 2018.49. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Knot
Date
2014
Medium
Video installation: video, color and sound
Classification
Credit Line
Gift of the artist and De Buck Gallery
Accession Number
2018.49
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