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Rodney Ewing
Homecoming, 2016
Estimated Value: $3,000
Photo silkscreen with dry pigment on watercolor paper
29 x 41 inches
Unique
Signed, front
Donated by the artist.
This work was created for an exhibit called “Untethered: Stories from the Fillmore." All the work in the exhibit explored the history of displacement in the Fillmore/Western Addition areas of San Francisco by intersecting the visual histories of both Japanese- and African- American people who were moved from the neighborhood. This piece features young Japanese-American women practicing cheerleading while they are being incarcerated in an internment camp. The work is layered with their image and a schematic of an internment camp.
About the Artist:
Rodney Ewing
San Francisco, CA. Visual Artist. Ewing’s drawings, installations, and mixed media works focus on his need to intersect body and place, memory and fact to re-examine human histories, cultural conditions, and events. With his work he is pursuing a narrative that requires us to be present and intimate. His work has been exhibited at Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; and in San Francisco, CA at Root Division, Jack Fischer Gallery, Museum of the African Diaspora, Nancy Toomey Fine Art, Alter Space Gallery, Southern Exposure Gallery, and Ictus Projects. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Recology and the De Young Museum of Fine Arts both in San Francisco, as well as Djerassi in Woodside, California, Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, California, and Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, Nebraska. Ewing received his BFA in Printmaking from Louisiana State University and his MFA in Printmaking West Virginia University.
Website: rodneyewing.com
Instagram: @ledette
