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Martin Luther King, Jr. // Birthing a Legacy
A black-and-white portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. deep in thought, brow furrowed. The background/foreground of the image is partially overlaid with the portrait and features stars and a graphic design of shades of gray, black, blue, and red. The…
Representative John Lewis
A memorial tribute portrait of Civil Rights activist John Lewis, as he looked later in life, within a brick arch on a building. The portrait is vivid in its hyperrealism, with tones of blue and green alongside the black-and-white. The background is a…
John Lewis, Civil Rights Activist
A black-and-white portrait of John Lewis as a young man, mid-speech, surrounded by a community of his peers.
John Lewis // Good Trouble
A black-and-white portrait of the late Congressman and Civil Rights activist John Lewis as a young man, his face intense in thought, wearing a white short sleeve shirt and dark tie. The background behind him is a wash of pale yellow with abstract…
Love Black Girls // Love Black Boys
Two all-black profiles face each other, the left feminized by lengthened eyelashes in comparison to that of the right. Both profiles feature a thick white outline, defining their curly hair. The text overlaying the left profile reads: "Love Black…
Black Lives Matter
On the gothic stone facade of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, a large yellow poster with a black border reads "BLACK LIVES MATTER" in fully-capitalized bold font.
George Floyd // Black Lives Matter
Two wheat-paste posters displayed side-by-side on power transformers. The poster to the left features a pop-art stylized image of George Floyd, while the poster to the right bears the fully-capitalized words "BLACK LIVES MATTER" in bold white…
Black Lives Built This COUNTRY
A white wall bears the sentence, divided into separate rows, as follows:
"Black Lives
Built This
COUNTRY"
The words "Black Lives" are painted in black cursive, while the following line "Built This" is painted in green cursive. The final line,…
"Black Lives
Built This
COUNTRY"
The words "Black Lives" are painted in black cursive, while the following line "Built This" is painted in green cursive. The final line,…