Rashaad Newsome

Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends the practices of collage, sculpture, video, music, computer programming and performance, to form an altogether new field. Best known for his visually-stunning collages housed in custom frames, Newsome’s work is deeply invested in how images used in media and popular culture communicate distorted notions of power. Using the equalizing force of sampling, he crafts compositions that surprise in their associative potential and walk the tightrope between intersectionality, social practice and abstraction. Newsome’s works opposes cultural essentialisms. They lead us into a realm of uncertainty, in which the symbols presented transform, but are nonetheless made tangible.

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