The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics. Illuminating aesthetic connections among 60 artists working in Africa, Europe and the Americas, the exhibition is among the first to examine nearly a quarter century of production by Black artists.

Pendleton’s Our Ideas #4, 2018–2019, comprises 32 prints the artist assembled into a grid. Repurposing images of tribal masks from African Chokwe, Punu and Dogon tribes, ceremonial artefacts, and photographs of Black people, he overlaid these with shapes and phrases that symbolically threaten to overflow their frames. Pendleton creates a space where the urban collides with the rural, the refined with the barbaric, and the white with the Black. 

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