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4F COURIER-POST, Sunday, February 24, 2002 u4 A. 41 Li, rift L3Q Mi r. It Al vA NEW 1 nirei-tionsr0' Ifl ilWiikV-- -1 -1' Artist Beverly Mclver painted herself In blackface makeup In the 1997 work 'Sad' to explore her relationship with the legacy of minstrel shows and stereotypical depictions of blacks. Baltimore Museum of Art 'The Liberation of Lady and U.B.' by Renee Cox depicts Images of black servility by superimposing photographs of blacks in superhero garb over prints of rice and waffle mix boxes. images their own 1MMS 1 make If you go Call (410) 396-7100 or visit the Web site www.arUMna.org In The Liberation of Lady and U.B., the issue of mass-marketed black stereotypes is confronted by three young warriors whose photographic images seem to burst through a large vinyl print of the waffle mix and rice boxes still found at grocery stores everywhere.

Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben occupy the upper left and right corners, respectively, with beatific, non-threatening gazes. Their liberators, on the other hand, are assertive and highly sexualized: two women in thigh-high leather boots, one wearing a black bikini and the other in a one-piece track suit that recalls the late Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner. The man is shirtless, with rippled muscles. Young, tough and virile, they're everything that Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben were never allowed to be. Looking Forward Looking Black also explores the subject of blackface, particularly in a series of self-portraits by Beverly Mclver.

In two works titled "Loving in Black and White," Mclver depicts herself in blackface and period dress, as a caring and nurturing slave or servant. In one, she nurses a white baby; in the other, she lays her head in the lap of a white man. Mclver imbues scenes of tenderness with palpable racial tension, encouraging empathy while also acting as a provocateur. In the painting with the white man, a watermelon slice Tackroom 12x8x8 1059 sits on a shelf above his head. By including the fruit used to mock blacks, Mclver explores how the legacy of minstrelsy looms over contemporary interracial relationships.

Slavery is also addressed, never more starkly than in a series of photographs appropriated by Carrie Anne Weems. The mug shot-style daguerreotypes were taken in 1850 of slaves owned by a South Carolina man. Photographed frontally and in profile on each side, the woman included in the exhibition appears implicated in a crime. But Weems, in "Untitled From the Sea Island Series," gives the woman a nobility the picture-taker didn't see by blowing up the photos and framing them like traditional portraits. "It's an extraordinary work about the relationship of photography to history," Molesworth said.

In the final room of Looking Forward Looking Black, visitors get one last shock: an image, in stark silhouette, of a black girl stealing a chicken from a coop. She has ripped the bird's head off and is drinking the blood gushing out of its neck. Kara Walker's "The Keys to the Coop" is meant to represent the coop owner's worst nightmare. No matter what your storage need, we've got a shed to hold it. HEARTLAND SHEDS AMtmi'A'S 1 Home 38 ttainesport NJ 08036 60261-9893 BUDD'S POOLS 950 Coopei SI H1 17 Denlloirl NJ 08096 856-845-9000 CLYDE B0IST0N SHEDS 'Blinqtoi! NJ 08016 6084994470 VEHICLES UNUNITED 1091 N.

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