RENEE COX
ABOUT | WORKS | EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT
Renee Cox is one of the most controversial African-American artists working today using her own body, both nude and clothed to celebrate black womanhood and criticize a society she often views as racist and sexist.
She was born on October 16, 1960, in Colgate, Jamaica, into an upper middle-class family, who later settled in Scarsdale, New York. Cox's first ambition was to become a filmmaker. "I was always interested in the visual" she said in one interview, "But I had a baby boomer reaction and was into the immediate gratification of photography as opposed to film, which is a more laborious project."
Cox continues to push the envelope with her work by using new technologies that the digital medium of photography has to offer. By working from her archives and shooting new subjects, Cox seeks to push the limits of her older work and create new consciousnesses of the body. Cox's new work aims to "unleash the potential of the ordinary and bring it into a new realm of possibilities". "It's about time that we re-imagine our own constitutions." states Cox.
WORKS
Derek Adams Full Circle
Archival pigment print
17 x 22 in
The Self Similarity of the Selfie Renee Cox
Archival pigment print
17 x 22 in
The Paradigm Shift of the Marker Kerry James Marshall
Archival pigment print
17 x 22 in
Reggie Star
Archival pigment print
17 x 22 in
Dr. Twins
Archival pigment print
17 x 22 in
EXHIBITIONS
LatchKey Gallery | 173 Henry Street | info@latchkeygallery.com | 646.213.9070