Ms. Hinkle's exhibition, "The Evanesced," running through June 25, aims to give a voice to missing African-American women.
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Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle: The Evanesced continues at the California African American Museum (600 State Dr, Los Angeles) through June 25.
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THE ARTS An article on Saturday about the artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle misstated the closing date of her current exhibition, "The Evanesced," at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles.
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On April 27 Hinkle will re-animate the paintings in a performance called "The Evanesced: Embodied Disappearance," where she will combine costuming, recorded readings, and a musical soundtrack to honor and breathe life into these women who've been eclipsed.
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Finally, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle: The Evanesced features expressionistic portraits that the artist created while dancing to blues, hip-hop, and club music, conjuring up a centuries-long pattern of the disappearance of African-American women, either through slavery, trafficking, or contemporary violence.
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In her latest show The Evanesced, artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle confronts society's compulsion to reframe, mitigate, or eliminate the role of black women in the US. Current headlines demonstrate the social and political forces at play in erasing the contributions and presence of black women.
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Lindsay Graham and Dick Durbin, Republican and Democratic senators respectively, came up with a bill that gives DREAMers a path to citizenship, funds some of Mr Trump's border wall (his insistence that Mexico will pay for it seems to have evanesced) and eliminates the Diversity Visa programme, which provides green cards for immigrants from places that send few people to America.
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In The Evanesced at the California African American Museum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle confronts society's compulsion to reframe, mitigate, or eliminate the role of black women in the US. Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — Spanning the length of a large gallery wall at the California African American Museum is a slim rectangular grid of 100 images of women whose names and identities are unknown.
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They form close social circles and gender based roles are not prevalent. Through the community they educate and provide social well-being. The practices and independence of this culture have prevailed even as other cultures have been dominated by European powers. In Hinkle's work The Evanesced, which means to gradually fade away, she creates amorphous representations of bodies, some feature dashes of color to accent certain parts of them.
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Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (born 1987) is an American artist and Assistant Professor at the University of California at Berkeley Department of Art Practice, who focuses on questions of race, sexuality, and history through a variety of visual and textual mediums. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Notable works include the Kentrifica project, the Tituba series, The Evanesced, and the Uninvited series. She is a member of CTRL+SHFT Collective in Oakland, CA.
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The British officer went on his knees and prayed, for he knew it was none other than Lord Rama and his divine brother Lakshmana. It was indeed strange that nobody else who was a part of the Collector's retinue saw the Lord. After a while the vision evanesced and the rain stopped. The grateful Collector undertook the building of the shrine for Janakavalli thayar and Lord Rama in the temple came to be known as the Erikatha Ramar (Rama who saved the tank (Eri)).
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