Rodney McMillian: The Black Show

February 3, 2016

Associate professor Rodney McMillian presents an exhibition of work titled "The Black Show" at the Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania. McMillian teaches in the Art Department.

Rodney McMillian’s (born 1969 Columbia, SC; lives Los Angeles) broad artistic range forms an extended physical meditation on the United States. These sculptures, paintings, room-sized constructions, videos, and performances embody our social fabric in patterns cut by class, economic status, culture, race, gender, and history.

Deeply attuned to the social systems and policy decisions that economically and psychologically shape our bodies, McMillian engages the gestures of these forces directly: going large in scale through small actions, using post-consumer objects to reveal latent ideologies, exposing the violent strata by which a vulnerable citizenship is built. Added to this melting pot, here McMillian draws upon a fascination with science fiction to envision a place where fantastical physical transformation might express the unraveling of social injustices.— Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 3

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