DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/F3DE-N723
Defense Date
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
Painting and Printmaking
First Advisor
Noah Simblist
Second Advisor
Caitlin Cherry
Third Advisor
Cara Benedetto
Fourth Advisor
Holly Morrison
Abstract
I Hope My Black Skin Don't Dirt This White Tuxedo is a series of works--sculpture, installations, and performances--that explore themes of shame, failure, commodity, ephemerality, ritual, resilience, erasure, race, and death. The research and interest in these themes stem from a page of the Trinidad and Tobago Slave Registry. I use the research that surrounds this document to highlight different moments in history, in my personal life, and to imagine near futures.
Rights
© Luis Vasquez La Roche
Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-18-2020
Included in
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