ARTIST STATEMENT
As a topic-based artist, my multidisciplinary practice involves extensive research of overlooked historical objects, individuals, spaces and events of the Black Diaspora. The narratives that I explore translate the actual and emotional dimensions of these subjects, to draw the viewer in toward the piece and immerse them in a reorienting experience of images, words and ideas. By layering visual elements, I create an experience that is unique and nuanced within the context of prints, sculptures, drawings, or installations. With my work I create platforms that require the viewer to be both present and profound in their observations."
Photo Credit: Karli Evans (c) 2022
ARTIST BIO
Rodney Ewing (b. 1964, Baton Rouge, LA) is a visual artist, whose drawings, installations, and mixed-media works focus on his need to intersect body and place, memory and fact, and to reexamine human histories, cultural conditions, and trauma. As a topic-based artist, Ewing’s interdisciplinary practice involves extensive research of overlooked historical objects, individuals, spaces and events of the Black Diaspora. His work has been exhibited at Jack Shainman Gallery / The School, NY; The Drawing Center, NY; Veterans Museum, Chicago; The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), SF; Minnesota Street Project, SF; Rena Bransten Gallery, SF among many others. Ewing's work is included in the collections at Tisch Library, Tufts University; Fogg Museum, Harvard University; Institute and Museum of California at at UC Irvine; De Young Museum,SF; and the Fairfield CT Museum of Art. Ewing was an Artist-in-Residence at the de Young Museum of Fine Arts, SF; Recology, SF; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Kala, Berkeley, CA; Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA; Bemis AIR, Omaha, NE; HANGAR AIR, Lisbon, Portugal; NARS Foundation; Brooklyn, NY; Fountainhead Arts Miami, FL and The Space Program, San Francisco. Ewing received his BFA in Printmaking from Louisiana State University and his MFA in Printmaking at West Virginia University. He currently lives in New York City and has a studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Ewing is represented by Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. Follow him on Instagram here.