Thesis Exhibition: April 9 - April 12 

Reception: April 11, 5-8pm  

Medals of Memory, 2024, Ceramic, Glass, Glaze, Metal, Satin, Indigo-dyed Velvet, Gold Luster, 18in.x18in., image courtesy of artist. 

Seeker, 2024, Ceramic, Glass, Glaze, Gold Luster, 16.5in.x16.5in., image courtesy of artist. 

Artist Statement 

I use Afrodiasporic material culture to create both utilitarian and decorative objects to adorn and hold space for connection, witnessing, reflection, and confrontation as an embodied way of understanding. I explore how indigo, cotton, and glass rooted in commerce, regality, and technology can be used to recontextualize site, and land to make visible entangled histories connected to labor and liberation. How can these materials, with their social and historical context, reimagine adornment separate from their colonial Eurocentric extractive qualities? Can these objects be used to honor ourselves (and our ancestors) rooted in Black American practices of spirituality and sacredness? Iconography of bamboo earrings, braids, and Sankofa are woven into the work that act as both a coded language, and textural tools to adorn the work. By using doorknockers, an ode to the adornment of the 90s to early 2000s Hip Hop culture and art movement, I implore Afrocentricity in our own regality. I explore how land, water, and the body are vessels for Afrodiasporic cultural production. How do the objects, individually and collectively, hold care, joy, agency, spirituality as a poly-temporal site of radical possibility, resistance and protest, to envision a space of on-going freedom?   

More information about Angelique Scott at www.AngeliqueScott.com  

All photos credited to the artist.