Water Me
Solo exhibition by Kwesi Abbensetts
On View: July 7th — Aug 5th, 2017
Brilliant Champions Gallery thrilled to present “Water Me“ a solo exhibition by Kwesi Abbensetts. In his debut solo exhibition the artist presents a vast body of cinematic photographs spanning from 2009 to 2017. Kwesi Abbensetts (b. Guyana, 1976) is a New York based artist whose images wields a deep, bold, and extravagant look into the limitless beauty of blackness. “My work is tightly bound to my identity and consequently the work and subjects become a rendered celebration of my culture. My work is concerned with I call “Revisionary Self Appropriation.” It is a work that seeks to build new context and representation of self and not relying on direct posited contemporary references. It relies on “blood” memory, invention and experimentation via the process of intuitive force performance.”
Mountains
Digital print
14x11 in. (unframed) / 15.75x12.75 in. (framed)
In Love With You
Digital print
10 x 15 in. (unframed)
The Fish On This Land
Digital print
8.5x11 in. (unframed) / 11x14 in. (framed)
Fola In Pieces
Digital print
11x14 in. (unframed) / 12.75x15.75 in. (framed)
An Oversimplification Of His Beauty
Digital print
11x8.5 in. (unframed) / 14x11 in. (framed)
Pushing
Digital print
11x14 in. (unframed) / 12.75x15.75 in. (framed)
The Masking: Super Powers Series #1
Digital print
16 x 20 inches (unframed) x 17x21 in (framed)
The Masking: Super Powers Series #2
Digital print and pride flowers
8.5 x 10 in (unframed) / 9.75 x 11.5 in (framed)
The Masking: Super Powers Series #3
Digital print
8.5 x 10 in (unframed) / 9.75 x 11.5 in (framed)
Braided Roads
Digital print
11x8.5 in. (unframed) / 14x11 in. (framed)
Heavens Rainfall
Digital print
11x8.5 in. (unframed) / 14x11 in. (framed)
The Muse: Fola
Digital print
8.5x11 in. (unframed) / 11x14 in. (framed)
Time Has Lessened
Digital print
10 x 15 in. (unframed)
The Changing
Digital print
8.5x11 in. (unframed) / 11x14 in. (framed)
The Haitian Girl
Digital print
8.5x11 in. (unframed) / 11x14 in. (framed)
Waters Deep
Digital print
10 x 15 in. (unframed)
Plunging Blacks
Digital print
10 x 15 in. (unframed)
Black Back
Digital print
10 x 15 in. (unframed)
Fly Sunshine Fly
Digital print
10 x 15 in. (unframed)
Masked Naked
Digital print
10 x 15 in. (unframed)
Double
Digital print
11x14 in. (unframed) / 12.75x15.75 in. (framed)
Light Works
Digital print
14x11 in. (unframed) / 15.75x12.75 in. (framed)
Time's Right
Digital print
14x11 in. (unframed) / 15.75x12.75 in. (framed)
Mask Of My Past Series #1
Digital print
11x14 in. (unframed) / 12.75x15.75 in. (framed)
Mask Of My Past Series #3
Digital print
11x14 in. (unframed) / 12.75x15.75 in. (framed)
Juxtaposed Jamaica Series #1
Digital print
11x14 in. (unframed) / 12.75x15.75 in. (framed)
Juxtaposed Jamaica Series #2
Digital print
11x14 in. (unframed) / 12.75x15.75 in. (framed)
Into The Future
Digital print
11x14 in. (unframed) / 12.75x15.75 in. (framed)
Heaven Only Knows, Earth Only Grows
Digital print
11x14 in. (unframed) / 12.75x15.75 in. (framed)
Notes Of Peace
Digital print
14x11 in. (unframed) / 15.75x12.75 in. (framed)
Mask Of My Past Series #2
Digital print
14x11 in. (unframed) / 15.75x12.75 in. (framed)