BLACK LEADER

Last Day For The 2021 Frieze NYC Viewing Room!

Last day to see my solo booth with Microscope Gallery @ the 2021 Frieze NYC Viewing Room!

Virtually Come thru!

Ina Archer is an artist expanding the possibilities of moving image, installation, sculpture, and collage. Archer’s works draw attention to stereotypical and degrading representations of African Americans and the “other” in commercial cinema, literature, art, and product branding from the 1900s to the present. Often through the use of humor, Archer re-makes and re-contextualizes images of blackness to address themes of race, race relations, and cultural appropriation.

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Microscope Gallery received some wonderful press!

New York Times

FADMAGAZINE

More FADMAGAZINE

Frame Prize Honorable Mention

Collector Daily

G E T O U T! directed by Jordan Peele

I was happy to write a review of Get Out for Film Comment's blog! I worked hard to be spoiler-free:

excerpt: Get Out self-consciously and subtly mines the conventions of the horror genre to create a film that resonates on multiple levels. It applies the universal concerns of horror movies (such as providing catharsis for our fears) to specific issues of race and racism, and particularly of blackness, effectively linking a nuanced storyline to the familiar signifiers of the genre—a sense of paranoiac dread, sudden scares, and requisite carnage—making visible the all too familiar microaggressions experienced daily by African Americans...

But srsly, speaking of self-involved girlfriends, I wonder what the opinionated Meegan would think of G e t O u t?

Here's what she thinks about HER (2013):

Trail-Her from Ina Archer on Vimeo.

 

 

 

Oscar Time!

image via Hollywood Reporter-read their thorough article on McDaniel and the Academy Awards here:

Well, it's actually after the Awards Show that will live in infamy. I missed the moment having gone to bed in disgust after L2 Land was mistaken for the "Best Picture".  The only reason I have that pile of plastic, glass and electrons is to see a live moment like that and I didn't see it. "Oh well, you know..." But I have been remiss in posting my Hattie video this year and so #black_leader presents it now:

 

Hattie McDaniel: Or A Credit To The Motion Picture Industry from Ina Archer on Vimeo.