Skip to main content

Visit Main Menu Block

  • Hours & Admission
  • Accessibility & Amenities
  • Tours & Group Visits
  • Visitor Guidelines

Exhibitions and Events Main Menu Block

  • Exhibitions
  • Events

Art and Design Main Menu Block

  • Collection
  • Collection Research
  • Past Exhibitions
  • Watch / Listen / Read

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Image

Jordan Seaberry

The Wanderer

Description

Maker

Jordan Seaberry (American, b.1989), (RISD BFA 2014, Painting)

Title

The Wanderer

Year

2015

Medium

  • Oil and mixed media collage on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Oil and mixed media collage on canvas

Dimensions

221 x 147.3 cm (87 x 58 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD

Object Number

2017.62

Type

  • Paintings

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

I hope that what this painting lacks in place, it makes up for in context. Shifting, aimless, meandering, its horizonless world is both unending and, at the same time, claustrophobic.

Any parental relationship is complicated, but the backdrop here is of a dissolving family, a dissolving horizon, a dissolving black future. Amid that, there is the determination to march forward, row, row, row. The Wanderer: Hieronymus Bosch, Kerry James Marshall, Iron Man comic books, slavery iconography, and Bob Ross all in equal measure. The role of the ocean in the Black psyche, the role of Christianity in that ocean’s slave trade, and the role of fantasy in the development of creative instinct all float and swim together in a borderless world, all the narratives equal. In the end, it’s possible that we may just be treading water. -Jordan Seaberry

Use & Feedback

Image use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use.

This object is in copyright

Tombstone

Jordan Seaberry (American, b.1989)
The Wanderer, 2015
Oil and mixed media collage on canvas
221 x 147.3 cm (87 x 58 inches)
Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD 2017.62

To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

Feedback

We view our online collection as a living documents, and our records are frequently revised and enhanced. If you have additional information or have spotted an error, please send feedback to curatorial@risd.edu.

RISD Museum

  •  Facebook
  •  Twitter
  •  Instagram
  •  Vimeo
  •  Pinterest
  •  SoundCloud

Footer Main

  • Become a Member
  • Who We Are
  • Opportunities
  • Rent the Museum

Footer Secondary

  • Image Request
  • Press Office
  • Rent the Museum
  • Terms of Use