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Jordan Seaberry

The Wanderer, 2015

Description

Maker

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

Title

The Wanderer

Year

2015

Medium

Oil and mixed media collage on canvas

Dimensions

221 x 147.3 cm (87 x 58 inches)

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD

Object Number

2017.62

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty

May 4 - December 30, 2018

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

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