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Visiting Artist Lectures/Interviews
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Work Title (display):
What Follows Interview, Michael Ray Charles
Image Title:
video
Work Description:
Interviewers: Michael Dixon and Alfredo Ortiz
Work Dates (display):
October 7, 2003
Work Dates type:
lecture
Work Creator (display):
Michael Ray Charles (American, born 1967)
Work Creator gender:
male
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Work Creator notes (display):
Michael Ray Charles was born in 1967 in Lafayette, Louisiana, and graduated from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 1985. In college, he studied advertising design and illustration, eventually moving into painting, his preferred medium. Charles also received an MFA degree from the University of Houston in 1993. His graphically styled paintings investigate racial stereotypes drawn from a history of American advertising, product packaging, billboards, radio jingles, and television commercials. Charles draws comparisons between Sambo, Mammy, and minstrel images of an earlier era and contemporary mass-media portrayals of black youths, celebrities, and athletes—images he sees as a constant in the American subconscious. "Stereotypes have evolved," he notes. "I'm trying to deal with present and past stereotypes in the context of today's society." Caricatures of African-American experience, such as Aunt Jemima, are represented in Charles's work as ordinary depictions of blackness, yet are stripped of the benign aura that lends them an often unquestioned appearance of truth. "Aunt Jemima is just an image, but it almost automatically becomes a real person for many people, in their minds. But there's a difference between these images and real humans." In each of his paintings, notions of beauty, ugliness, nostalgia, and violence emerge and converge, reminding us that we cannot divorce ourselves from a past that has led us to where we are, who we have become, and how we are portrayed. Charles lives in Texas and teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. (PBS Art21 Accessed 2008-02-06)
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
2003 visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Work Style Period:
21st century
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21st century
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Work Subject:
paintings (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
lectures
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Work Measurements (display):
00:28:11
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Colorado, Department of Art and Art History
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
interview
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boulder, Colorado
Work Rights (display):
© Michael Ray Charles
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Collection:
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