Artworks

My Name Is My Name I, 2016

  • Artist

    Texas Isaiah

  • Title

    My Name Is My Name I

  • Date

    2016

  • Medium

    Giclée print on archival paper

  • Dimensions

    20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)

  • Edition

    Edition of 5

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by Pippa Cohen

  • Object Number

    2017.47

Photographer Texas Isaiah documents the complex intersections of identity, place, and personal or communal histories. His portraits, often set in interior spaces, are at once empowering and intimate. In My Name is My Name I, the dramatic use of light and shadow, along with the subject’s carefully composed body, lend a performative aspect to the work. Texas Isaiah opens his practice to counteract the historically misunderstood depiction of Black subjects in photography. The resulting works are poetic, gender-expansive presentations composed with palpable tenderness and care.


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Artworks

My Name Is My Name I, 2016

  • Artist

    Texas Isaiah

  • Title

    My Name Is My Name I

  • Date

    2016

  • Medium

    Giclée print on archival paper

  • Dimensions

    20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)

  • Edition

    Edition of 5

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by Pippa Cohen

  • Object Number

    2017.47

Photographer Texas Isaiah documents the complex intersections of identity, place, and personal or communal histories. His portraits, often set in interior spaces, are at once empowering and intimate. In My Name is My Name I, the dramatic use of light and shadow, along with the subject’s carefully composed body, lend a performative aspect to the work. Texas Isaiah opens his practice to counteract the historically misunderstood depiction of Black subjects in photography. The resulting works are poetic, gender-expansive presentations composed with palpable tenderness and care.


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