The Matriarch's Rhapsody, 2012
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- Artist
Jacolby Satterwhite
- Title
The Matriarch's Rhapsody
- Date
2012
- Medium
HD digital video, color 3-D animation
- Edition
Ed. 1/8
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee
- Object Number
2013.4
Jacolby Satterwhite’s mother, Patricia Satterwhite, would often sketch her own inventions and unique objects, as if designing them for QVC infomercials. Featuring the artist’s three-dimensional renderings of these objects, The Matriarch's Rhapsody reimagines and documents Patricia’s inventions. The objects are accompanied by her original sketches, family photographs, and the artist’s own computer-animated performance work. Satterwhite often inserts himself into his work, pointing to relationships between individual and collective histories, as well as real and imagined experiences.
The Matriarch's Rhapsody, 2012
![](https://studiomuseum.imgix.net/images/The-Matriarchs-Rhapsody.jpg?auto=format,compress&fit=max&w=4040)
- Artist
Jacolby Satterwhite
- Title
The Matriarch's Rhapsody
- Date
2012
- Medium
HD digital video, color 3-D animation
- Edition
Ed. 1/8
- Credit line
The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee
- Object Number
2013.4
Jacolby Satterwhite’s mother, Patricia Satterwhite, would often sketch her own inventions and unique objects, as if designing them for QVC infomercials. Featuring the artist’s three-dimensional renderings of these objects, The Matriarch's Rhapsody reimagines and documents Patricia’s inventions. The objects are accompanied by her original sketches, family photographs, and the artist’s own computer-animated performance work. Satterwhite often inserts himself into his work, pointing to relationships between individual and collective histories, as well as real and imagined experiences.