Look Out
- Watercolor, acrylic, and pencil on Rives BFK
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30 x 24 in
(76.2 x 60.96 cm)
- Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Gift of the Artist
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s artwork synthesizes Afrofuturism and earthly and cosmic landscapes to imagine the potential of a radical new future. In Look Out, an indigo, constellation-filled sky sheds blue-hued drops over a rocky landscape, generating another world in which Black people’s full potential can be realized. The artist imagines her landscapes outside of a familiar present, layering translucent swaths of paint and eliminating visual markers of time and space to add a transcendent quality to the work. Sunstrum speculates on African innovation and uniqueness, and calls upon diasporic and collective fantasies to celebrate her African heritage.
Bibliography
- Framed: 39.5 x 32.875 in (100.33 x 83.5 cm)
- Subject Matter: Abstract
- Created: 2013
- Inventory Number: 3364
- Current Location: Alvarez College Union
- Collections: Africana Studies, Painting