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BLACKGEEZER
31 May – 6 July 2024
Alma Pearl, Unit T, Reliance Wharf, London
Press The Art Newspaper, London Gallery Weekend 2024: our critics pick their top shows, article by Ben Luke and Louisa Buck
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BLCKGEEZER in conversation with Lola Olufemi
BLCKGEEZER
Ebonised Milk, 2023
Acrylic, molding paste, ink, chalk, charcoal, talcum powder, clay, sand, hair, oil and varnish on canvas
250 x 250 cm
98 1/2 x 98 1/2 in
98 1/2 x 98 1/2 in
(MJB003)
The concept ‘Black Nausea’ is a term coined by the artist. Black–its associative bond animating the term nausea–creates an uneasiness that offers a transformative state, perhaps even a new trajectory for the lived experience. In the artist’s own words: “I came up with ‘Black Nausea’ after my experience of chemotherapy. It is an ongoing speculation and pillar. I’m thinking about the unease and discomfort of black… I think black nausea is a space for me to think, question, and speculate, there’s no right or wrong.” The painting Barren Cassareep evinces a sense of play echoed in numerous nuances present in BLCKGEEZER’s work. Barren, which connotes infertility, is a play on the word baron–a reference to the Caribbean cooking sauce comprised of black liquid. A key here is the connection between forms and materialities–all that is produced through contact–a sweat that is at once bodily, experiential, conceptual, and existential.
The concept ‘Black Nausea’ is a term coined by the artist. Black–its associative bond animating the term nausea–creates an uneasiness that offers a transformative state, perhaps even a new trajectory for the lived experience. In the artist’s own words: “I came up with ‘Black Nausea’ after my experience of chemotherapy. It is an ongoing speculation and pillar. I’m thinking about the unease and discomfort of black… I think black nausea is a space for me to think, question, and speculate, there’s no right or wrong.” The painting Barren Cassareep evinces a sense of play echoed in numerous nuances present in BLCKGEEZER’s work. Barren, which connotes infertility, is a play on the word baron–a reference to the Caribbean cooking sauce comprised of black liquid. A key here is the connection between forms and materialities–all that is produced through contact–a sweat that is at once bodily, experiential, conceptual, and existential.
BLCKGEEZER
Soft Opening: (ribs protect the heart), 2024
Acrylic, oil, chalk, charcoal, clay and velvet on jute
190 x 130 cm
74 3/4 x 51 1/4 in
74 3/4 x 51 1/4 in
(MJB006)
Another conceptual neologism BLCKGEEZER has coined is ‘Breastistentialism’. Central to this work is aligning thought and imagination to question existence from a new perspective, one that is otherwise and ‘breast-centred’ and holds everything at stake. The proposition: black, breast, and blackness as abstraction that comes forward as a method and mode–a way of being in the world–to think other than the dominant and prescribed in a nuanced perspective.
BLCKGEEZER
Zenith oxytocin: (love is the highest point) , 2024
Oil and hair on canvas
25 x 25 cm
9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in
(MJB011)
Zenith oxytocin: (love is the highest point) , 2024
Oil and hair on canvas
25 x 25 cm
9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in
(MJB011)
BLCKGEEZER aka Miya Jazmin Browne (b. 1997) is an artist born and based in London. BLCKGEEZER holds a BA from the University of Westminster (2020) and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2023), and was the recipient of the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship (2022-2023) as well as the Chadwell Award 2023. Recent exhibitions include MANIFOLD DELUXE at No.9 Cork Street (2023); BUFFER 2, Guts Gallery (2023); and Transforming Legacies at Black Cultural Archives (2022), an exhibition looking at Black British Art history curated by Pacheanne Anderson.