Yashua Klos : our labour / edited by Tracy L. Adler; contributions by LeRonn P. Brooks and Lauren Haynes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klos, Yashua, 1977- interviewee.

Adler, Tracy L., editor, museum director.

Haynes, Lauren, contributor.

Brooks, LeRonn P., interviewer.

Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, host.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Klos, Yashua, 1977-.

Klos, Yashua.

Klos, Yashua, 1977---Interviews.

Klos, Yashua, 1977---Catalogs.

Wood-engraving--Printing--21st century.

Wood-engraving.

Block printing--21st century.

Block printing.

Sculpture, Modern--21st century.

Sculpture, Modern.

Figurative art--21st century.

Figurative art.

Artists, Black--21st century.

Artists, Black.

Black people--Race identity--In art.

Black people.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Interviews.

Photobooks.

Physical Description:

187 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Clinton, NY : Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art ; New York, N.Y. : Delmonico Books, 2023.

Summary:

This book features a recent body of work by New York-based artist Yashua Klos (born 1977) and builds upon the artist's explorations into the intersections between the human form, the natural world and the built environment. Foregrounding a series of print-based and sculptural works, Yashua Klos: Our Labour considers how familial, geographic and narrative histories inform notions of identity. Klos employs a process of collaging woodblock prints to engage ideas about Blackness and maleness as identities that are both fragmented and constructed. In this volume, Klos introduces works conceived around an examination of creative and industrial labor through both deeply personal and historic lenses.

Contents:

Director's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Transformational Rehabilitation and Yashua Klos: Our Labour

Our Labour

Conversation / LeRonn P. Brooks and Yashua Klos

Masks

Tyla

Auntie Grandma

Vein Vine

Visible and Invisible Labor / Lauren Haynes

When the Parts Untangle

Yonna and Towana

The Bridge Between Heaven and Earth

Woodblocks

Artists' Acknowledgments

Contributors.

Notes:

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Yashua Klos: Our Labour' organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, February 12-June 12, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781636811031

1636811035

OCLC:

1380459179