Paul Mpagi Sepuya, 1982
Lives and works in Brooklyn
Studio, 2011.
About:
“I am primarily concerned with the structures of portraiture and photography, its history and attendant conventions”
Skirt Sepuya.
What does it mean for artists using photography within a circuit of homosocial desire to be making portraiture today? Sepuya works with primary photographs and re-photographed materials from his studio space which both define and document his practice – a constant revision and incorporation of accumulating material into constellations of narratives.
Study for TH with Three Figures, 2015.
In time, he says, they become many things: framed for the wall, stacks of laser printouts on paper, books, zines, and installations of dated working material.
Sepuya has been artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace (2009-2010), the Center for Photography at Woodstock (2010), The Studio Museum in Harlem (2010-2011) and FIAR Fire Island Artist Residency (2013).
On Back.
Yellow Sheet.
Re-Photograph, 2015.
His most recent artist publication, STUDIO WORK, was published in 2012 and the related body of work has been exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, and Artspeak, Vancouver, and will continue to travel in 2014 to Platform Centre in Winnipeg, Canada, and Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa.
Sepuya is currently at the Jackman Goldwasser Residency at the Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois, from February 22 – April 15. Paul Mpagi Sepuya born 1982, San Bernardino, CA lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. (from site Platinum Love, June 14, 2015)
Copyright/courtesy: the photographer