Tree Woman, 2016
Wangechi Mutu. National Museum of African Art (NMAfA), Museum purchase, Women’s Initiative Fund
Internationally renowned for her sculptures, paintings, films, installations, and collages, Wangechi Mutu creates works that examine the very idea of human representation—both how we see and evoke what we believe we are, and how we see and evoke those we understand as outside of ourselves. Her experiments rendering hybrid female creatures and vivid dystopian dreamscapes investigate how our value systems, artistic or otherwise, obscure or uplift our images and reflections.
Join the artist for a talk on Tree Woman, her work featured in Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, and her broader practice.
About the Artist
Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972) is a Kenyan American artist. Mutu has participated in several major solo exhibitions in institutions worldwide, most recently, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined at both the New Museum and New Orleans Museum of Art; Thinking Historically in the Present at the Sharjah Biennial; Wangechi Mutu at Storm King Art Center; The Façade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us at the Metropolitan Museum Art; and Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? at the Legion of Honor Museum.
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