IONA ROZEAL BROWN

Infusing Japanese Ukiyo-e compositions with hip-hop styling, American painter Iona Rozeal Brown (born 1966) investigates in her elec trifying narrative canvases the globalization and appropriation of ethnic cultures. Brown's hybridities, which she terms Afro Asiati c allegories, draw on the many parallels between Ukiyo-e and hip-hop--their narrative content, graphic sophistication and broad popu lar appeal--ultimately revealing the fluidity of history, identity and fashion. For the exhibition which this monograph accompanies, MOCA Cl...[Read more]