Great America, Marshall (ASL)

Description

This painting reimagines a boat ride into a haunted tunnel at an amusement park as the Middle Passage?the forced journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas. What might in other hands be a work of heavy irony becomes instead a delicate interweaving of the histories of painting and race. The canvas, which is stretched directly onto the wall, creates a screen or backdrop onto which viewers project their own associations triggered by the powerful imagery.