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VICE PRESIDENT / INVESTMENTS
Boca Raton Museum Of Art’s
The Signing Exhibition
Re-Imagines Contemporary Signing
Of U.S. Constitution
The Boca Raton Museum of Art presents
The Signing, by Renee Cox, the first time a
museum in the United States has exhibited
this iconic painting in its full size.
Her interpretation of Howard Chandler
Christy’s iconic work, Scene at The
Signing of the Constitution of the United
States, leaves visitors spellbound. The
large-scale, 12-foot long photograph re-
imagines women and men of color in the
works place of the Founding Fathers.
The Signing was selected by the
museum’s senior curator, Kathleen
Goncharov, as a spotlight work to showcase
how today’s artists tackle thorny subjects.
The groundbreaking art is on special loan
from the artist, on view through June 1.
Her work is a revisionist look at one of America’s
and most historic events during the founding of the nation.
Some of her subjects wear clothes from the 1700s, some
wear today’s clothes, and others are elegantly robed in
traditional African garb.
Renee Cox is a photographer, artist, lecturer, and
political activist who lives in New York and was born in
Jamaica. She is a specialist in film and digital portraiture,
using light, form, digital technology, and her own
signature style to capture the identities and beauty within
her subjects.
Her photos have provoked conversations at the
intersections of cultural work, activism, gender, and
African studies. On her Wikipedia page, the artist’s profile
states that Renee Cox is a Jamaican-American artist,
photographer, lecturer, political activist and curator. Her
work is considered part of the feminist art movement in
the United States. The artist has dedicated her career to
deconstructing stereotypes and to reconfiguring the black
woman’s body. One of Cox’s main motivations has always
been to create new, positive visual representations of
African-Americans. In her article, A Gynocentric Aesthetic, American artists working today to celebrate black
Cox argues that a shift to matriarchal art will transform womanhood and criticize a society she often views as
aesthetic expressions to interact with daily life and society, racist and sexist. Cox continues to push the envelope
rather than compartmentalized artistic discussions that with her work by using new technologies that the digital
emphasize beauty over process and expression. medium of photography has to offer. Cox’s new work
The work of Renee Cox is acclaimed internationally aims to unleash the potential of the ordinary and bring
by critics and curators. On her website, the artist’s bio it into a new realm of possibilities. “It’s about time that
states that she is one of the most controversial African- we re-imagine our own constitutions,” states Cox.
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