Mark Steven Greenfield
Comments (0) Mark Steven Greenfield’s multimedia photographs, paintings and sculptures offer a contemporary critique of race through the exploration of one of America’s infamously controversial forms of entertainment: Black-face performance. Appropriating and representing historic minstrel images, Greenfield simultaneously exposes the spectacle of an era while reclaiming an essentially white construct. Determinedly confrontational, yet in ways that are as conspicuous as they are subversive, this work not only questions but struts the line between what is racist and what is politically correct.
Mark Steven Greenfield received his BA in Education at California State University, Long Beach and his MFA at California State University, Los Angeles. His most recent solo exhibitions include Post Minstrel at Steve Turner Gallery in Beverly Hills (2004), Blackatcha at Reginald Ingraham Gallery in Los Angeles (2000) and Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas. His work has been included in many important group exhibitions, including Whiteness: A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California (2003) and the University of Virginia Museum in Charlottesville (2004); African American Artists in Los Angeles: Fade (1990-2003), at the Luckman Gallery, Cal State L.A. (2004); Only Skin Deep, International Center for Photography, New York (2004); Color, Culture and Complexity at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta (2002); Affirming A Visual Heritage at the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles (1996); and in other exhibitions at venues including the Santa Monica Museum of Art (1992), the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena (1990), and the historic Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles (1978).
