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Ken Gonzales-Day: Composition in Black and Brown with Yale Center for British Art and Yale Peabody
August 17
Monday, August 5, 2024–Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Composition in Black and Brown I
Composition in Black and Brown I is a billboard on view from August to October, 2024 on Interstate 95 North in West Haven, Connecticut.
Composition in Black and Brown II
Composition in Black and Brown II is a site-specific vinyl artwork on view from August to December 2024 in the windows of the Lower Court of the YCBA, adjacent to the courtyard of Harvest Wine Bar and Restaurant at 1104 Chapel Street in New Haven.
In the summer of 2023, Ken Gonzales-Day (b. 1964) was a visiting artist at the Yale Center for British Art. During his time in New Haven, he researched and photographed portrait busts and other sculptures in the collections of both the YCBA and the Yale Peabody Museum. The two museums then commissioned Gonzales-Day to create a public artwork. The result is Composition in Black and Brown (2024), an image that prompts questions about the historical constructions of race and the limits of representation.
In conjunction with artist talk September 12
