THE REVOLVING DOOR OF GENERATIONAL RACISM* WITH MISEDUCATION TYPOS
BILLY COLBERT (1970 - )
The Revolving Door of Generational Racism.

Acrylic on primed commercial vinyl, 2019. 1574x1574mm; 62x62 inches.

Provenance: collection of the artist.

Exhibited: Dark Secrets & White Lies, Flecker Gallery, Suffolk County Community College, Ammerman Campus, Selden, NY, March 31 - May 12, 2022.

Multidisciplinary artist Billy Colbert uses humor and satire in visual form to critique the history and effects of racial formation. Thematically, each work is flush with contradictions and characters whose relationships to race and power are not immediately obvious, drawing attention to how these forces underlie accepted myths about Blackness and Americanness.

Colbert graduated from Frostburg State University and earned his MFA from the University of Delaware, where he was a Presidential Fellow. In 1999-2000, Colbert was awarded Best of Show in the Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Competition at the African American Museum in Dallas, Texas. His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the African American Museum, Dallas, the World Bank, the National Academy of Science, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Museum of South Texas. Colbert is a Philadelphia-based artist, and a Professor of New Media at Delaware State University.

Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.