Genevieve Gaignard: Smell the Roses (California African American Museum)
 
 
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Genevieve Gaignard: Smell the Roses (California African American Museum)

 
 
 
Location CAAM Los Angeles, October 19, 2016 – February 19 , 2017
Photographer Genevieve Gaignard, The Color Purple, 2016. Courtesy of Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

'Smell the Roses' by Genevieve Gaignard merges black and white identity and is on display at CAAM, Los Angeles

Smell the Roses... CAAM presents the first museum exhibition of the work of Los Angeles artist Genevieve Gaignard, who deftly uses installation, photographic self-portraiture, and sculpture to explore race, femininity, and class – and their various intersections. The daughter of a black father and white mother in a Massachusetts mill town, Gaignard’s youth was marked by a strong sense of invisibility. Was her family white enough to be white?...

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