Recent Acquisition ✨ Kenturah Davis explores the fundamental role of language through drawings, textiles, sculpture and performances. The artist (b.1984, Glendale, CA) uses text as a point of departure in her work, oscillating between various facets of portraiture and design. "I consider the drawings to be a translation of the light and shadow information of the photograph into textual information that, in one way or another, suggests something about our relationship with language... For the most recent drawings I’ve inscribed the text with a blunt tool, so that the writing is depressed into the paper, then I do a pencil rubbing to simultaneously render the figure and make the embedded text more visible." — @Kenturah Davis—who works between Los Angeles, New Haven, and Accra—often uses text by writers from the African diaspora, to investigate how language shapes our perceptions of the self and the world. _______ (1-2) Kenturah Davis, "Contending with Contingency IX," 2021. Carbon pencil rubbing on debossed cotton paper, mounted. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Museum purchase with funds provided by Mr. Jeff Jaeger and Mrs. Kristen Boggs Jaeger and Charles Morris. Image courtesy Matthew Brown, Los Angeles. Photo by Ed Mumford. (3) Kenturah Davis in her studio. Image courtesy the artist. #KenturahDavis #Portraiture #PencilDrawing #Drawing #ContemporaryArtist #ContemporaryArt #ICAMiami #MiamiArt #MiamiMuseum