Flipping through the pages of our new @JanivaEllis monograph transports us back to viewing “Rats,” the artist’s first solo museum exhibition at #ICAMiami last year. 📖 Read along as Jessica Bell Brown and Olivia Young explore Ellis’s large-scale paintings that combine abstraction, figuration, race, and social acceleration through imagery culled from art history and pop culture. The artist uses figuration to paint Blackness expansively, communicating the complexity of navigating a lopsided and violent landscape. This volume is edited with foreword by ICA Miami’s Alex Gartenfeld and Stephanie Seidel. Published by @DelMonico_Books. Get your copy from our online shop today: shop.icamiami.org at the link in bio 🛍 _____ #JanivaEllis #figurativepainting #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #painting #artbook #museumbook @teacherbell @OliviaKYoung @AlexGartenfeld @stphsdl