Digable Underground
Roberto Lugo American
Lugo is renowned for his vibrant reinterpretations of eighteenth-century European porcelain forms, which he reimagines through the lens of contemporary hip-hop culture and embellishes with grafitti and kente prestige cloth patterns. His works center the portraits of heroes whose visages do not often adorn fine porcelain or whose stories are too often absent from such luxurious wares. Here, nineteenth-century abolitionist Harriet Tubman faces the kitchen and contemporary singer-songwriter Erykah Badu looks into the living room; together, they reflect the ways that the kitchen acts as a site of temporal confluence - a merging of past and present into future possibilities.
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