Assata Shakur As Ahmes Nefertari
Brooklyn-based artist Oasa DuVerney’s intricate graphite and pulverized gold drawing casts the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army heroine and fugitive Assata Shakur as an incarnation of the first great royal wife of the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt. The artist overlays a drawn portrait based on Shakur’s 1971 mugshot with a meticulously incised rendering of a headdress depicted in Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen (ca. 1580–1550 BCE) in The Met’s collection.
Artwork Details
- Title: Assata Shakur As Ahmes Nefertari
- Artist: Oasa DuVerney (American, born New York 1979)
- Date: 2018
- Medium: Graphite, gold dust, and cuts on paper
- Dimensions: 19 × 21 1/2 in. (48.3 × 54.6 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift of David and Julie Tobey, 2024
- Object Number: 2024.414
- Rights and Reproduction: 2018 Oasa DuVerney
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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