Lowe Art Museum presents ‘Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity’

Thursday, February 23rd from 7-9pm join us for the opening reception of ‘Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity‘ at the Lowe Art Museum, enjoy a gallery talk by guest-curator Shantrelle P. Lewis at 7:30pm. Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity seeks to distinguish the historical and contemporary expressions of the Black Dandy phenomenon in popular culture. The first comprehensive exhibition of its kind, this project highlights young men in city-landscapes who defy stereotypical and monolithic understandings of Black masculinity by remixing Victorian-era fashion with traditional African sartorial sensibilities. Using their self-fashioned bodies as sites of resistance, contemporary Black Dandies are complicating modern narratives of what it means to be Black, masculine and fashionable today.

Image: Kia Chenelle (American, b. 1983)
The Waiting Man, 2013
Archival print, 8 x 10 inches
Courtesy of the artist
© Kia Chenelle