Reception & Artist’s Talk: “Bloodlines: The Work of Toni Scott”

“Bloodlines,” by Los Angeles sculptor, painter, and multi-media artist Toni Scott, combines life-size and smaller sculptures, paintings, montages, maps, audio recordings, slave ship, cotton field, and genealogy tableaux, and other elements. This powerful artwork evokes the memories of slavery and its legacies in the United States.

Toni Scott is an African American artist of mixed ancestry who is committed to bringing the tragic story of the African American experience to her viewers, engaging them in a quest for deeper historical consciousness. Scott uses photography, graphic design, digital rendering, sculpture in resin, plaster bandage, metal and wood, collage, fiber, cotton, burlap, ink, acrylic paint, moss and twine in an extraordinary fusion of forms and materials in this remarkable installation.

“Bloodlines” is an artwork with a vigorous historical vision. Its compelling fusion of visual elements and details emphasizes the past, generating a simultaneous intellectual comprehension of slavery and an emotional linkage to its human costs and consequences. On view February 7–April 26, 2013, Brown Gallery and Museum, Sonja Haynes Stone Center, UNC. The exhibition opens on February 7, at 7pm, with a reception and talk with artist Toni Scott.