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No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake

For over thirty years, artist, educator, and curator Nayland Blake (b. 1960 United States; lives and works in New York) has been a critical figure in American art, working between sculpture, drawing, performance, and video. No Wrong Holes marks the most comprehensive survey of Blake’s work.   In this video interview artist Nayland Blake discusses a number of works and provides some insight into the many themes and ideas represented in the exhibition. Heavily inspired by feminist and queer liberation movements, and subcultures ranging from punk to kink, Blake’s multidisciplinary practice considers the complexities of representation, particularly racial and gender identity; play and eroticism; and the subjective experiences of desire, loss, and power. The artist’s sustained meditation on “passing” and duality as a queer, biracial (African American and white) person is grounded in post-minimalist and conceptual approaches made personal through an idiosyncratic array of materials (such as leather, medical equipment, and food) and the tropes of fairy tales and fantasy. The exhibition pays particular focus to work Blake produced while they lived on the West Coast, first in the greater Los Angeles area as a graduate student at CalArts, followed by a decade in San Francisco—years bookended by the advancement of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and the “culture wars” of the 1990s. No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and curated by Jamillah James, Curator. The List Center presentation is is organized by Selby Nimrod, Assistant Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center.