Another Land/Decolonial Drawings

This chapter discusses an exhibition of drawings that took place in 2022. The drawings were from two different bodies of work created during the pandemic. The first series was entitled In Another's Hand and the second series was entitled Decolonial Drawings. The first set grew out of a print project that was commissioned by the Smithsonian's Journal of the Archives of American Art. The drawings were derived from works that had been exhibited in the first anti-lynching exhibition in the United States; entitled An Art Commentary on Lynching, held from February 15 to March 2, 1935 at Arthur U. Newton Galleries in New York. The second set of drawings looked at depictions of the Americas from museum collections, but where then redrawn without the human forms as a conceptual art work to visually deconstruct images of colonialism in the Americas.

Keywords: Anti-lynching ; conceptual art ; Conquest ; De Bry illustrations ; decolonial ; drawing ; erasure ; Lynching