GEEX Talks: Charisse Pearlina Weston | March 1, 2021
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Artist Statement
Charisse Pearlina Weston’s creative work emerges from deep material investigations of poetics and the autobiographical. She utilizes glass to conceptually embody both the everyday risk of anti-black violence and the precocity and malleability of blackness in the face of this violence. She deploys language and the autobiographical to examine the delicate intimacies and reticent poetics underlying black life. She reuses and re-articulates materials from past installations to formulate the next to represent meaning’s capacity to shatter.
Bio
Charisse Pearlina Weston is a conceptual artist and writer whose practice is grounded in a deep material investigation of poetics and the autobiographical in the service of black people. Her recent exhibitions include group shows at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Praz-Delavallade Gallery LA, and Abrons Art Center; she has participated in solo exhibitions at Project Row Houses and Recess (forthcoming).
Her awards include individual artist grants from the Puffin Foundation, the Santo Foundation, Artadia Fund For the Arts, and the Dallas Museum of Art’s Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund. In 2016 she was a Southern Constellation Fellow at the Elsewhere Museum, she was a 2019 Dedalus Foundation Fellow in Painting and Sculpture and will be a 2021 Creative Glass Fellow at the Wheaton Arts Center.
She holds a MFA from the University of California-Irvine and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program.
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