Joyce J. Scott

Book excerpt: The most comprehensive publication available to date on the artwork of MacArthur `Genius¿ Fellow, Joyce J. Scott, this beautiful volume features more than 50 works from the last 45 years¿drawn from private and public collections as well as the artist¿s own holdings. Also included are 12 new works based upon Harriet Tubman that were especially commissioned and created for the artists¿ 2017-2018 exhibition entitled Joyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths at noted NJ sculpture park and museum, Grounds For Sculpture. The exhibition is guest co-curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and Patterson Sims (no relation).The publication includes scholarly essays by distinguished curators Lowery Stokes Sims and Patterson Sims, as well as a commentary by Seph Rodney, whose fresh voice offers focus on issues of representation, politics, and artistic practice in the context of contemporary events involving African American and other oppressed and challenged people around the world. The book presents new information on the art and politics of this important 21st century artist, the lineage of master crafts people from which she descends, and provides visually seductive evidence of her artistic collaborations with master glassblowers in Murano Italy and Baltimore, MD, as well as with The Seward Johnson Atelier and Digital Atelier. More than 75 plates are included.