Chanell Stone
Imago, 2020

archival pigment prints
31”H x 42”W

ARTWORK STATEMENT:

Imago is a gridded assemblage of photographs reflecting the interiority of the Black body. The artist explores what it means to be alive within one’s body and exist within the multiplicity of Blackness. Through fragmented form, shadow and individuated images presented together as one this display is a metaphor for collectivity and the sum of one’s parts.

Artist Bio:

Chanell Stone (b. 1992, Los Angeles) is an artist living and working in Oakland, California. Stone earned her BFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 2019 and has exhibited in galleries in San Francisco and New York. Her solo exhibition Natura Negra appeared at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco in 2019–2020, and she was a shortlisted finalist for the 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award.