| Length | 05:07 |
| Licensor | Dmae Roberts |
| Producer(s) | Dmae Roberts and damali ayo |
| Formats | Documentary, First-person essay, Soft Feature |
| Topics | African American, Art, Women |
| Produced | July, 2003 |
| Added to PRX | March 28, 2004 |
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artist damali ayo's search through paint stores to match paint to her skin tones.
Produced with funding by HearingVoices.com through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Premiered on Studio 360 August 2003. Editor: Peter Clowney.
Contemplative, Engaging, Humorous
English
"Nude" is also the name of a color - that of the pinkish "flesh" crayon, or a shade of women's hosiery. The artist and writer damali ayo decided to create a series of paintings based on a different tone of nude -- her own, un-pink skin. So she visited a series of paint stores, took along her low-fi tape recorder and asked for help from the guys behind the counters. This piece premiered on Studio 360 and is also featured on Hearing Voices.com and Stories1st.org.
About damali ayo:
damali ayo
creates dialogue-driven conceptual art that engages contemporary social issues through the media of assemblage and installation. Through her work, ayo reconceptualizes everyday objects to create a shift in a viewer's perspective on our world and our positions within it. Her work has been shown at galleries all over the country, and has been reviewed by publications such as Artpapers, the Village Voice, Salon.com and the Washington Post. Most recently ayo created a web-art-performance "rent-a-negro.com," which explores the commodification of individuals and the interactions between blacks and whites in society.
