Rodney Ewing Explained

Rodney Ewing
Website:https://www.rodneyewing.com/
Occupation:Visual artist
Education:Louisiana State University,
West Virginia University
Birth Place:Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.

Rodney Ewing (born 1964)[1] [2] is an African-American interdisciplinary visual artist. He lives in New York City as of 2022, and formerly lived in San Francisco, California.[3]

Early life and education

Rodney Ewing was born in 1964 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His father was a Vietnam veteran, who also served 20 years in the United States Air Force. Rodney Ewing also served in the military and is a Desert Storm veteran.[4] Ewing’s father introduced him to art through comic books. Ewing also said he went to schools that had strong art programs.[5]

Ewing received his Bachelor of Fine Art: Printmaking, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1989; and his Master of Fine Arts: Printmaking, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia in 1992.

Work

Ewing's work explores identity, narrative, history, space, displacement, physical vulnerability and violence.[6] [7] Ewing's work involves extensive subject research. Often Ewing uses once-common, but now little-known historical objects. He also uses first person narratives.[8] Ewing's art explores and translates the literal and emotional dimensions of these subjects. Along with historical images of artifacts and victims of violence, Ewing often layers in quotations by different writers. Reading these quotations, sometimes obscured by the visual elements of the piece, creates another experience that is unique and nuanced within the context of the print, sculpture or installation.[9] He employs different methods to draw the viewer in, literally and figuratively, toward the piece and immerses the viewer in a reorienting experience of images, words and ideas.

Ewing's work has referenced James Baldwin, Henry Box Brown, Colson Whitehead, George Stinney, Charles Moore, San Francisco Redevelopment after Japanese Internment, Ralph Ellison, Petrus Camper, and Saul Williams. His artwork is in public museum collections, including at Harvard Art Museums,[10] Fairfield University Art Museum,[11] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Reviews

“Rodney Ewing’s drawings, installations, and mixed media works focus on his need to intersect body and place, memory and fact to re-examine human histories, cultural conditions, and events. With his work he is pursuing a narrative that requires us to be present and intimate.”[12]
...much of [Ewing's] work is about empowering the audience and giving them opportunities to recognize their own agency[13]

Residencies and select exhibitions

Select works

References

  1. Web site: Ewing, Rodney, 1964- . VIAF.
  2. Web site: My Country Needs Me . 2022-12-29 . Philadelphia Museum of Art . en.
  3. Web site: Wilson . Emily . 2022-09-19 . Rumors About Death of the Bay Area Art Scene Are Greatly Exaggerated . 2022-12-29 . Hyperallergic . en-US.
  4. Web site: San Francisco Art Show Highlights Veterans. 2020-08-28. NBC Bay Area. en-US.
  5. Web site: Beyond the Page: Rodney Ewing . 2020-08-28 . Brooklyn Art Library / The Sketchbook Project . en-US.
  6. Web site: Berkeley Art Center's Agility Projects Support Daring Reflections on Identity . 2020-08-28 . KQED . en-us.
  7. Web site: Pleasant . Amy . artist . ContributorSeattle visual . writer . 2016-10-13 . Expanding a Difficult Dialogue: San Francisco Artist Focuses on Issues Affecting the African American Community . 2020-08-28 . HuffPost . en.
  8. Web site: 2020-07-27 . Museum of African Diaspora hosts artists in studios . 2020-09-24 . The San Francisco Examiner . en-US.
  9. Web site: 2019-06-21 . RODNEY EWING EXHIBITS AT THE MoAD . 2020-09-23 . Artiholics . en-US.
  10. Web site: Rodney Ewing . 2022-12-29 . Harvard Art Museums . en.
  11. Web site: Hall . Phil . 2022-07-12 . Fairfield University Art Museum acquires 40 works from Brandywine Workshop and Archives . 2022-12-29 . Westfair Communications . en-US.
  12. Web site: In The Artist's Studio Rodney Ewing – MoAD Museum of African Diaspora. 2020-08-28. www.moadsf.org.
  13. Web site: 2020-05-22. Exposing and Empowering Personal Agency. 2020-08-28. YBCA. en-US.
  14. Web site: Close to Home . 2021-03-10 . SFMOMA . en-US.
  15. Web site: 2020-09-26. SFMOMA Set To Reopen Next Week With New Large-Scale Wall Projects, Pandemic-Inspired Artwork. 2020-10-02. SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports. en.
  16. Web site: Rodney Ewing. 2020-08-28. Headlands Center for the Arts. en.
  17. Web site: 2019-06-21. RODNEY EWING EXHIBITS AT THE MoAD. 2020-08-28. Artiholics. en-US.
  18. Web site: MacFayden. Rhiannon Evans. Episode 7.5: Rodney Ewing and Indira Allegra with Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen. 2020-08-28. Art Practical. en.
  19. Web site: 2020-07-27. Museum of African Diaspora hosts artists in studios. 2020-09-23. The San Francisco Examiner. en-US.
  20. Web site: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts : Residency : By Year : 2019 : Rodney Ewing. 2020-08-28. www.bemiscenter.org. en.
  21. Web site: San Francisco Arts Commission . 2020-08-28 . www.sfartscommission.org.
  22. Web site: Kost . Ryan . 2018-03-21 . Artists examine sanctuary cities in new SF Arts Commission series . 2020-10-02 . SFGate . en-US.
  23. Web site: Recology. Rodney Ewing. 2020-08-28. Recology. en-US.
  24. Web site: 2014-12-30 . "Days and Occasions", by March Artist-in-Residence Rodney Ewing . 2020-08-28 . de Young . en.
  25. Web site: Wenus . Laura . 2016-04-19 . Amid Ailing Arts Scene, Pacific Felt Factory Blooms . 2022-12-29 . Mission Local . en-US.
  26. Web site: Rodney Ewing. 2020-08-28. SEE(D) Artist Series. en-US.
  27. Web site: BETWEEN WORLDS. 2020-08-28. arc gallery & studios. en.
  28. Web site: Emerging Artist Reception: Longitude + Latitude by Rodney Ewing - MoAD Museum of African Diaspora. 2020-08-28. www.moadsf.org.
  29. Web site: Rodney Ewing: Artist You Should Know. 2020-08-28. Broke-Ass Stuart's Website. en-US.

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