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Toisha Tucker, the 2018-19 Alice C. Cole '42 Fellow, is a New York-based conceptual interdisciplinary artist. Their work responds to contemporary events and often addresses issues of race, gender, identity, technology, human empathy, and activism. Many of Tucker's pieces are process-based, and some are long-term, ongoing efforts. Content and subject matter drive their choice of media, which often differ from project to project.
Some of Us Were Brave
Jewett Art Gallery
Jan. 20 - March 6, 2020
What can art do in a time of political, societal, and actual violence? In Toisha Tucker's practice, art and activism are two sides of the same coin. With an acute awareness of issues surrounding race, gender, economic disparities, and the institutionalization of prejudice and hatred in America today, Tucker's work speaks up and speaks out. Tucker makes use of a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, found objects, text, photography, collage, and printmaking to address subjects that they hold close to their heart. They pair materials densely packed with meaning with textual works that exist in the space between the didactic and the poetic. Citing both historical references and contemporary events, the artwork in this exhibition illuminates the traumas upon which America was built, and the ways those traumas continue to manifest to this day.
Some of Us Were Brave featured artwork created during Tucker's Cole fellowship year. These pieces were exhibited alongside earlier works, many of which reacted directly to and are contextualized by the events of the 2016 US presidential election.
For a more complete account of artwork in this exhibition, and for more details on individual works, please see Some of Us Were Brave on the Wellesley Art Department's Exhibitions website.
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