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She began making paintings of nude black men, and here her liberal-arts education “kicked in,” she says. She researched extensively, absorbing how the black male body had been sexualized and criminalized in this country. Her paintings would not show her subjects’ genitals, she decided. Skin tones merged pinks with browns, greens, and purples; perceiving blackness, her work implies, is not a simple matter. Above all, the emphasis is on individuality and humanity. In her large-scale portraits, subjects look you in the eye. Three years later, when she read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, a literary letter from the Official Arm Heart Dallas Basketball T-Shirt to his young son, advising him on the beauty and danger of his skin color, she felt that Coates had “put words to something that I was doing in the paintings.”
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