ARTIST TALK WITH NAJEE DORSEY
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Event lasts 2 hours
The process by which Dorsey makes his art is rooted in the tradition of montage and mixed media. This gives clues to African and African-American traditions that others have spoken of and that should be examined in Dorsey’s work. His creating of art is rooted in multiple medias and layers; aesthetic altars of experience that hold stories and prayers and spiritual powers are part of a deep and long process. This philosophy of the art of the crossroads has existed in our Osirian and Kongo myths, our Ifa and Voudun informed spiritual practices and art making, in our transatlantic lives, in the montage of our multi-dimensional existence in America, our music making, our quilt-making, in the making of our very bodies and our culture rooted in innovation, collage, montage and sample.
Dorsey has also taken this many rooted approach to art creation and tranferred it into his newest medium “Photomontage”, which typically exist as scarce limited editon or 1/1 works of art.