Smithsonian American Art Museum's 2021 Charles C. Eldredge Prize
for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art Michael Ray Charles
is the most comprehensive presentation yet of the work of an artist
who rose to prominence in the 1990s for works that engaged American
stereotypes of African Americans. With a background in advertising
and an archivist's inquisitiveness, Charles developed an artistic
practice that made startling use of found images and offered
critiques of the narratives they fostered. Immersing readers in the
imagination of this daring painter, Michael Ray Charles celebrates
and contextualizes a singular, major figure in the art world. Art
historian Cherise Smith collaborated with the artist to curate
nearly one hundred color plates documenting nearly thirty years of
visual art. These plates are framed by an interview with the artist
and by Smith's own deep interpretive essay on Charles's work. Smith
explores topics ranging from the controversy resulting from
Charles's provocative appropriations of stereotypical racial
material to his techniques of sampling from popular culture, and
from his commentaries on African American men and sports to his
work with director Spike Lee on Bamboozled. Both clear-eyed and
complex, this retrospective demonstrates the significant role that
Michael Ray Charles's work has played in defining what art is
today.
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