A Model of Coloured, High Art, "20 x 16"
Cuts and Beats is the title of a body of work in which I subvert historical images. Like publicity stills from Black artists in the Vaudeville and Minstrel era, by transforming them using techniques of photo collage, installation, and performance combined with my photographs. I think of this process of cutting, altering, reassembling, and bringing images into different contexts as a metaphor for the complex histories of Black Americans. The newly built images, look back to often racist representations, and much like memory, recede to a current, self-possessed, and subversive imagery, each influencing and dictating to the other, serving as a remix of past and present culture.”
BodyDown to LoveTown, Montage, Pigment Print "20 x 16"
The Other Place, Pigment Print, Montage "40 x 30"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. The Fantasy Island on Stony, Pigment Print, Montage, "60 x 40"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Consolation Prize for Master Juba, Assemblage
antique gramophone horn planted in African purple heartwood.
Cecil McDonald, Jr. single shuffle _double shuffle, vinyl, charcoal wall rubbing
Cecil McDonald, Jr. High Brown Babies Ball, Pigment Print, Montage "20 x 16"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. My Dear Margret, Pigment Print, Montage, "40 x 30"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Burning Spear Guys and Gals, Pigment Print, Montage "40 x 30"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Bandana Land, Pigment Print, Montage "40 x 30"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Natural Born Hustler, Pigment Print, Montage "20 x 16"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Dance Children Dance Electric, Pigment Print, Montage "40 x 30"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. East of The Ryan, Pigment Print, Montage "40 x 30"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Kinky, Pigment Print, Montage "20 x 16"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Let It Alone Watch it Work, Pigment Print, Montage "20 x 16"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Man the Minstrel, Pigment Print, Montage "20 x 16"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Walker_Stepper_Boppers, Pigment Print, Montage "40 x 30"
Cecil McDonald, Jr. Swing Ma Jet Black Queen, Pigment Print, Montage "20 x 16'