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Kenturah Davis

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Deitchhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/kenturah-davis
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Kasminhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/kenturah-davis
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Yale-Mfahttps://www.art.yale.edu/about/people/alumni#kenturah-davis
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About

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Kenturah Davis builds figurative portraits by stamping individual letters and words directly onto paper and canvas, accumulating text into densely layered graphite and oil-based images. The written word functions simultaneously as mark-making unit and conceptual material, collapsing the boundary between language and likeness into a single gesture. Her work has been exhibited at the California African American Museum.

Source: Deitch · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

2023 · Illustrated book with 248 letterpress pages, 4 fold-out lithographs, printed endsheets, and running footer; hardcover, bound in blue cloth, with foil-stamped titling on cover and spine; presented in a slipcase with blue cloth edges, spine titling, and printed paper side panels

book, closed: 8 3/4 × 6 7/8 × 1 3/8" (22.3 × 17.5 × 3.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Contending with Contingency III

2021 · Carbon pencil over debossed text with graphite on wove paper, in nine parts

87 1/2 in. × 11 ft. 1/2 in. (222.3 × 336.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Contending with Contingency I

2021 · Carbon pencil, pencil, and blind debossing on nine sheets of paper

132 × 81" (335.3 × 205.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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The Met
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