James Drake: Tongue-Cut Sparrows
Language: English
Published by Radius Books, 2024
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- Title
- James Drake: Tongue-Cut Sparrows
- Author
- Drake, James
- Publisher
- Radius Books
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798890180803
James Drake’s multi-disciplinary art practice centers around the human condition and systems of language to investigate temporal-spatial relations and the cyclical nature of history. During his time living in El Paso, Texas, issues related to the USA/Mexico border became a focal point in his work and the broader universal context he explores.
The project began in the mid-’90s when Drake observed women standing on a sidewalk outside the El Paso County Jail using a system of sign language to communicate with incarcerated family members and loved ones. Fascinated by this inventive form of gestural communication, Drake became curious if the women could integrate quotes from literature and poetry into their sign language. They agreed to let Drake record their visits on video and worked with him in selecting texts to sign from the writings of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, Chicano-Apache American poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, Cormac McCarthy, as well as William Blake, William Shakespeare, and Dante Alighieri. The series evolved into a multi-channel video work and spans decades of poems, photographs, printmaking and large-scale charcoal drawings.
Works from the Tongue-Cut Sparrows series have been shown internationally in major institutions, including the Blanton Museum of Art, Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery), Denver Art Museum, High Museum of Art, SITE Santa Fe, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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About the Author
James Drake (b. 1946, Lubbock, Texas) currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. He received his BFA and MFA from the Art Center College of Design. Drake is the recipient of numerous awards, which include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, two NEA Grants, and a Nancy Graves Award for Visual Arts. In 2007, his work was featured at the 52nd International Venice Biennale, and in 2000, at the Whitney Biennial. Drake’s work can be seen in many permanent collections, such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Blanton Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; San Antonio Museum of Art; Art Museum of South Texas; El Paso Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; New Mexico Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Whitney Museum of American Art; Brooklyn Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Tongue-Cut Sparrows is Drake’s third publication with Radius, after 1242 (2015) and Red Drawings and White Cut-Outs (2012).
Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano descent. While serving a five-year sentence in a maximum security prison, he learned to read and began to turn his life around, eventually emerging as a prolific artist of the spoken and written word.
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