Shelby Head
Providence, RI
My art practice challenges social and linguistic constructs in the United States through precisely crafted artworks organized into collections.
MessageThis sculpture, Am I That Name?, gathers a cluster of black, faceless figures—identical yet slightly angled—standing on a wallpapered tile lifted by a worn industrial jack. Their stances evoke searching or questioning, hands raised to brows as if scanning horizons. The piece destabilizes fixed notions of “women” by questioning identity as socially constructed, intersecting with race, class, sexuality, and geography. Elevated yet precarious, the figures suggest that categories of gender are contingent, shifting, and historically fixed.
- Collections: Am I that Name?
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