February 2012
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new site up : MKAWSTUDIO →
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December 2011
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November 2011
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August 2011
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New video - Projected during a performance piece with Jamal Jordan at Flux Thursday salon evening, August 11, 2011 at Flux Factory in Queens, New York. I pieced together Youtube-sourced footage of incidents of police brutality with footage of Sun Ra and his Arkestra to reflect on movement through time and space as it is restricted and as it is freely expressed.
July 2011
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HERE I MUST PARAPHRASE BILLIE HOLIDAY
& ASK AM I PHTHALO BLUE ?
a transfer
two dollars and three fifths of a human being the inability of currency to encompass a human curtailing of movement, confinement, possibilities curbed by slips of paper purporting to determine who & what can move face-down on asphalt, he could not move you see even cell phone cameras are competing with allegations from the false pulpit of power seized through metal as if the spray of water...
May 2011
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April 2011
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Arrivals/Departures and Miatta Kawinzi →
contactprojectjournal:
Tonight, CONTACT visited the exhibition Arrivals/Departures. The work of artist Miatta Kawinzi was striking and worth a nod. Though an artist who is known for exercising a myriad of media, in this case Kawinzi made use of pastels and raw materials to build out brightly colored drawings on found material surfaces, fastened to the wall with flat-faced silver screws.
The...
March 2011
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“Where There is Earth” film as painting, self in process, gender blossom feat. J. André
… In Miatta Kawinizi’s Madamsieurmoiselle, the artist utilizes collage and...
– PRESS: “Ladies First, A Celebration of Black Female Expression: Beyond 28 Days” by Kate Wadkins for Sadie Magazine
February 2011
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to kindle
they say the books too should be digital, binary code suspended in space like some kind of code out of word the speed of speech is coded, screen-coated, light pollution in an endless night. as figures of la nuit, we emerge from the psychosomatic forest, from between gray columns, out of the margins of the white page, s k i p p ...
…Kawinzi’s painting suggests the interwoven pasts of ancient African art,...
– PRESS : “Tangled Histories” in the Indypendent