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KJR Studios

Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner* from East Palo Alto, CA

Brooklyn | Berlin | Johannesburg



© Kameelah Janan Rasheed. All rights reserved.

Title

Unsewn Time

Type

Solo

Year

2023

Materials/Size

Video (4 count); Vinyl (1 count); Archival Inkjet Print (1 count); Stone lithograph (1 count); Photographic lithograph with chine collé (1 count); Painting-Photograph (Large) (2 count): Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, India ink, oil stick, Vaseline, 70% rubbing alcohol, shellac, Rhoplex, PVA adhesive, charcoal, acrylic, black iron oxide powder, luggage compression as the paper traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, humidity in a third-floor apartment in Oakdene, Johannesburg (elevation: 5617 feet) on December 31, 2022, fluctuating body weight, skin oil, kosher rock salt, and time; Painting-Photograph (Small Studies) (7 count): Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, cellophane tape, India ink, oil stick, Vaseline, 70% rubbing alcohol, vaseline, kosher rock salt, shellac

16 new works

Venue

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL




Surrender I
2022–23

Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, India ink, oil stick, Vaseline, 70% rubbing alcohol, shellac, Rhoplex, PVA adhesive, charcoal, acrylic, black iron oxide powder, luggage compression as the paper traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, humidity in a third-floor apartment in Oakdene, Johannesburg (elevation: 5617 feet) on December 31, 2022, fluctuating body weight, skin oil, kosher rock salt, and time



Surrender II
2022–23

Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, India ink, oil stick, Vaseline, 70% rubbing alcohol, shellac, Rhoplex, PVA adhesive, charcoal, acrylic, black iron oxide powder, luggage compression as the paper traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, humidity in a third-floor apartment in Oakdene, Johannesburg (elevation: 5617 feet) on December 31, 2022, fluctuating body weight, skin oil, kosher rock salt, and time


Study I - Study VII
2022–23



Study I—expire/cut/dip/pull/ stack/dip/pull/stack/repeat often/hide (we collapsed into a suitable form: a universe) 2022–23
Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, and photographic developer
Study II—fold/fold/fold/fold/ tape/dip/dip/shuffle/pull/cover with unread books (the hedging moment when the sky can’t decide its color and there is just enough light to see a sunchoke stuttering with the wind)
2022–23
Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, and cellophane tapeStudy III—crumble/crumble/ crumble/crumble/mark/ mark/dip/dip/pull/cross the Atlantic/elevate (a leak from an unknown source)
2022–23
Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, and oil stick
Study IV—crumble/crumble/ crumble/crumble/fold/mark/ drip/drip/drip/mark/dip/dip/ pull/shellac (a slow gathering of fussy ghosts)
2022–23
Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, India ink, oil stick, Vaseline, 70% rubbing alcohol, and shellacStudy V—fold/slather/slather/ draw/dip/dip/dip/pull/cover with Xerox paper (each room its own sentence)
2022–23
Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, oil stick, and VaselineStudy VI—tear/tear/slather/ slather/salt/slather/salt/dip/ dip/pull/stack/cover with fixer residue (touch the sticky edge)
2022–23
Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, and kosher rock saltStudy VII—crumble/crumble/ crumble/crumble/fold/mark/ fold/lean/drip/drip/drip (the ____ are creeping in)
2022–23
Light-sensitive gelatin silver paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, kosher rock salt, and oil stick
Reading Against the Grain
2023
24-gauge steel plate, hand coated with a digital ground (inkjet aqueous pigment ink receptor), and archival pigment print, with spray varnish and other hand-applied finishes


Reading With the Grain
2023
24-gauge steel plate, hand coated with a digital ground (inkjet aqueous pigment ink receptor), and archival pigment print, with spray varnish and other hand-applied finishes



Keeping Count (Annotated)
2021–23

Single-channel black-and-white video, sound;
9 min., 37 sec.
Original score by Th&o, Johannesburg




1984/2023
1984–2023
Inkjet prints and vinyl




981
2022–23
Single-channel color and black-and-white video, silent
3 min., 29 sec.



Good Morning, Has Your Body Reached a Consensus?
2022–23
Single-channel color and black-and-white video, silent 
2 min., 27 sec.

She Gives Me Surprises
2023
Single-channel color and black-and-white video, silent
59 sec.