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Renée
Cox
School of Visual Arts, New York
Renée received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University. She is
currently a participant at the Whitney Independent Study Program. Ms.
Cox, who is of African-American and Jamaican decent was raised in New York
and has lived in Jamaica, Italy and France. Renée is
a former fashion photographer and has had her work featured in American
and European fashion magazines. Her work has been in The Whitney
Retrospective, Jean-Michel Basquiat catalogue and The Colour of Fashion, Kodak-Rizzoli
publications. She was recently in a group show with African-American
Women photographers at the Selena Gallery Long Island University in Brooklyn.
In a recent exhibition entitledThe Crossed Masks, Return to the
Source Show, was rooted in African history, particularly
that of the "Three Rivers" section in lower Nigeria. Renée's
work incorporates features from Nigerian masks of the Cross River in a
photographic collage. "These masks," says Cox, "represent
a return to the source and yet are a presentation of new imagery – they
refute the term primitive." She considers this work as
an acknowledgment to the ancestors that made it possible. |
