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- Ulysses Jenkins, the pioneering Los Angeles-born video artist whose avant-garde compositions embodied Black experimentalism, has died.
- He was 79. Jenkins’ death was confirmed by his alma mater Otis College, where he studied under renowned painter and printmaker Charles White in the late 1970s and returned as an instructor years later.
- The Los Angeles art and design school shared a statement from the Charles White Archive, which said, “Jenkins had a profound impact on contemporary art and media practices.” “A trailblazing figure in Black experimental video, he was widely recognized for works that used image, sound, and cultural iconography to examine representation, race, gender, ritual, history, and power,” the statement said.
- Advertisement Entertainment & Arts Art godfather Ulysses Jenkins finally gets his close-up with a Hammer show of his video art ‘Without Your Interpretation’ is the first major retrospective of the L. A.-born Jenkins, whose prescient videos touch on race and other the issues of our age.
