Elbow Room
David Shrobe
Contemporary Art
Elbow Room centers on a dignified Black sitter whose clothing and posture recall traditions of early colonial portraiture in the Americas. David Shrobe creates layered explorations of Black identity and diaspora using repurposed materials. The salvaged wooden headboard, for instance, simultaneously interrupts and accents the image and perhaps alludes to the erasure of African American subjects from whitewashed narratives of U.S. history.
MEDIUM
Oil, fabric, wood headboard, chair parts, window molding and mixed media
DATES
2018
DIMENSIONS
67 × 57 × 4 in. (170.2 × 144.8 × 10.2 cm)
(show scale)
ACCESSION NUMBER
2018.30.1
CREDIT LINE
William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
David Shrobe (American, born 1974). Elbow Room, 2018. Oil, fabric, wood headboard, chair parts, window molding and mixed media, 67 × 57 × 4 in. (170.2 × 144.8 × 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund, 2018.30.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2018.30.1_PS11.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 2018.30.1_PS11.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2021
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