VANESSA GERMAN

Vanessa German is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the founder of Love Front Porch and the ARThouse, a community arts initiative for the children of her historic Homewood neighborhood. Her work is in private and public collections including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Progressive Art Collection, David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, Snite Museum of Art, among others. German’s fine art work has been exhibited widely, most recently at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; the Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; and in the traveling exhibition State of The Art: Discovering American Art Now, which originated at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. Her work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered and in The Huffington Post, O Magazine and Essence Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant.

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Resilience, 2013, Mixed-media assemblage 55 x 21 x 11 3/4 inches, © Vanessa German, courtesy of the artist and Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.

So many many dead black bodies, or, the why niggas always gotta be shootin' when they get mad, or take your beef outside, or, the trauma stays and stays and stays, or once again, the derivative ____ makes a mockable, public spectacle of her grief, 2014, Mixed-media assemblage, 48 x 60 x 30 inches, © Vanessa German, courtesy of the artist and Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.

Still I Rise Fleischmann's Active Yeast, 2011, Mixed media assemblage, 30 1/2 × 13 × 13 inches, © Vanessa German, courtesy of the artist and Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York

Reality Check: To Call the Police Use this Phone, 2013, Mixed media assemblage 46 x 24 x 14 inches, © Vanessa German, courtesy of the artist and Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York.