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  • Through her photography-based art, Tawny Chatmon (b. 1979, Tokyo, Japan) addresses racist myths and elevates cultural truths. She centers and celebrates Black childhood and family bonds while also recontextualizing dehumanizing dolls, figurines, and food histories. Chatmon intensifies and embellishes her large-scale photographs through both digital techniques and meticulous handmade elements. She elongates the bodies of her models, heightens their features, and adds mosaic-like and embroidered patterns. Presenting these powerful works in ornate frames, Chatmon honors the preciousness of her subjects.

    In a mixed-media artwork, a dark-skinned girl with pigtails wears a gold sleeveless dress and stands against a gold background.

    Tawny Chatmon, I Was Born to Stand in the Light, from the series “Remnants,” 2020-22; 24-karat gold leaf, paper, acrylic, and mixed media on archival pigment print, 63 x 41 in. (framed); Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Myrtis