Friday, May 23, 7–10PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St., LA CA 90065
Info on our space
Max Participants: 50
Free
Join us to celebrate the publication of Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation by Tiffany E. Barber, Assistant Professor of African American Art at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In the wake of contemporary art’s post-Black turn and the mainstreaming of intersectionality, Undesirability and Her Sisters charts a new genealogy of Black women’s art that exposes the unfinished project of racial and gender empowerment in the twenty-first century. Barber argues that Black women’s social positions at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class are inherently queer, thus spurring unexpected aesthetic strategies that throw into high relief the ethical terrain of what it means to be Black and a woman now. Barber will be joined in conversation about the book and its themes by artist Gabrielle Civil.
After the talk there will be food and drinks and dancing with music by DJ NØ ËL.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Tiffany E. Barber is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized scholar, curator, and critic whose writing and expert commentary appears in top-tier academic journals, popular media outlets, and award-winning documentaries. Her work focuses on visual and performing artists of the Black world. Assistant Professor of African American Art at UCLA, she is the recipient of the Smithsonian’s 2022 National Portrait Gallery Director’s Essay Prize and author of Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation (NYUP, May 2025).