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The Matriarch's Rhapsody, 2012

  • Artist

    Jacolby Satterwhite

  • Title

    The Matriarch's Rhapsody

  • Date

    2012

  • Medium

    HD digital video, color 3-D animation

  • Dimensions

    TRT: 00:43:47

  • Edition

    Ed. 1/8

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee

  • Object Number

    2013.4

Jacolby Satterwhite’s mother, Patricia Satterwhite, would often sketch her own inventions and unique objects, as if designing them for QVC infomercials. Featuring the artist’s three-dimensional renderings of these objects, The Matriarch's Rhapsody reimagines and documents Patricia’s inventions. The objects are accompanied by her original sketches, family photographs, and the artist’s own computer-animated performance work. Satterwhite often inserts himself into his work, pointing to relationships between individual and collective histories, as well as real and imagined experiences.


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Artworks

The Matriarch's Rhapsody, 2012

  • Artist

    Jacolby Satterwhite

  • Title

    The Matriarch's Rhapsody

  • Date

    2012

  • Medium

    HD digital video, color 3-D animation

  • Dimensions

    TRT: 00:43:47

  • Edition

    Ed. 1/8

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; Museum purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition Committee

  • Object Number

    2013.4

Jacolby Satterwhite’s mother, Patricia Satterwhite, would often sketch her own inventions and unique objects, as if designing them for QVC infomercials. Featuring the artist’s three-dimensional renderings of these objects, The Matriarch's Rhapsody reimagines and documents Patricia’s inventions. The objects are accompanied by her original sketches, family photographs, and the artist’s own computer-animated performance work. Satterwhite often inserts himself into his work, pointing to relationships between individual and collective histories, as well as real and imagined experiences.


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