Offramp Gallery is pleased to present Othello's Ghost, a solo exhibition of works by Mark Steven Greenfield, from July 12 - August 23, 2009. The opening reception will be Sunday, July 12, 2009 from 2-5pm.

African American artist Mark Steven Greenfield is both fascinated and repelled by images of Blackface Minstrelsy, the predominant form of American stage entertainment for almost a hundred years. Greenfield appropriates the images of white entertainers in blackface, strips them from their original context, in some instances superimposing text, to create works that are contemporary in aesthetic and provocative in content.

The exhibition is comprised of works from previous series of Greenfield's as well as new work. The show's title, Othello's Ghost, refers to one of the earliest known uses of changing skin color for theater, Shakespeare's Othello. In his artist's statement about Othello's Ghost, Greenfield writes, "in my most recent work I’m examining the effect these images have had on the collective subconscious of the American psyche. The most obvious stereotypical caricatures in this exhibition exist on the conscious level and serve as a starting point for this exploration."

Exhibition co-curated by Jane Chafin and Anita Bunn.

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