Article: Hank Willis Thomas at Lisa Dent.

Hank Willis Thomas's exhibition "Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America" was a poignant and layered exploration of racial typing in our era of hypercapitalism. Consisting of 10 largescale Lightjet prints, a sculptural pendant and a short video, the show presented a cohesive series of meditations on the historical formation and dissemination of stereotypes. The prints are reproductions of familiar magazine ad campaigns from the 1970s to the present in which African-Americans figure prominently. Willis Thomas has digitally removed the corporate logos from the ads, allowing their ideological underpinnings to come through unencumbered by overbearing product ...

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