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Artworks
Jamaal Peterman USA, b. 1990
Parallel Parking , 2021Oil, sand, vinyl glitter on canvas38 x 48 x 2 in
96.5 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm8128Further images
This painting by Jamaal Peterman is part of a body of work in which the artist examines racially biased governmental systems that suppress the accumulation of Black wealth. Written on...This painting by Jamaal Peterman is part of a body of work in which the artist examines racially biased governmental systems that suppress the accumulation of Black wealth.
Written on the canvas are the names of two crucial court decisions in the United States: Buchanan v. Warley (1917), in which The United States Supreme Court declared the unconstitutionality of racially biased zoning; and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), in which The U.S. Supreme Court established the unconstitutionality of U.S. state laws that segregate public schools according to race.
Peterman deploys abstract forms and patterns in his paintings to indicate symbolic content. For example, he describes the parallel lines in this composition as representative of railroad tracks, which “separate black communities from white communities.”
