The paintings and drawings presented here in this exhibit are in many respects a new phase both conceptually and techinically for my work . In concept, standard American beliefs of racial identity and unabashed sensuality share an ambigous coalescence. The figures represented in this series are symbols of either scorn or change. Their existence often times appears private and intimate, allowing for many associaions and assumptions to occur. Whether painted or drawn the central subject(s) of each peice is accompanied by an aggregate of quasi-related found imges. Overall, the work presented here is a "layered mosiac" of ideas as well as processes that (re)represents the advertised image in a more thought provoking light.

Ricardo Francis
June 2002

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