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LnS Gallery is proud to announce the inclusion of represented artist, T Eliott Mansa (
@teliottmansa ) into the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (
@pamm ). The impacting assemblage, ‘Victory of John Henry,’ (2020), has been acquired by the PAMM through the generous donation of Max König
‘Victory of John Henry,’ (2020) references the legendary race of the African American folk hero, tasked with hammering a steel drill into rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel, against a steam drill machine. This narrative connects the importance of the role of African American labor to Western expansion and the financing of the industrial revolution. ‘Victory of John Henry,’ (2020), consists of materials associated with mourning in Black Atlantic culture, such as sea shells, teddy bears, dolls, plastic flowers and foliage. Through this material usage, Mansa acknowledges and centers the memory of the ancestors as well as those lost to state violence and social injustice.
T Eliott Mansa (‘1977, Miami, FL) is a multidisciplinary artist creating assemblages, paintings, and sculptures that incorporate the aesthetic of amalgamation found in visionary Southern vernacular sculpture. Mansa’s intention is to trigger the radical imagination of viewers, encouraging them to subvert the status quo and find socio-political agency in their own communities.
Mansa attended the Yale School of Art (2013) and received his MFA from CUNY Hunter College (2018). In 2019, he received a Creator Award from Oolite Arts and the Miami Foundation. Previous residencies include the five-week Home + Away residency through Oolite Arts at Artpace in San Antonio, Texas (March 2021), and studio at Oolite Arts in Miami Beach, FL (2020 – 2022). He is currently an Artist in Residence at Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, FL.
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