Dana King

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art,artist, sculptor, public art, figurative art, gallery, painting, drawing, oakland artists, | DANA KING ART View fullsize IN MY STUDIO WITH “GUIDED BY JUSTICE” IN PROGRESS About Dana King is a classical figurative sculptor who creates public monuments of Black Bodies in Bronze. She studies the strength and resilience of African descendants and creates pieces made of clay with her hands that are then cast in bronze. King’s work explores a subversive concept in a traditional form. She rescues everyday Black American heroines/heroes from unjust obscurity and then ennobles their tenacity and courage through figurative sculpture, recontextualizing a medium often used to elevate Eurocentric and white supremacist statuary. Across countless generations African elders and their descendants ha

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