Photo credit: Mary Kang
Craft Research Fund—Artist Fellowship
2023
Dana Davenport is an interdisciplinary artist, who shifts between installation, sculpture, video, and performance. Within her practice, Davenport addresses the complexities that surround interminority racism as a foundation for envisioning her own and the collective futurity of Black and Asian peoples. Davenport's research titled “Dana's Beauty Supply: Research,” examines Black hair and hair care as a material that binds Black Americans and Korean Americans through the beauty supply industry, an industry that is overwhelmingly Korean-owned with a primarily Black customer base.
Selected works
Box Braid Chandelier #3, 블랙파워 (beullaegpawo)-Black Power 2021 30 x 24in Steel, plastic beads, modeling clay, synthetic hair from Hair Style 21(Online) Image courtesy of the Artist
Box Braid Chandelier #4, 여름 훈녀 (yeoleum hunnyeo)-Hot Girl Summer 2021 38 x 19in Steel, plastic beads, modeling clay, synthetic hair from Raisa Beauty Supply (Brooklyn, NY) Image courtesy of the Artist
Photo credit: Mary Kang
Box Braid Chandelier #5, 한 (han)-collective grief and resentment we carry because of oppression 2022 29 x 23in Steel, plastic beads, modeling clay, synthetic hair from Paradise of Eden Beauty Supply (Brooklyn, NY) Image courtesy of the ArtistDana’s Beauty Supply ~and relaxation space~
2021 Installation at Recess Art (Brooklyn, NY) Photo credit: Mary Kang
2021 Installation at Recess Art (Brooklyn, NY) Photo credit: Mary Kang
2021 Installation at Recess Art (Brooklyn, NY) Photo credit: Mary Kang
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