The Washington Post, November 4th, 2004
The paintings of iona rozeal brown arrive hooting and thumping and talking 'bout a revolution. The title of her latest show at G Fine Art, "a3 the revolution: televised, terrorized, sexualized," announces Big Ideas at Work. We've come to expect such things: Her recent and meteoric rise in the contemporary art world was fueled by a series of paintings depicting a cultural cross-pollination between Asian youth and African American hip-hop. Those "a3 blackface" paintings began appearing around 2002 (brown's works function under an umbrella term of her own devising: "a3," which stands for "afro-as...
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