Author: Richards, MichaelMichael Richards was born in Brooklyn and raised in Jamaica. Integral to a generation of Black artists emerging in the 1990s, Richards’ work gestures toward reprieve from social injustices, often in the context of the historic and ongoing oppression of Black people. Richards’ exploration of freedom and escape centred on themes of flight and aviation. An invaluable resource on the artist, amplified by essays by Alex Fialho and Melissa Levin, writer Edwidge Danticat, and curator Franklin Sirmans. He engaged with this through the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen, Greek mythology, Christianity and African and African American folklore. His nascent career was cut short on September 11, 2001 when he was killed while working in his Lower Manhattan Cultural Council studio in the World Trade Center.This monograph, published on the occasion of the major touring retrospective exhibition Are You Down?, centres his life and work by attending to the historical and contemporary significance of his practice. ISBN 9781954939042. CARA/MOCA North Miami. hb. 232 pages. 60 colour, 40 b/w ills. 27.3 x 19.7 cm.available
