Diamond StingilySUPERMUNDANE, 2024Nine-color screenprint on Stonehenge paper24 x 15 inches (61 x 38.1 cm)Framed: 24 1/4 x 15 1/4 x 1 inches (61 x 38.7 x 2.5 cm)Edition of 20, 6 APSigned, dated, and numbered rectoPrinted by Du-Good Press, New YorkPublished by 52 Walker Primarily working in sculpture, installation, video, and text, Diamond Stingily (b.1990) creates spare compositions that reflect on themes such as memory, history, community, and identity by calling attention to signifiers such as race, class, and place. The artist often uses found materials in her practice, devising a visual language that describes both what is familiar and new, and exterior and interior. In the artist’s solo presentation Orgasms Happened Here at 52 Walker, she has installed a series of site-specific architectural interventions that evoke the colors, scale, and ambience of suburban American households and places of worship. Taking the form of a blue-paned window, Diamond Stingily’s SUPERMUNDANE (2024) is a new print that recalls the windows of Stingily’s great-great-aunt’s Baptist church in Chicago, where the artist spent time as a child. Operating at a remove from the religious worship, Stingily draws a parallel between the church’s urban community space and the sanctuary of the suburban adolescent bedroom. In addition to photographs of Stingily’s great-great-aunt in front of her church’s windows, the print includes glimpses into the artist’s current Brooklyn surroundings: a local construction site, a proverb hung outside one of the borough’s many Baptist churches. Amalgamating the personal and the elusive, this print serves as a subtle record of the restrictions between the domestic and the public.
