The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Eric Garner Projection, Richmond, Virginia
2020
(American, b. 1982)
Image: 36.5 x 45.7 cm (14 3/8 x 18 in.); Paper: 40.7 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
For two months in 2020, the faces of Black citizens killed by police were projected on a monument to Confederate general Robert E. Lee.Description
New York City police suspected Eric Garner on July 17, 2014, of selling single cigarettes from packs without tax stamps. While arresting him, an officer put him in a prohibited chokehold and Garner died. Video of this incident sparked a national debate about police use of inappropriate force. Garner’s was one of a number of faces of Black victims of police violence that Richmond artists Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui projected onto a monument to General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate States Army.- 2020-2021Kris Graves (the artist) [1982-], New York, NY2021(Sasha Wolf Projects, New York, NY)June 7, 2021The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.106.7