About the Work
Karl, the Karakul King. Former soldier of the Sugsrcane Army, now defected to the Frenglish Republic. A wealthy merchant in the employ of the Frenglish East India Company in Kabul. Also, an initiate in the Order of Khnemu.
Umar Rashid is a storyteller who uses his visual works as vehicles for contemporary mythmaking and transformative relearning. Blending factual histories with the fictional details of the Frenglish Empire (1658-1880), Rashid illuminates the intersecting realities of colonial forces and indigenous peoples, crafting alternative narratives that give way to freshly imagined futures.
Our series of four print editions created by Rashid is a perfect illustration of how his practice conceptually elevates an imagined world by utilizing consistent iconography to weave symbolic thread through past, present, and future. In his own words:
"The main focus of my work is the stories and reinvented histories of people of color, who are oftentimes marginalized and omitted from the historical record, and the intricacies of race, gender, class, and overall power in the colonial world. In the process of writing and illustrating this history, I’ve created alternative narratives that reference the main narrative and focus on the cosmologies of the empires, with a focus on religion and spirituality. And the common thread throughout the work — aside from the written narrative — is iconography as a place marker between past, present, and future. This element is realized in the oeuvre in the “Imperial Tattoo System” — a classifying mechanism I use to define and differentiate the characters in the story — and within the maps, and cosmological diagrams. The narrative is also massively informed by the hip hop culture of my youth (golden age), various (modern and ancient) pop culture references, gang and prison culture, and revolutionary movements throughout time."
Artist Biography
Umar Rashid (b. 1976, Chicago, IL) is the civilian name of the artist Frohawk Two Feathers. Rashid has held solo exhibitions at Almine Rech (Paris), Cokkie Snoei (Rotterdam), Blum and Poe (Los Angeles), and Half Gallery (New York). Select group exhibitions include presentations at Isaac Bell House (Newport) curated by Alison Gingeras & Dodie Kazanjian, Galerie Droste (Paris), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Transformative Arts Now (Los Angeles), Tiwani Contemporary (London), New Image Art (Los Angeles), Johannes Vogt (New York), Jeffery Deitch (Los Angeles), Studio d Arte Raffaeli (Trento), and the Cape Town Art Fair at the Tyburn Gallery (Cape Town). Rashid's work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Conseil Regional de la Guadeloupe, Hudson River Museum (Yonkers), Jorge Pérez Collection (Miami), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Cape Town). Rashid currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Authentication & Resale
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Framing
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FRAME
All of our frames are made from sustainably sourced engineered hardwood that is manufactured in the USA. Frames are available in Black or White Matte and Walnut.
MAT
Prints are hinged to a conservation quality, acid-free and lignin-free Cellulose matboard, using acid-free polyethylene cloth tape. Each mat’s surface paper is fade and bleed resistant and is attached to a conversation quality foam-core board. Some of our work (typically those pieces with a deckled edge) is floated on the matboard with spacers to separate the artwork from the glazing.
GLAZING
We use museum quality .060 mm plexiglass to frame your work. It blocks 82-85% of UV rays to prevent color fading from exposure to light, protecting your art for years to come.
DIMENSIONS
Our White and Black frames have a ⅞” wide flat face and are 15/16” deep. Mats are 1” wide for prints up to 8” x 10”. Mats are 2” wide for prints larger than 8” x 10”.
Our Natural and Walnut frames have a ¾” wide flat face and are 1 ⅛” deep. Mats are 1” wide for prints up to 8” x 10”. Mats are 2” wide for prints larger than 8” x 10”.
Any artwork that is floated will be placed in a frame that has a ⅝” wide flat face and is 1 5/16” deep. Work will be floated with a 1” border around it.
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