Shervone Neckles American, b. 1979

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Shervone Neckles
I draw on my Afro-Caribbean American identity and its traditions by using  multiple media to retell and reconfigure stories of history, mythology, and  personal experience. Through textiles, assemblage, printmaking, sculpture, and  installation, I awaken embedded memories from objects and materials.The  sacred and scientific imagery I use is inspired by Afro-Caribbean instinctual ways of knowing and Indigenous wisdom. My narratives bridge history and the  present, life and the afterlife, mythology and the real, and seriousness with play. This gesture of remembering honors and makes visible ancestors that might  otherwise be lost or forgotten.
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Shervone Neckles

Shervone Neckles was born in 1979 in Huntington, New York to parents of Grenadian descent and raised in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York. 

 

She has earned an MA from Teacher's College, Columbia University, MFA from Queens College and BFA from The College of New Rochelle.

 

Her work has been shown nationally in venues including Newhouse Center for  Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY; Morris Museum,  Morristown, NJ; For Colored Girls Museum, Philadelphia, PA; and Weeksville  Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NY as well as internationally in places like India,  Australia, and Italy. In 2019, she was featured as part of the Venice Biennale’s Grenada Pavilion.

 

The Terciopelo series uses collage, appliqué, and embroidery techniques to create textile wall hangings. The series draws its symbols and imagery from the Grenadian masquerade ritual of Jab Jab. The Carnival day begins with J’ouvert, a procession of people who display their racial pride by covering their skin in the rich blacks of molasses, burnt cane, and grease. They carry chains, ropes, and serpents to honor the survival of enslaved and oppressed ancestors. The ritual takes place at daybreak, a time when the living and dead can exchange energy. This public ritual conjures the energy needed to bring order and balance to society.

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