MY FAVORITE RAPPER

Opening: Friday, February 25th, 2011

MY FAVORITE RAPPER has been organized in an attempt to identify and celebrate artists who feel that hip hop culture has made an impact on their current practice, however profound or minute that impact might be. The result is a multi-media exhibition that encompasses many different aspects of hip hop music and its’ associated branches of influence, and while many of the responses are light-hearted and fun, there are underlying themes that may be examined upon closer inspection of the media. This exhibition seeks to serve as a microcosm of hip hop itself, an oft-maligned, but equally celebrated American creation that, by the nature of its’ obsession with self image, seems to constantly and consistently exist in a state of identity crisis.