Terrence Sanders Dead Lost or Displaced

by Terrence Sanders, Britt Benoit, Shantrelle Lewis, Chris Rose

Overview

The monograph Dead Lost or Displaced documents the lives of Louisiana natives mostly in and around New Orleans and Baton Rouge. It never occurred to me that this series would become a Hurricane Katrina Memorial. This book is dedicated to the innocent, who either are Dead, Lost or Displaced due to the events that occurred after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. During the 11 days I survived as a witness to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the one thing that helped me cope with the despair and anger was working on this book. Dead Lost or Displaced features excerpts from the New Orleans Times Picayune article about me titled: “Peace Among the Ruins” by Pulitzer prize winner Chris Rose author of 1 Dead in Attic, which is a collection of stories recounting the first four harrowing months of life in New Orleans after Katrina. The book went on to become a New York Times Bestseller.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608010073
Publisher:	Artvoices Books
Publication date:	09/14/2016
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Terrence Sanders has contributed to the landscape of contemporary art as an artist, gallerist, curator, publisher and editor-in-chief of Artvoices Magazine and Artvoices Art Books. As an artist: “I feel a strong responsibility to provide the viewer with stimulating visuals that speak in an equally distinct language.  These tableaux initiate a vibrant dialogue between subject and viewer." Sanders mission as Editor-In-Chief of Artvoices Magazine (Established 2008) was to create a platform for emerging, neglected and under recognized artists who create important and relevant works of art arguably. Sanders’ is the Father of noted artist Lucien Smith. Sanders has directed and curated art spaces: Terrence Sanders Gallery (New Orleans), Untitled Art Projects (Los Angeles), Sanders, Smith & Stokes (New Orleans), Artists 101 (Los Angeles), Makeshift Museum (Los Angeles). Sanders has curated over 50 exhibitions including: ’60 Americans’ ‘We Got Next’ and the ‘Saratoga Collection’. Sanders has exhibited more than 100 visual artists without representation at art fairs in Europe and the United States.

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“In order to truly grasp the depth of this series it’s necessary for one to examine the significance of the chronological juxtaposition of a pre- and post-Katrina reality. The black and white photographs of Black and White people speak to a society, as much as it is multi-cultural with a caste system of Black, white, and something in-between. Like most Southern places we have been racially bipolar. Terrence creates a mixed media with dry and oil pastel, and creates a graphite jambalaya. Black and White people lost their homes and lives in the storm. Black and White people joined their respective manpower wading through the water for survival. Yet, a disproportionate number of African Americans lost lives, homes, and have yet been able to return.” – Shantrelle Lewis Former Director of the George McKenna Museum of Art, Curator, Scholar, Critic, and Filmmaker. 2012 Andy Warhol Curatorial Fellow and 2014 United Nations Programme for People of African Descent Fellow.

Editorial Reviews

“Take the compassionate eye of photographer Walker Evans, add the contemporary tragedy of Hurricane Katrina and a dash of poetry, and you have Terrence Sanders. Sanders’s subjects confront the camera willingly and without coercion, with a variety of attitudes—some are vulnerable, others manage a shy or sheepish smile, a couple of them look high on something; all are united by their education in the School of Hard Knocks.  -  JoAnne S. Northrup, Director of Contemporary Art Initiatives at the Nevada Museum of Art and the former Chief Curator at the Katie and Drew Gibson San Jose Museum of Art.

“The essential function of a memorial is to preserve a memory. Against the erosion of time, memorials resist the human flaws of forgetfulness and apathy. -Miranda Lash, Speed Art Museum’s Curator of Contemporary Art and the Former Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

“We all have things / issues we doubt to say, things we think embarrassing or shameful to express. The people in Terrence Sanders's photography are saying this without speech without sound but through capture of emotion and feeling through sight. They made me think and not speak just wonder and relate.” -Michaela Kastly, Camera Press Gallery, London UK.

“This body of work puts a huge twist on documentary photography. As we sometimes selfishly attach to someone’s image because they have an intriguing look-Terrence Sanders clearly wants to know the stories behind the faces.” -Nicole Morgenthau, Photographer, New York City.

"Terrence Sanders has a wonderful way of capturing true human emotion in his work. His use of mixed media adds depth and meaning to photographs already full to the brim with the power of his message. The artist clearly has a passion for displaying the harsh reality of American life, and he manages to make this reality beautiful, thought provoking, and impossible to ignore." -Julia Henderson, Former Art Editor Fringe Magazine

"In contrast to Terrence Sanders paintings which are filled with political and racial rage, I found the “Dead Lost or Displaced” series to be extremely poetic and personal on a level which revealed an inner beauty and compassion of the artist which made the viewer aware of the deep trauma and inner feelings of his subjects. A true accomplishment.” -Ronald Sosinski, Former Director of Proposition Gallery, New York City

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