D’Angelo Christian

D’Angelo Christian’s collage and photographs depict home—home created with family and constructed despite distance. In Home, Long Beach, CA, Christian collages photographs taken in and around his family home. An image of the artist’s shadow unmistakably resembles the silhouette of his brother who has been incarcerated since he was a teenager. Writing on this collage in an essay for the exhibition catalog, curator Matthew Villar Miranda explains that “Christian insists there are three entities: two sons and a mother. Though not explicitly imaged, [the artist] clarifies, ‘The mother is the light.’” Miranda observes that the photos in this series “reflect an alchemical light that transmutes the surface of synthetic tarps into golden lamé; envelopes a weary brother in a warm magenta halo; traces the electric blue lines on a grandma’s bible… the photographs depict light-as-body, an energy through a windowed threshold that renders two forcibly separated brothers visible and near. Christian writes freely of love, thinks of family often, and gives light to the dreams that windows and walls cannot contain.”

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