Mister Welfare

Renee Cox is one of the most controversial African-American artists working today using her own body, both nude and clothed to celebrate black womanhood and criticize a society she often views as racist and sexist. No stranger to controversy, her 2001 piece "Yo Mama's Last Supper," which featured Cox herself in the seat of Jesus, and a cast of Black disciples (with one white Judas) sparked outrage from Catholics and then-mayor Rudolph Guiliani. Cox continues to push the envelope with her work by using new digital photography technologies, working from her archives and shooting new subjects in an effort to "unleash the potential of the ordinary and bring it into a new realm of possibilities." Learn more at https://www.reneecox.org/ and see her work featured in "Beyond the Cape! Comics and Contemporary Art" at the Boca Raton Museum of Art from April 16-October 6 https://www.bocamuseum.org/exhibitions/beyond-cape-comics-and-contemporary-art