Howardena pindell autobiography water cycle

BLVRD Features recently released an augmented reality experience exploring a stunning and powerful multi-media work by Howardena Pindell entitled Autobiography: Water/Ancestors/Middle Passage/Family Ghosts , from the Wadsworth Atheneum with whom we developed this exciting project.  

An important American artist, activist, curator, and educator, Pindell has always marched to the beat of her own drum.

For over five decades, her trailblazing voice and wide-ranging experimental artistic practice have shaped the discourse around process and politics in contemporary art.  Pindell’s art demands that we pay as much attention to the creative process as the human condition.

Very often her work addresses the intersection of racism, feminism, and oppression. Even Pindell’s more seemingly subtle abstractions, however, not only engage us with textural provocation, but are (figuratively) interwoven with probing questions about the nature of beauty and the divine, collectivit