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| | | Essex Hemphill: Take care of your blessingsEdited with text by Camille Brown. Foreword by Jonathan P. Binstock. Text by Kathy Anderson, Brian Freeman, Maleke Glee, Wayson Jones, E. Ethelbert Miller, Charles I. Nero, Michelle Parkerson, Christopher Prince, James Smalls, Ashley Whitfield, Cynthia Lou Williams, Ajamu X.
 Exploring the interdisciplinary relationship between the writings of the queer, Black poet and activist Essex Hemphill and contemporary visual artAccompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Essex Hemphill: Take care of your blessings explores the interdisciplinary relationship between Hemphill's writing—raw, politically charged and deeply personal—and contemporary visual art. Titled after Hemphill's personal signature, Take care of your blessings traces his relationships with and influences on visual artists who, like Hemphill, created genre-defying works that explore race, culture, community, gender, sexuality and the experience of living with and losing loved ones to HIV/AIDS. This publication features ephemera, photographs and archival materials alongside personal reflections from Hemphill's friends and collaborators and essays that trace the dynamic poet's life, work and impact on a generation of artists.
Featured artists include: Diedrick Brackens, Sharon Farmer, Lyle Ashton Harris, Isaac Julien, Clifford Prince King, Glenn Ligon, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Richard Bruce Nugent, Shikeith, Joyce Wellman.
Raised in Washington, DC, Essex Hemphill (1957–95) was a poet, performer, editor and activist who emerged as a luminary in the DC arts scene in the 1980s and 1990s. His poetry challenged societal norms and bridged the worlds of literature and visual art. While Hemphill died of AIDS-related illness at just 38, his work persists, reflected in visual dialogues with his contemporaries and inheritors.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Essex Hemphill: Take care of your blessings.' |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/23/2025 In this intimate shot between dear friends, the seminal, magnetic force of the interdisciplinary artist Essex Hemphill (1957–1995) is rendered clearly by the lens of his esteemed contemporary, Lyle Ashton Harris. Housed within the catalog Essex Hemphill: Take care of your blessings, it follows the eponymous exhibition of Hemphill’s work at the Philips Collection, in the city and scene in which he worked and which impacted him the most, Washington, D.C. Like the exhibition, the book takes in the politically rich, startlingly raw and refreshingly personal writing of Hemphill as a touchstone for visual artists who both knew and worked with the poet, performer, editor and activist—including Harris, Sharon Farmer, Isaac Julien, Clifford Price King and Glenn Ligon, among many more. The book collects a concise but powerful group of salient works that take on race, community, culture, sexuality and love grounded in the turbulence of living and loving through the AIDS crisis. Featuring rare poems from Hemphill (printed on small newsprint pages bound in as if they were notes from the man himself), reflections from scholars and literary figures, and artworks and ephemera bearing Hemphill’s influence, this clothbound flexi with stitched spine offers a unique cross-section of arts, activism and community from a pivotal time in both queer and Black creative history. continue to blog | FORTHCOMING AND NEW: FICTION AND POETRY |  | Walther König, KölnISBN: 9783753308760
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