Naqeeb Stevens (also known as Ambrose Stevens) is a research-based artist working in video, performance, and photography to explore embodiment through investigations in race, class, gender, and sexuality. Their creative practice works within the margins of familiarity as a way to activate large sociopolitical ambivalences and reframe the distance between individual subjectivities. He attempts to translate his understanding of social reality through the language of painting and academic discourse in order to create portals of accessible conversations about identity.
Disciplines:
Visual Arts – photography
Naqeeb Stevens
Disciplines:
Visual Arts – photography
Region: Los Angeles, CA
Residencies: 2017
More:
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Studios
Alexander
Naqeeb Stevens worked in the Alexander studio.
Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…