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.
Discipline:
Visual Art – photography
Naqeeb Stevens
Discipline:
Visual Art – photography
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
More:
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Studios
Alexander
Naqeeb Stevens worked in the Alexander studio.
Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…