Nayland Blake ’82: An Artist’s Personal Museum in Brooklyn

Blake, whose work explores the fluidity of race and gender, has long been an accumulator as much as a creator. “There’s a particular way that culture is articulated in museums and galleries,” Blake says, “but then there’s another way that we all experience it through the stuff that we put in our houses.” It’s no surprise, then, that the artist’s one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, Brooklyn, where they have lived for the past 17 years, is crammed floor-to-ceiling with kitschy novelties and personal totems. 

Post Date: 10-16-2019