Justin Randolph Thompson

• Installation
• Antenna of the Race
• The Crisis of Black Intellect
• Get Ready You Mother...
• The future looks brighter than ever.
• Dark was the Night
• Captives, Buffoons and an Ensign Bearer
• Sweet Exorcist
• Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
• Primer for Well Water
• Labor Vincit Omnia
• Togged to the Bricks
• Heel Tap
• Meet Me in the Bottoms
• Without Laughter
• Tossin' the Rag
• We Need Another Witness
• The First Book of Africa
• I'm Gone
• Rag Poppin'
• The Pits
• Shine
• Swingin'
• Maybe it Runs in the Family

• Performance
• Antenna of the Race
• Frisk Yo' Whiskers
• Negotiating Terms of Exclusion
• Friskin' the Whiskers
• Dark was the Night
• Mi Daran Tomba...e Pace...Forse
• Captives, Buffoons and an Ensign Bearer
• Moldy Figs
• Sweet Exorcist
• Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
• Primer for Well Water
• Preface to 20 Voices for Robeson
• Fit the Battle
• Standing in a Safety Zone
• Togged to the Bricks
• Hide Beaters
• Hand for a Hand
• Heel Tap
• Traveling Shoes
• Watermelon Theater
• Brutus Jones
• Joshua
• Dem' Golden Slippers
• Meet Me in the Bottoms
• Without Laughter
• Tossin' the Rag
• Power
• I'm Gone
• Rag Poppin'
• The Pits
• Swing Hard
• Swingin'
• Oh! Dem' Golden Slippers
• Collapse

• Sound
• Witness
• Molto Soul, Molto Black
• Fried Magnolias
• Pieces of a Man
• Swingin'
• Hoodoo Whackin'
• Raisin' Hell

• Video
• Influence
• Under the Table
• Flee
• Pieta
• Table
• Triumph
• Show Your Teeth

• About the Artist
• News
• Bio
• CV
• Contact
• Links

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Justin Randolph Thompson

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Maybe it Runs in the Family is an installation drawing its title from ancestry databases. The Palm leaf and tree in European art history and the family tree as a demonstration of nobility are re-contextualized through culturally loaded materials.