Episode 95: Renee Cox "Reclaiming Black Female Bodies" -

Photographer and performance artist Renee Cox creates images using the female gaze to reclaim black and brown representations of women, deconstructing racial stereotypes that have historically “seeped through our Western consciousness.”

Renée Cox, *Hott-en-tot*, ca. 1993–94, Image Credit: Renee Cox website

19th century caricature of Saartje Bartmaan in her role as “Hottentot Venus.”

Also celebrated in this episode, the figural work of contemporary painter Peter C Bustin. Below is a nude figural work of his wife.

Peter Bustin, “Nude on Canvas,” oil Image Credit: peterbustinartist @Instagram

Resources for this episode include writings of Lisa Farrington and Jonathan Square, Aperture Magazine, Columbia Museum of Art, Renee Cox website, Peter C Bustin (Peterbustinartist on Instagram), and Sally Brown (Sallery_art on Instagram)

Episode 95: Renee Cox “Reclaiming Black Female Bodies”