Lanise Howard

About this episode

Lanise Howard discusses her multidisciplinary art practice and the stories behind her current projects.

In this episode of The Truth In The Art, the returning guest is Lanise Howard! Who is Lanise Howard: A Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist, Lanise Howard creates work centered around a reimagining of different histories, especially within the black experience. She pulls from the past and from the future, which she often sees in her dreams. Working across paintings, drawings, sculpture, and soon textiles, Howard is a world-builder whose portraiture depicts Black bodies and paints often untold stories. Lanise talks about the three bodies of work she's currently developing: her main project, a sci-fi world based in the future but with a story that started in the 1970s; a more personal body of work featuring herself traversing different landscapes; and an ancestral series honoring different ancestors from the past. We dive into her world-building practice, how she merges the "future past" or "past future" to create parallel universes and new dimensions, and her approach of asking which medium best conveys each story she wants to tell. She reflects on recent museum shows—particularly at the California African American Museum in partnership with Art and Practice—where she…

People in this episode

Host: Rob Lee

Guest: Lanise Howard

Topics covered

• multidisciplinary art
• Black experience
• world-building
• sci-fi
• personal narrative
• museum shows

Keywords

• Lanise Howard
• multidisciplinary artist
• Black bodies
• sci-fi world
• ancestral series
• art world
• California African American Museum

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: California African American Museum, Art and Practice

Places: Los Angeles, Miami

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