Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade”

$49.95 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Through visualizing, absence, and erasure, Ken Gonzales-Day reveals the deeply political act of seeing, forcing us to reconsider the histories we inherit. Ken Gonzales-Day’s work confronts the role of the visual in conveying history or in history’s absences, including bodies and spaces deliberately erased, forgotten, or never acknowledged. As illustrated and discussed in Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade,” his photography, film, drawing, and painting interrogate race and power, questioning how bodies are…