Take one last look at Punk Noir and join Dawn Okoro for a discussion about her work. Learn more about Okoro’s creative process and how her interest in fashion and punk culture informs her artistic style.
The talk will be held in the Athello Beck Gallery at the South Dallas Cultural Center on March 21 from 1-2 p.m. Admission is FREE.
About Dawn Okoro
Heavily influenced by fashion as a means of aesthetic expression and resistance — Dawn Okoro’s work examines standards of beauty and the use of commercial imagery to commodify desire. Her current exhibition, Punk Noir, is on display at the South Dallas Cultural Center. The exhibition features portraits of black musicians, filmmakers, and other creatives disputing the conventional image of punk with works that present an afrocentric world view.
Informed by compositional techniques used in fashion photography, Okoro draws inspiration from popular culture. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Drawing Magazine, and on BET’s The First Wives Club. She has shown at the Texas Biennial, George Washington Carver Museum in Austin, New York University, and the MoCADA Museum in Brooklyn. She resides and works in Austin, Texas.
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