Jacolby Satterwhite: How lovly is me being as I am

How lovly is me being as I am is the first comprehensive artist survey on Jacolby Satterwhite (born 1986), produced in conjunction with the exhibition, Spirits Roaming on the Earth organized by curator Elizabeth Chodos (August 14, 2021–December 5, 2021).

This publication celebrates Satterwhite’s prolific conceptual practice that engages a wide range of media—layered and exuberant 3D animated films, immersive installations, sculptures, electronic dance tracks and performances that draw on diverse influences that include modernism, gaming, queer theory, mythology and Black culture.

Satterwhite possesses a special ability to turn existential uncertainty into a generative engine of resilience, reinvention and celebration—a quality he shares with his late mother and muse, Patricia Satterwhite. In her diagrams for visionary household products and recordings of ethereal vocals, she leveraged her own irrepressible creativity to transform hardship into new worlds of possibility. A world-builder himself, Satterwhite’s multiform gestalt can be fully appreciated for the first time through this exhibition and companion monograph. Mapping this holistic view of Satterwhite’s masterful synthesis of personal, theoretical and pop-cultural influences across a wide range of materials and genres, this book affirms his position as one of the preeminent makers and thinkers of our time.

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Jacolby Satterwhite: How lovly is me being as I am

Designed and produced by Sonia Yoon. Edited by Elizabeth Chodos and Andrew Durbin.

Preface by Elizabeth Chodos. Introduction by Andrew Durbin. Contributions by Sasha Bonét, Malik Gaines, Jane Ursula Harris, Legacy Russell, Kimberly Drew.

ISBN 9781733537827
Hardcover, 8.75 x 11 in., 256 color pages with 8 fold-outs.
Printed in Italy.
Cover image photography © Henry Leutwyler 2021.