Four Themes (2015)

Four Themes at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Four Archival Inkjet Prints, 40 IN x 50 IN each
Single Channel Video, Sound 1 min 27 sec

Four Themes at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Installation View: 'Four Themes' at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, November 11, 2015 - January 17, 2016

Four Themes at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Installation View: 'Four Themes' at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, November 11, 2015 - January 17, 2016

Four Themes at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Installation View: 'Four Themes' at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, November 11, 2015 - January 17, 2016

Four Themes at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Installation View: 'Four Themes' at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, November 11, 2015 - January 17, 2016

Four Themes at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Installation View: 'Origins,' Archival Inkjet Print, 40 IN x 50 IN.

Four Themes at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Installation View: 'Movement,' Archival Inkjet Print, 40 IN x 50 IN.

Four Themes at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Installation View: 'Adaptation,' Archival Inkjet Print, 40 IN x 50 IN.

Four Themes at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Installation View: 'Transformation,' Archival Inkjet Print, 40 IN x 50 IN.

Four Themes at the Museum of the African Diaspora

Installation View: 'Four Themes' at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, November 11, 2015 - January 17, 2016

Artwork Information

'Four Themes' consisted of four large-scale archival prints and one computer-animated video, presented at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, November 11, 2015 - January 17, 2016.

From the exhibition wall text:

"Bringing MoAD's guiding principles into focus, artist Tim Roseborough translates MoAD's mission, focus, and four themes into his unique Englyph writing system. As the first exhibition of the Emerging Artists Program, Four Themes consists of four digital prints and an animated video that unites the artwork, thematically.

While honoring his African ancestry, Roseborough is also dedicated to transcending art's boundaries and engaging contemporary culture. His practice currently includes the series of artworks rendered in his Englyph writing system. Englyph is a conflation of the terms, "English" and "Hieroglyphics," melding the hermetic language system of ancient Egypt with 21st century digital culture.

Englyph leverages contemporary art's dependence on language to create a literal visual vocabulary. Englyph is Roseborough's ongoing effort to balance the worlds of form and idea in artworks that are both visually appealing and conceptually rigorous."