{"id":1916,"date":"2010-09-17T13:47:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/09\/john_bankston_-_folk_inside_ou\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T13:47:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T20:47:09","slug":"john_bankston_-_folk_inside_ou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/09\/john_bankston_-_folk_inside_ou.html","title":{"rendered":"John Bankston &#8211; folk incrustations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my family, making something out of anything but words was a waste of time. Lumpy clay bowls and crayon drawings brought home from school were considered childish aberrations, akin to picking your nose and eating it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.renabranstengallery.com\/Bankston.html\">John Bankston<\/a> comes from another tradition. He drew his way into the world and hasn&#8217;t, as an adult, shaken off the magic of turning a blank into an image or a&nbsp; lump of clay into a man.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JohnBankstonindianhood.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/JohnBankstonindianhood.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"460\" width=\"350\" \/>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regenprojects.com\/artists\/glenn-ligon\/images\/\">Glenn Ligon<\/a> &#8230;. (Image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/artwork\/109192\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"glennligonmalcomx.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/glennligonmalcomx.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"473\" width=\"365\" \/>&#8230;Bankston investigates the push-pull of African-American traditions through the prism of a coloring book, minus, of course, the book. The weight of cultural assumption trails his figures like a suspicious clerk in a grocery store. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"johnbankstonmask.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/johnbankstonmask.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"460\" width=\"355\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"johnbankstontwin.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/johnbankstontwin.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"460\" width=\"409\" \/>In his jaunty fun-house mirror, tragedy causes the distortions.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesharrisgallery.com\/Previous%20Exhibitions\/JohnBankston092010.html\">James Harris<\/a> through Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my family, making something out of anything but words was a waste of time. Lumpy clay bowls and crayon drawings brought home from school were considered childish aberrations, akin to picking your nose and eating it.&nbsp; John Bankston comes from another tradition. He drew his way into the world and hasn&#8217;t, as an adult, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}