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Shikeith — Blue Shadow
Shikeith — Blue Shadow
Shikeith

Blue Shadow

2024

Blue Shadow presents a quietly monumental presence within a compact form, uniting cast bronze and glass in a composition that speaks to Shikeith's ongoing meditation on Black masculine interiority and the emotional textures of vulnerability. The work's material pairing is purposeful: bronze carries the weight of permanence, of bodies commemorated and histories solidified, while glass introduces fragility, transparency, and the possibility of rupture. Together they produce a tension that refuses easy resolution, asking the viewer to hold both endurance and precariousness as simultaneous truths. Shikeith, whose practice spans sculpture, photography, video, and installation, has built a body of work concerned with the unseen labor of Black men navigating grief, desire, and tenderness in a world that rarely grants them space for such states. Blue Shadow extends this inquiry into three dimensions with particular intimacy. The title's invocation of blue, long associated with melancholy and cool emotional registers, suggests an affective undercurrent running through the form, a shadow that belongs not to light falling across a surface but to feeling moving beneath one. At 76.2 centimeters tall, the sculpture occupies space with a human resonance, neither monumental in scale nor easily dismissed. Produced in an edition of five and signed by the artist, Blue Shadow represents a significant entry point into Shikeith's sculptural work at a moment when his practice is receiving sustained critical attention. Works in this edition are offered through Yossi Milo Gallery. For collectors drawn to contemporary sculpture that engages questions of identity, embodiment, and emotional depth with formal rigor, this work offers both aesthetic authority and substantive conceptual weight that will reward long acquaintance.

Medium
Bronze and Glass
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

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Shikeith, Blue Shadow, 2024

Blue Shadow presents a quietly monumental presence within a compact form, uniting cast bronze and glass in a composition that speaks to Shikeith's ongoing meditation on Black masculine interiority and the emotional textures of vulnerability. The work's material pairing is purposeful: bronze carries the weight of permanence, of bodies commemorated and histories solidified, while glass introduces fragility, transparency, and the possibility of rupture. Together they produce a tension that refuses easy resolution, asking the viewer to hold both endurance and precariousness as simultaneous truths. Shikeith, whose practice spans sculpture, photography, video, and installation, has built a body of work concerned with the unseen labor of Black men navigating grief, desire, and tenderness in a world that rarely grants them space for such states. Blue Shadow extends this inquiry into three dimensions with particular intimacy. The title's invocation of blue, long associated with melancholy and cool emotional registers, suggests an affective undercurrent running through the form, a shadow that belongs not to light falling across a surface but to feeling moving beneath one. At 76.2 centimeters tall, the sculpture occupies space with a human resonance, neither monumental in scale nor easily dismissed. Produced in an edition of five and signed by the artist, Blue Shadow represents a significant entry point into Shikeith's sculptural work at a moment when his practice is receiving sustained critical attention. Works in this edition are offered through Yossi Milo Gallery. For collectors drawn to contemporary sculpture that engages questions of identity, embodiment, and emotional depth with formal rigor, this work offers both aesthetic authority and substantive conceptual weight that will reward long acquaintance.

Medium
Bronze and Glass
Dimensions
overall: 76.2 x 29.8 x 19.1 cm
Year
2024
Edition
of 5
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY

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