This collection offers objects gathered over years of travel, research, and intentional collecting by artist Tawny Chatmon. With a special focus on African American material culture, you will also find objects from the artist’s studio, including items used in portrait sittings, research, wardrobe styling, and pieces that were once considered for re-signification within the artist’s practice, and more. Some objects have been lived with by the artist for many years, while a number were used during portrait sittings and studies.
Collected from estate sales, auctions, private collections, and markets across the globe, these objects have journeyed through time or space into the artist’s hands, now offered here on Chairish.