Artist’s Talk: Michael Ray Charles with Cherise Smith

“In this talk, Charles and Smith discuss his practice over the past three decades. Topics range from controversy over Charles’s provocative appropriations of stereotypical racial material to his techniques of sampling pop culture, and from his commentaries on African American men and sports to working with director Spike Lee on the film Bamboozled. ”

Cherise Smith and Michael Ray Charles give the Frank and Eleanor Freed Lecture at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2020).