Single-Authored Books — Book — Dr. Cherise Smith

Michael Ray Charles is the most comprehensive presentation yet of the work of an artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s for works that engaged American stereotypes of African Americans. With a background in advertising and an archivist’s inquisitiveness, Charles developed an artistic practice that made startling use of found images and offered critiques of the narratives they fostered. Immersing readers in the imagination of this daring painter, Michael Ray Charles celebrates and contextualizes a singular, major figure in the art world.

Single-Authored BooksCherise SmithApril 1, 2020

Collecting Black Studies

“Michael Ray Charles Engages Black Studies,” in Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture at The University of Texas at Austin, edited by Cherise Smith and Lise Ragbir (Austin: Art Galleries at Black Studies and University of Texas Press, 2020). Forthcoming.