Renne Cox

Renee Cox is a controversial African American artist born in Jamacia, but based out of New York. In one series, "Surprise, surprise. Stereotypes still exist," Cox uses text to showcase the many ways in which stereotypes are prevalent in society. Recently I've become more aware of text and the way in which it guides an image, detracts, or even overpowers it. In this series, Cox only uses text, but is aware of the words that hold more strength then others. In order to highlight those specific words, Cox boldens and changes the color from yellow to white. At a distance, one could still get the impact of the image without reading the entire piece.

Even though I want text to be apart of my images, I want the images to stand on thier own and carry their own weight, without the words to guide them. I need to consider many things with text - font, size, color and placement, I want it to have impact like Renee Cox's text, but I still want it to merely supplement the image.