Sabrina and Katrina

Artist Endia Beal American, born 1985

Date2015

MediumPigment print

Dimensionsheight and width (image): 40 × 26 in. (101.6 × 66 cm)
height and width (sheet): 42 × 28 in. (106.7 × 71.1 cm)
frame: 48 1/2 × 38 1/2 × 3 in. (123.2 × 97.8 × 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the William R. Roberson Jr. and Frances M. Roberson Endowed Fund for North Carolina Art

Object number2021.4.3/dc

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Label TextEndia Beal notes that her works “reveal the often overlooked and unappreciated experiences unique to people of color.” As a Black woman raised in the South, Beal has experienced discrimination of various forms and degrees, an ongoing hardship she hopes to address—and, more important, rectify—through her projects.

This work, from her series Am I What You’re Looking For?, focuses on the difficulties faced by young Black women as they transition from school to the corporate world. Much discussion between the subjects and the artist revolves around natural hairstyles. Beal has challenged viewers about their perception of the sitters, saying, “What if my subjects, Sabrina and Katrina, came into your office space and this is how they looked?”
["Portraits and Power," 2024]ProvenanceCreated 2017, printed 2021; collection of the artist, Winston-Salem, NC; sold to NCMA, 2021.Published ReferencesPriscilla Frank, David I. Walker, and Becky Harlan, Endia Beal: Performance Review, foreword by Whitney Richardson (Minor Matters Books, 2020).Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection Reimagined," June 17, 2024-April 7, 2025. Object Rights Statement

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