User:Louie Delahoyde

 Projects 

The Domestic (2019)

This project links to Everlena Bates, Charlton’s grandmother and lots of black women who had to work for White rich families in the 20th century. During this time Charlton highlights the fact that these housekeepers were working endlessly long hours in terrible conditions suffering abuse for very little pay.

Iris Project (2020)

For this project Charlton works with found illustrations of little white girls from the 1950s embraced by their caretakers. Charlton brings your attention to the plight of the domestic worker, an invisible figure who is tasked with bringing a child up without any good pay or effective treatment.

Meant for the Homebred

One of the images in the Iris project is meant for the homebred, which is an image of a woman's strong thighs, out these thighs grow trees and flowers. The strong thighs represent her grandmother who was a powerful black woman who stayed in such a racist town, this has made Charlton explore further in the concept of powerful women. This leads to an upside-down house; this house represents her grandmother’s house in Tallahassee, a family touchstone that has since been torn down to build a subdivision. This house shows how the legacy of these powerful women has fallen victim to the violent erasure of non-white suburban America.

Rendition

Rendition by Zoe Charlton is one of her most well-known pieces due to the amount of meaning behind it, it has a black sculpture in the centre of the image as the focal point of the piece, when asked about the piece Charlton said that she found the sculpture in an antiques shop and after purchasing it called it "Sib", because she immediately identified the sculpture as a sibling or as kin. She calls it her doppelgänger. When asked about the outcome of the piece Charlton said "My hope is that this installation sparks a conversation about the commercialisation of culture and how race and cultural identity play a role in so many aspects of our lives, frequently without us even noticing, Rendition' asks viewers to think about how blackness is used to sell everything from clothing and shoes to African sculptures.

 Later life 

After doing her masters in Texas Zoe Charlton was a professor at American University (DC) then in 2009 she received tenure being the one of the first black American women to do so. Now Zoe is a Full Professor of Art and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Art at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Zoe Charlton has had her artwork all over the world in different exhibitions and museums like the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Poland), the Harvey B. Gantt Center (NC) and Delaware Contemporary (DE).

Sindikit

Sindikit is a collaboration that Charlton did with Tom Doud. This is a project where Charlton and Tom show people how to create design on practice-based research, and to foster art-centered conversations. To design art on anti-racism, anti-biased and collaborative art centered projects. Both Charlton and Tom had arrived at American University (AU) in 2003 as professors,  so knew each other then and since becoming close have decided to create this non profitable project design solely to help people not to be scared to create something that is not ordinary in design and put their point across through art just like Charlton and Tom have done throughout their careers.

 Exabition's 

Rendition, February 8 - March 13, 2020. At Cultural DC

The Domestic March 12 - July 11, 2021. At C.Grimaldis Gallery

A Movement in Every Direction- April 9, 2022 - January 29, 2023. At Mississippi museum of art