Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts’s Proving Ground: Proposals for a Genealogy of Black Feminist Land Art will be a speculative art history in search of a field, charting locations where Black women both anticipated and refused certain precepts of the postmodern land art tendency.
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is associate professor of Writing at Pratt Institute. She is the author of Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America (Hachette, 2011). She has contributed to monographs on Dawoud Bey, Simone Leigh, and Richard Mayhew. She organizes collaborative public projects through The Freedwomen’s Bureau.