Originally conceived of as a new series in 1995-96, David Levinthal’s Blackface series of 20 x 24 Polaroids may be this significants artist’s most controversial body of work in the twenty-five year span of his career.
While there was at the time gallery presentations of this specific body of work in New York and Los Angeles, an exhibition of said work at an important East Coast non-profit space was cancelled just prior to the opening,