Reverse View: KKK (from Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ku-Klux-Klan, circa 1950s, National Museum of American History, Archives Center, NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.KKK)

Stephanie Syjuco, Reverse View: KKK (from Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ku-Klux-Klan, circa 1950s, National Museum of American History, Archives Center, NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.KKK), 2021, archival pigment inkjet, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, 2022.24.2
Stephanie Syjuco, Reverse View: KKK (from Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ku-Klux-Klan, circa 1950s, National Museum of American History, Archives Center, NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.KKK), 2021, archival pigment inkjet, sheet and image: 59 1⁄2 × 43 1⁄2 in. (151.1 × 110.5 cm) framed: 60 1⁄2 × 44 1⁄2 × 2 1⁄4 in. (153.7 × 113 × 5.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, 2022.24.2

Artwork Details

Title
Reverse View: KKK (from Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ku-Klux-Klan, circa 1950s, National Museum of American History, Archives Center, NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.KKK)
Artist
Date
2021
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet and image: 59 1⁄2 × 43 1⁄2 in. (151.1 × 110.5 cm) framed: 60 1⁄2 × 44 1⁄2 × 2 1⁄4 in. (153.7 × 113 × 5.7 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Mediums Description
archival pigment inkjet
Classifications
Subjects
  • History — United States — Black History
  • Object — written matter — newspaper
Object Number
2022.24.2
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2022.24.2

Artwork Description

In these works, Stephanie Syjuco manipulates archival material she photographed in 2019 as a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History. Her discoveries there led her to consider the role of such collections in shaping American identity and history.

The source for Nationalities was Alexander Alland's American Counterpoint photographs from the 1940s. Syjuco highlights her engagement with that material through the exposure of a photograph, shown in the box where she found it. The source for Reverse View: KKK was the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana. Wedged between the subjects "Ladies Clothes" and "Kitchen Appliances," Syjuco found a folder containing pamphlets, correspondence, and photographs recording Ku Klux Klan activities. Here, Syjuco's engagement is made visible through her blockage. By exposing the backsides of these materials, Syjuco provides a counternarrative to white supremacy.

Works by this artist (4 items)

Stephanie Syjuco, Cargo Cults (Java Bunny), 2016, pigment print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Bernie Stadiem Endowment, 2019.56.2
Cargo Cults (Java Bunny)
Artist
Date2016
pigment print
On view
Stephanie Syjuco, Cargo Cults (Basket Woman), 2016, pigment print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Bernie Stadiem Endowment, 2019.56.1, ©2016, Stephanie Syjuco
Cargo Cults (Basket Woman)
Artist
Date2016
pigment print
On view
Stephanie Syjuco, Reverse View: KKK (from Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Ku-Klux-Klan, circa 1950s, National Museum of American History, Archives Center, NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.KKK), 2021, archival pigment inkjet, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, 2022.24.2
Reverse View: KKK (from Warshaw Collection of Business…
Artist
Date2021
archival pigment inkjet
Not on view
Stephanie Syjuco, Nationalities: Eleven Filipino women in native dress (from the American Counterpoint project, Alexander Alland, Sr., Photoprints, circa 1940, National Museum of American History, Archives Center, NMAH.AC.0204), 2021, archival pigment inkjet, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, 2022.24.1
Nationalities: Eleven Filipino women in native dress (from…
Artist
Date2021
archival pigment inkjet
Not on view

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