Radically expanding our understanding of Senga Nengudi's art this book publishes
never-before-seen drawings prints photographs performance scores and poetry spanning five
decades of her practice. When Senga Nengudi's sculptural installation RSVP debuted at Just
Above Midtown in 1977 the works quickly became icons of the Black Arts movement. During her
career spanning five decades Nengudi has realised a remarkable body of work that blurs the
boundaries between sculpture and performance fine art and ritual individual authorship and
collective energy. Made of everyday materials Nengudi's installations are at once proxies for
bodies and sites for performance. Characteristic of her openness to multiplicity the artist
born Sue Ellen Irons has assumed pseudonyms that inflect her creative identities as sculptor
(Senga Nengudi) painter (Harriet Chin) photographer (Propecia Leigh) and writer (Lily Bea
Moor). The publication is devoted to all of her creative identities.
