The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is pleased to announce the Texas State Legislature’s 2024 appointment of Michael Ray Charles to the position of state two-dimensional artist.
Charles’ work explores historic African-American stereotypes from the Antebellum South, appropriating images from advertising and pop culture to expose the underlying racism prevalent in contemporary culture. He creates a vocabulary of cultural, racial and historical images to explore caricatures that continue to survive in popular media, such as Aunt Jemima or Sambo.
