Works

“A desire towards addressing humanity stated purposely with the broadest brush possible has led Lightbourn to engage the inescapabilty of the socio-political/art- historical framings of Blackness cast upon artists who identify as such. The meditation in her work is driven simultaneously by an interest in combating the flatness of what is projected into the darkness of being Black (outlining the simple-mindedness and lack of self recognition in placing this frame on work regardless of content) and parallel to this reflecting upon a sense of untranscendabilty by elaborating blackness in its simple and complex state as the central and explicit content of the works.”

-Justin Randolph Thompson