Hyperallergic

Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness

Ulysses Jenkins, "Just Another Rendering of the Same Old Problem" (1979), performance at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (image courtesy the artist, photo by Nancy Buchanan) LOS ANGELES — ...
Artnet

Pioneering L.A. Artist Ulysses Jenkins Changed the Way We Look at Video and Performance Art. We Talked to Him About How He Did It

Ulysses Jenkins’s career arc takes one through the annals of Los Angeles art history, and back to the beginnings of video as a communications technology and a tool of artistic expression. Jenkins was ...
Los Angeles Times

Art godfather Ulysses Jenkins finally gets his close-up with a Hammer show of his video art

In 1981, artist Ulysses Jenkins was teaching at UC San Diego when the media faculty was asked to stage a demonstration for an open house. Jenkins says the initial idea was to set up a VCR and play a ...
Yahoo

Ulysses Jenkins, Los Angeles artist and pioneer of Black experimental video, dies at 79

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ulysses Jenkins received his first major retrospective at the Hammer Museum in 2022. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Ulysses ...