Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles is pleased to present Anonymous Fields, its first solo exhibition with artist Joseph Sherman. The exhibition will highlight Sherman’s versatile practice, which incorporates painting, sculpture, mixed-media collage, and installation as visual and conceptual pathways into entrenched cultural legacies indexing Blackness. Broadly, Sherman's work inhabits the cultural arenas of sports and entertainment iconography where dilemmas of Black persona are negotiated through public, communal, and personal mythologies, and between iconic and profane experiences of racialized identity. With Anonymous Fields, Sherman alludes to discursive, cultural, and representational terrains that have historically situated Black Americans within paradoxical relationships to their creative output. Drawing on his background as a commercial photographer, Sherman’s interventions probe formal and existential tensions embedding various contemporary spectacles that exploit Black labor to instead rearticulate the Black authorial and creative nuance that make these cultural formations legible, or what the artist refers to as “epiphanies.”