I GIVE MORE THAN I TAKE from COMMUNITY IS BUILT ON EMPATHY

Art

DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2018.11

Description

"I GIVE MORE THAN I TAKE" appliqued gold letters against navy, white, and gold nylon. 5 sides total

Artwork Details

Medium

Nylon, tackle twill, grommets for hanging

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum; Art Acquisition Endowment Fund

Made/Created

Artist

Pope, Cheryl

Date made

2016

Ethnography

Notes

North America US U.S

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

power, culture-related concepts, sports, games, physical activities, weak (color attribute), color-related attributes, color (perceived attribute), hanging (supporting), supporting, strengthening, stabilizing, athletics (exercises), identity, metaphysical concepts, philosophical concepts, perception, psychological concepts, social science concepts

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), Color (hierarchy name), Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet, Activities Facet, Physical Attributes Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

47 in

Length

70-3/4 in

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Cheryl Pope is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist and educator who questions and responds to issues of identity as it relates to the individual and the community, specifically in regards to race, gender, class, history, power and place. Her research and practice regularly involve collaborations with Chicago youth, and explores such urgent issues as gun violence and segregation. Pope’s work has used athletic materials, forms and references to underscore the labor and politics necessary in both athletics and art. As a visiting Mellon Scholar at Kenyon College in Ohio in 2016, she co-taught a sociology course on institutions and inequalities. Students in the course generated anonymous personal statements focused on self-perception and identity. I Give More Than I Take is one of twenty statements that Pope transformed in to championship banners and installed in the Kenyon Athletic center. The artist plays with stereotypes and expectations associated with athletics, and instead imbues their aesthetic forms and physical arena with personal anxieties and private reflections. I Give More Than I Take suggests a self-aware, intentional type of charity or benevolence, although the speaker is intentionally unidentified.