Nayland Blake’s Dark Joke Is On You

The artist has perfected a register that is laugh-out-loud funny or absurd, rigorously conceptual, and erotic, edged with simmering rage.

Nayland Blake’s Dark Joke Is On You
Detail of Nayland Blake, "Equipment for a Shameful Epic" (1993), mixed media (all photos Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic)