Working seamlessly across a wide range of media, including photography, sculpture and video installation, Awol Erizku references and remixes disparate artistic movements and traditions, from the photorealist still lifes of Dutch Masters to spare, minimalist constructions—giving them all distinctly twenty-first-century updates. Throughout his work, the New York–born, Los Angeles–based artist strives to correct what he perceives as a marked absence of people of color throughout the canon of art history. He integrates contemporary fabrics, styles and symbols with a provocatively allusive sensibility and aesthetic. Inspired by a shirt the artist purchased on 125th Street, depicting a golden statue of an Egyptian queen, the artist envisions the luxury of being fed grapes, a seemingly common practice among Egyptian royalty.