C.Cypha, Panoramic Poetry 7/4/10 – October Gallery, African American Art, Poetry,
Victoria Puriefoy 2, Panoramic Poetry 7/25/10, African American Art, October Gallery
Crucial, Panoramic Poetry 6/27 October Gallery – African American Art
Leila Wright, Panoramic Poetry 7/25/10, African American Art, October Gallery
Don D.C. Curry Pt. 1
This Was Something We Shared (For Vernessia), 2011 by Shinique Smith
My earliest memories of looking at art, seriously and intently, come from when I was a child growing up in Baltimore. I spent hours staring at reproductions of Romare Bearden’s work that my grandmother had on her walls. She loved him and we would make special trips to the Baltimore Museum of Art to “see the Beardens.” She would talk about his work and say his name with a certain deep tone and joyful inflection—I could feel that the images affected her deeply.
Sudanese artist to go on show
SHARJAH: Under the patronage of His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, Sharjah Art Museum will host “Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist” on view from March 20 through May 31, 2012.
The exhibition, organised by the Museum for African Art, New York, and guest curated by Salah M. Hassan, Cornell University, NY, will coincide with another touring exhibition from the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), titled “Owen Jones: Islamic design, Discovery and Vision,” that will be held at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation from March 21-July 15.
Bob Thompson Also known as Robert Louis Thompson American, 1937 – 1966
Black Women in Art and Literature
Amid the harsh repression of slavery, Americans of African descent, and particularly black women, managed–sometimes at their own peril–to preserve the culture of their ancestry and articulate both their struggles and hopes in their own words and images. A growing number of black female artists and writers emerged throughout the Civil War and Reconstruction eras before finally bursting into the mainstream of American culture in the 1920s, with the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance. After playing a significant role in both the civil rights movement and the women’s movement of the 1960s, the rich body of creative work produced by black women has found even wider audiences in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
ART REVIEWS; 150 Years of African-American Art
ART REVIEWS; 150 Years of African-American Art
By Helen A. Harrison
Published: March 12, 2000
Published: March 12, 2000
Walter O. Evans Collection
Heckscher Museum of Art, 2 Prime Avenue, Huntington. Through April 9. (631) 351- 3250.
Spanning a 150-year period, from the mid-19th century to the late 1990’s, the Evans collection highlights a wide range of artistic achievement. While it makes no claim to comprehensiveness, it includes examples by some of the most notable African-American artists, from Robert Scott Duncanson and Edmonia Lewis to Alma Thomas and Richard Hunt.
Established figures like Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Aaron Douglas are prominently featured. In addition to several of Bearden’s characteristic mixed media collages, with their visionary treatment of ordinary experiences, there are two early works that show his mastery of Cubist formal dynamics. Lawrence’s expressionistic distortion, also rooted in modernism, serves him equally well in genre subjects and grand narratives like ”The Genesis Creation Sermon,” a series of eight gouaches that bring the biblical story vividly to life. Douglas, one of the foremost artists of the Harlem Renaissance, specialized in bold stylizations that combine African-inspired motifs with black American themes. His gouaches and ink drawings — for example, ”The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” a sinuously rhythmic silhouette — often relate to literary works, but amplify rather than illustrate them.
Paintings by Jamaal Sheats
Check New Arrivals for paintings by Jamaal Sheats, Indigo works by Pat Kabore, Evita Tezeno drawings and other new pieces by our family of artists
Just Lookin’ Gallery
Daniel Minter A Hidden River, 2011
Senegal profile
Provides an overview of Senegal, including key events and facts about this west African country
Visions of Our 44th President Barack Obama
Visions of Our 44th President is a collective sculptural show created to recognize and celebrate the historical significance of the first African American President of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
Forty-four Contemporary African American Artists, renowned and emerging, are participating in the avant-garde art collaboration with the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the world’s largest institution dedicated to the African American experience, and Peter Kaplan of Our World, LLC.