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Born in the late 40’s in Akron, Ohio, Woodrow Nash is the product of sanctified churches, 1950’s television images, and black inner city neighborhood schools run by predominantly white middle-class educators. The young student immersed...
SOLD Dance with Me by Don Stephens Original Acrylic on Board 16 x 20 Donald Stephens resides in Burlington County NJ since 1987. He has attended Burlington County College obtaining an AAS 90’. Mr....
SOLD Shipping $15 Music Horn Man by Don Stephens Original Acrylic on Canvas 16 x 20 Donald Stephens resides in Burlington County NJ since 1987. He has attended Burlington County College obtaining an AAS...
Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper...
by Matthea Harvey BOMB 100/Summer 2007, ART I’ve been thinking about Kara Walker’s work for a long time. Two years ago, a bleeding barn from one of her watercolors appeared in one of my...
“One of my earliest memories involves sitting on my dad’s lap in his studio in the garage of our house and watching him draw. I remember thinking: ‘I want to do that, too,’ and...
„Im watching u“ by Leon Keay L.@.K.ART began whilst on my travels through Israel in 1999,although i attended art college in Leicester before this,i didnt really class myself as an artist untill i started...
Vol. 24, No. 2 – A special issue of the International Review of African American Art on connections between mass media, pop culture, digital technologies and visual art. “Artists are just as much products...
This print shows when, in 1965, hundreds of civil rights marchers started on a peace march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama led by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Their goal was to secure...
Henry Taylor, who lives in Los Angeles, paints fast, loose and sensuously on canvases great and small. Portraiture is his work’s center of gravity. His subjects include friends, relatives, acquaintances from the art world...
The stars of Motown: The Musical are getting ready to go dancing in the streets when the Broadway-bound production bows this spring. In a behind the scenes video from a recent photo shoot, cast...
Frank Morrison’s paintings stunned me not only for their originality and beauty but also because of their complimentary depictions of the black woman. The body forms of the woman are not anatomically accurate but...
By andrea kirsh April 13, 2012 As recent national news has made painfully clear, ours is not a post-racial society, and much as I’d rather not see African American artists exhibited in the context...
When I turned eighteen years old, my grandfather stressed the importance of voting by taking me to a tree where he was told that African-Americans were lynched by their neckties on their way to...
Osnat is a self-representing Canadian artist. She is best known for her large-size original abstract landscape and Contemporary modern paintings, but she mostly enjoys the combination of these three. As an artist who sells...