The Art of Woodrow Nash
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. …
SOLD – Dance with Me by Don Stephens
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 …
SOLD – Music Horn Man by Don Stephens
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 …
Kara Walker – Visual Artist (Video)
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 …
Kara Walker by Matthea Harvey
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 …
The Art of Kara Walker
“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 …
Leon Keay – Visual Artist
„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 …
A special issue of the International Review of African American Art
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 …
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Eric Holder: Voting Rights Act Can’t Be Called Unnecessary Yet
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 …
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2012 Henry Taylor – African American Artist Profile – W Magazine & New York Times
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 …
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Berry, Diana, Smokey and More! Go Inside the Sleek ’60s Photo Shoot for Motown: The Musical
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 …
30 Stunning Black woman Paintings and Illustrations by Frank Morrison
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 …
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After Tanner: African American Artists since 1948 at PAFA
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 …
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Kevin Cole Visual Artist
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 …
Original Palette Knife on canvas Portrait Painting of a Woman by Osnat 48″x36″
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 …
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