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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 himself in art during an era when artists sought nothing less than old-fashioned honesty in their imagery. As a freelance artist, …
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. Stephens then furthered his yearning for the arts at Temple University Tyler School of the Arts, where he has achieved his …
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 90’. Mr. Stephens then furthered his yearning for the arts at Temple University Tyler School of the Arts, where he has …
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 silhouettes. Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969.[1] Her retired father is a formally educated artist, a professor, and an …
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 poems. About a month ago I finished writing a book of poems, Modern Life, which is populated by catgoats and centaurs, …
“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 I pretty much decided then and there at age 2½ or 3 that I was an artist just like Dad.” —Kara …
„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 producing my own drawings whilst travelling. On my travels in Israel i ended up in Eilat in the south of Israel,living …
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 of contemporary popular culture, in all its mass technological – media frenzy, as we are — we average, non-artistic folk. As …
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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 voting rights for blacks in America. Just outside Selma, at the Edmond Pettus Bridge, local law enforcement officials repeatedly turned back …
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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 and off the street, and heroes from the worlds of sports and politics. Along the way he takes in downbeat cityscapes …
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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 members Brandon Victor Dixon, Valisia LeKae, Charl Brown and more get dressed to the nines to channel the likes of Berry …
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 this is a purposeful technique to elongate the necks making the black women in the paintings look proud with their heads …
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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 of their common racial background, such exhibitions still have a place. That place is particularly important in Philadelphia, where the extent …
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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 vote. The experience left a profound impression in my mind. While evolving from a more expressionistic place to one of abstraction, …
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 on and off eBay for more than seven years now, Osnat strives for the best quality in both materials and finish. …
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