Kerry James Marshall (right) pictured with collector Alice Walton. (Photo: Jared Siskin for Patrick McMullan).
One of the Great American Artists Gets an American Retrospective
SF African American Historical Society’s annual Black History Month program
by Eldoris Cameron
The San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society will launch the 2016 annual Black History Month kickoff in the Rotunda at City Hall on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, at 12 noon followed by a reception in the South Light Court.
John William Templeton, Oxford University Press historian, will address the national theme, “Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories.” Templeton’s remarks will focus on “hallowed grounds” in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He is author of “Our Roots Run Deep: The Black Experience in California,” Vols. 1-4, and creator of the California African-American Freedom Trail. Special guests and City’s official family are expected to join an audience of more than 300.
The Society’s Black History Month lineup of events will include:
- Conversation and slide show with Lewis Watts, co-author of “Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era.” Mr. Watts is currently exhibiting photographs from New Orleans at the Richmond Art Center, is author of the book, “New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition,” and is emeritus professor at UC Santa Cruz. The event is Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 762 Fulton St., second floor, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
- Wesley Johnson, the Texas Tornado with John William Templeton, 762 Fulton St., second floor, Saturday, Feb. 13, 11 a.m., the program followed by a reception. Co-sponsors are SFAAHCA and the African American Art and Culture Complex.
- Pilgrimage to Mary Ellen Pleasant Burial Site, Tulocay Cemetery, Napa, on Saturday, Feb. 27, 1:00-5:30 p.m. In 1965, the Society dedicated and inscribed on the tombstone of Mary Ellen Pleasant, “Mother of Civil Rights in California. She was a friend of John Brown.”
Founded in 1955, the Society is the oldest Bay Area institution that is dedicated to documenting, preserving and presenting true accounts of the contributions people of African descent have made to San Francisco and the Bay Area. The Society’s gallery and library are located in the African American Art and Culture Complex at 762 Fulton St. in San Francisco. All events are free to the public.
To learn more, contact SFAAHCS President Al Williams at awilliams@sfaahcs.org.
Cincinnati Art Museum Features Local Artist For Black History Month
Posted Wednesday, February 3rd 2016 @ 6am by 700WLW News
(Cincinnati) To Celebrate Black History Month in the Tristate, The Cincinnati Art Museum has a digital art gallery that everyone can see on-line which features paintings by African-American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson. According to the Cincinnati Art Museum’s exhibit, Duncanson was born the grandson of a freed Virginia slave in 1821. He grew up with his family in Monroe, Michigan before moving to Cincinnati around 1840. That is where he became a member of the blooming art community in Cincinnati. Many of his paintings focused on the Ohio River Valley in the early 1850’s. His art is featured by the Cincinnati Art Museum on-line here. Dunn said they will an on-site gallery opening in March, which will also feature current and past African-American artists.
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center also has a featured exhibit on the google.com Cultural Institute’s website. You can find it here.
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Exhibition highlights African-American artists from the South
Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art (BFSDoArt) presentsCelebrating African-American Artists, featuring work created by renowned African-American artists from the South. On display through July 29 in the Southern Folk Art Gallery of the Center for Art & Theatre, the exhibition includes a reception Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. at the Center for Art & Theatre. The events are free and the public is welcome.
This exhibition is curated by Annamarie Kistler, a graduate assistant at the BFSDoArt, from the Smith Callaway Banks Southern Folk Art Collection at Georgia Southern University. Kistler, who is pursuing her master’s in history with a certificate in public history, currently works as the collections manager, overseeing all of the pieces in the permanent collections at Georgia Southern.
“While cataloging the pieces we have in the Folk Art Collection, I realized we have a lot of pieces painted of childhood memories by African-American artists who have not been exhibited in a long time,” Kistler said. “I wanted to do this exhibition to show off these beautiful pieces by these very talented artists.”
Celebrating African-American Artists showcases the personal and intimate narratives of the artists’ most cherished memories, which is what folk art is all about. Its subject matter springs from community and cultural traditions, expressing an identity by conveying shared values and aesthetics.
“Each of these pieces carry something special,” Kistler said. “What is interesting is for some pieces the artist purposefully left out the detail on the faces so the viewer could further connect with the piece by imposing their own memories on the faces in the artwork.”
“The Smith Callaway Banks Southern Folk Art Collection is a treasure trove of styles, ideas, and materials,” said Center for Art & Theatre Gallery Director Jason Hoelscher. “In curating this show, Annamarie has shown a strong curatorial flair for coming up with an exhibition that covers a lot of territory in terms of medium and content, while maintaining a lot of heart in the ideas and scenes put together by the artists. The show is eclectic without being scattered, and definitely worth checking out.”
Works by the artists included in the exhibition have been displayed around the country from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., to major commissions with companies like Coca-Cola and newspapers such as The New York Times.
The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is the largest of the eight colleges that make up Georgia Southern University, and it plays a central role in every student’s core of knowledge. CLASS, also described as the University’s College of the Creative Mind, prepares students to achieve academic excellence, develop their analytical skills, enhance their creativity and embrace their responsibilities as citizens of their communities, their nations and the world. CLASS offers more than 20 undergraduate degrees and several interdisciplinary minors from its 11 departments and five academic centers. CLASS offers eight master’s degrees, two graduate certificates and one doctoral degree. GeorgiaSouthern.edu/CLASS
Georgia Southern University, a public Carnegie Doctoral/Research University founded in 1906, offers more than 125 degree programs serving nearly 20,500 students. Through eight colleges, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs built on more than a century of academic achievement. Georgia Southern is recognized for its student-centered and hands-on approach to education. GeorgiaSouthern.edu
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Chicago-based artist Kerry James Marshall will be the subject of a major three-city retrospective beginning in April.
The show, titled “Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,” will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago on April 23 and run through September 25, 2016. It will then travel to the Met Breuer a new extension of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, opening October 25, 2016 and closing on January 29, 2017 before finally heading to the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, where it will run from March 21, 2017 to July 2, 2017.
One of the country’s most celebrated painters, Mr. Marshall has forged an unmistakable and complex style over the years that merges the structure and refinement of European Renaissance painting with the graphic storytelling and dynamism of American cartooning.
Mr. Marshall was born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1955 and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Calif. and was therefore positioned front-and-center for the Civil Rights and Black Power movements—struggles that continue to inform his art to this day. His portraits, interiors and landscapes, which are populated with the artist’s signature overly darkened portrayals of African-American figures from history or from the artist’s life, offer a singular perspective that counters African-American stereotypes while presenting a private window onto the black experience in the United States.
The exhibition was co-curated by leaders from all three institutions: Dieter Roelstraete, former senior curator at the MCA Chicago and a member of the Documenta 14 curatorial team; Ian Alteveer, Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Helen Molesworth, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, according to the Chicago Sun Times.
“[Mr. Marshall’s] work is intrinsically linked to and explicitly about the black experience in this country – both in terms of its visibility and its invisibility,” said Mr. Alteveer via email.
At New York’s Met Breuer building this fall, Mr. Marshall will be also be curating an intriguing exhibition that will run concurrently with his retrospective. This exhibition will draw artworks from the Met’s extensive collection, hoping to illuminate the breadth of international and historical influences upon this one-of-a-kind artist.
There will be roughly 70 artworks in “Kerry James Marshall: Mastry,” and while it will primarily focus on the artist’s paintings, the show will also include drawing, photography, video and sculpture spanning the entirety of Mr. Marshall’s career. A catalog published by Skira Rizzoli and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago will accompany the exhibition.