African American 21st Century Art - Online information about African American Art from sources other than Resource Library

African American 21st Century Art

Online information about African American Art from sources other than Resource Library

with an emphasis on representational art

(above: Horace Pippin, The Trial of John Brown, 1942, oil on canvas, De Young Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*

Alisha Wormsley: The space I am in: Oracles is a 2019 exhibit at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art which says: "Alisha B. Wormsley is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Her work is about collective memory and the synchronicity of time, specifically through the stories of women of color."Also see website of artist. Accessed 6/20

Expansive Presentation of Kara Walker is a 2021 exhibit at The Broad which says: "An in-depth installation of Kara Walker, opening May 26, 2021, features all ten artworks by the artist in the Broad collection, including six on view for the first time at The Broad. The Broad will debut two new acquisitions by Walker. Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions (2004) is the artist's first video work, and The White Power 'Gin / Machine to Harvest the Nativist Instinct for Beneficial Uses to Border Crossers Everywhere (2019) is a work on paper that includes a large triptych and a series of 12 small drawings." Accessed 12/22

The Highwaymen, a group of Florida-based African American landscape artists, from Wikipedia

In Conversation: Modern African American Art, an exhibit held June 1, 2013 to September 2, 2013 at the Peabody Essex Museum. Includes press release and media coverage. Accessed April, 2015.

In Our Lifetime: Paintings from the Pandemic by Kadir Nelson is a 2022 exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum which says: "Always prolific, Nelson is ever observant of the world around him. The exceptional suite of paintings in In Our Lifetime, exhibited together for the first time, traces the artist's experience of the global COVID-19 pandemic while bearing witness to world events as they unfolded. In painting and publishing his work, particularly at such an unprecedented time, Nelson gave voice to uncertainty, anger, and fear, but also to the joy of human existence and connectivity, which is deeply felt in his work." Also see the website of the artist. Accessed 9/22

Leo Twiggs: Requiem for Mother Emanuel is a 2017 exhibit at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University which says: "In the 11 months that followed the 2015 murders at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, artist Leo Twiggs painted as a cathartic means of processing the event and responding to the what he described as "the state's most humane moment." " Also see artist's website Accessed 11/17

Making Connections: The Art and Life of Herbert Gentry, an exhibit held January, 2014 at the Boston University Art Gallery. Accessed July, 2015.

NOMAD (Narrative Odyssey Manifesting Artistic Dreams) is a five-day residency and an assemblage workshop led by artist Dominique Moody at the California African American Museum from December 1 through December 5, 2015. CAAM says "The Nomad is built on a tandem wheeled trailer and measures 8' W x 20' L, and its height from the ground to its gabled roof is 12' 6"H. The total weight is 6,350 lbs. Materials consist of wood, corrugated and patinated metal, reclaimed wood, found objects, galvanized metal, polycarbonate panels, end grain plywood, and natural cork. At 120 square feet, the Nomad has a capacity for only 6 people at a time, but it has been toured by as many as 200 people at a single event." Accessed February, 2016.

Racial Violence and Resilience: Questions and Currents in African American Art is a 2016 exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum which says: "The selection addresses pressing debates that have reverberated across campus and the nation this year, focusing on three interrelated themes: representations of racial violence, resilience, and the role of religious faith as both a justification for violence and a source of resistance." Accessed 2/17

States of Becoming is a 2024 exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College which says: "It examines the dynamic forces of relocation, resettling, and assimilation that shape the artistic practices of a group of seventeen contemporary African artists, and informs the discourse on identity construction within the African diaspora. The artists, who either relocated to the United States or are first-generation born, have lived and worked here within the last three decades... The artists relocated from twelve countries in Africa and one in the Caribbean -- Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe -- with roots in cities across the US, including Detroit, Los Angeles, New Haven, New York, and Washington, DC." Accessed 10/24

Whitfield Lovell: Deep River, an exhibit held May 18 - October 13, 2013 at the Hunter Museum of American Art. Accessed February, 2015.

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