Ethnic Ancestry, Culture and Influences in American Art
with an emphasis on representational art
Within the Topics in American Representational Art catalogue there are links to dozens of topics in American Representational Art. Topics devoted to ethnic ancestry, culture and influence include:
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Hayv Kahraman is a 2018 exhibit at the Pomona College Museum of Art which says: "Los Angeles-based artist Hayv Kahraman creates exquisite figurative paintings on large linen panels that depict a singular woman with iridescent pale skin and inky black hair." Also see artist's website. Accessed 10/18
Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity, an exhibit held January 26 - March 24, 2013 at the Lowe Art Museum at University of Miami. The Museum's website says: "This diverse exhibition is comprised of the works of American artists of African, Arab European, Asian, Latino, and Native American descent, who explore their heritage through their art, evoking emotions of humor, heartache, anger, and apprehension." Accessed February, 2015
ITALIA: The Influence of Italy on American Artists, an exhibit held June 12 through July 22, 2012 at the Cahoon Museum of American Art. Accessed May, 2014
"Italy's Art in The United States: Tracing the Immigrants' Influence in the Upstate New York Region," by James C. Mancuso, from sersale.org. Accessed August, 2015.
Its Inside Is Bigger Than Its Outside: Paintings by Seongmin Ahn is a 2023 exhibit at the Hudson River Museum which says: "In her first solo exhibition at the Hudson River Museum, Ahn, who was born in South Korea and resides in New York, deftly combines traditional Korean painting techniques with contemporary subject matter to express her personal journey to discover a sense of home as an artist bridging Eastern and Western cultures. She combines her artistic training in Korean black ink wash and color painting with an affinity for Western abstract and conceptual art. With its bold compositions and flat areas of saturated color, her painting style also reflects the influence of Minhwa, a Korean folk art that reached its height of popularity during the last century of the Chos'n dynasty (1392-1910)." Also see the website of the artist. Accessed 4/23
Kamal: His Passion - His People, an exhibit held December 5, 2008 - March 19, 2009 at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Includes exbibit brochure. Accessed April, 2015.
Museo Italo-Americano, San Francisco website contans online catalogs from prior exhibits including16-page Cuneo: A Family of Early California Artists, from a July 16 - September 27, 2009 retrospective exhibit. Accessed December, 2015.
Nam June Paik: Global Visionary, an exhibit held December 13, 2012 - August 11, 2013 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Includes online video and press coverage. Accessed April, 2015.
Nora Krug: Belonging & On Tyranny is a 2023 exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum which says: "Award-winning artist Nora Krug's powerful graphic memoir, Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home, and her most recent book publication, an illustrated edition of Yale historian Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, will be the focus of an exhibition at Norman Rockwell Museum from March 18 through June 18, 2023. Each book takes inspiration from the artist's personal experiences as well as the events of history through engagement with deep topical research, museum artifacts and flea market finds, vintage photography, oral histories, and personal conversations, with the goal of trying to understand, reckon with, and depict the past in order to take something revelatory and useful away from it." Also see the website of the artist. Accessed 4/23
Ola Rondiak: Behind the Lines is a 2017 exhibit at the Delaware Contemporary which says: "Ola Rondiak's paintings stem from her family's experiences living in Ukraine during the historical events of WWII, Stalin's Iron Curtain, the Orange Revolution, and the Revolution of Dignity in 2014." Also see artist's website and article in Ukrainian Weekly. Accessed 12/18
We the People is a 2017 exhibit at the Minnesota Museum of American Art which says: "For We the People, Minnesota Museum of American Art (the M) has invited four guest curators to select work by prominent local and national artists that sheds light on the complexities of contemporary American experience." Accessed 9/17
Also see this book:
Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists, by Fayeq Oweis (Google eBook). ABC-CLIO, 2008 - 306 pages. The rich history and culture of the Arab American people is found in the passionate works of its artists. Whether they be traditional media such as painting and calligraphy, or more sophisticated media such as digital work and installation, the pieces represent the beauty of heritage, the struggles of growing up in war-torn countries, the identity conflicts of female artists in male-dominated societies, and the issues surrounding migration to a Western culture very different from one's own. Book information courtesy of Google Books.
(above: Entrance, American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo: John Hazeltine. © 2012 John Hazeltine)
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