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Alfred Conteh, American Artist
Biography Alfred Amadu Conteh was born in 1975 in Fort Valley, Georgia. He attended Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, where he received a BFA. He received his MFA from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. His mother is African American and his father is from Sierra Leone, West Africa. Many of his works examine his…
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Introducing Carl E. Moore
Protest and Fire by Carl E. Moore Carl E. Moore (b. Canton, MS) lives and works in Memphis, TN as an artist and designer. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Memphis College of Art where he received his BFA and MFA. Artist Statement My work Deals with Color and…
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Barbara Jones-Hogu Printmaker
Barbara Jones-Hogu (born Chicago, IL 1938–died Chicago Heights, IL 2017) Painter and printmaker Barbara Jones-Hogu was a founding member of the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCOBRA), an artist collective formed in Chicago in 1968. Members of AfriCOBRA visually expressed the central ideas of the Black Power movement—self-determination, unity, and black pride. The group shared…
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STAN SQUIREWELL IN HARLEM
I am examining the relativity of global indigenous geometric patterns, specifically West African Kente schema, as a possible progenitor of modern digital cultures. I see overwhelming similarities in basic constructions and designs of computer processing chips and video games to the geometrical weave of the cloth. The vividly bold colors, precise hard lines, sequential rhythms…
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HARLEM’S FAITH RINGGOLD
Last night, a special tour of Faith Ringgold’s retrospective was offered at the New Museum by Artnoir. The works were stunning. Overwhelming at times. Everyone learned something new about Harlem’s Faith Ringgold. We highly recommend that folks see this show. The works inspired by France are worth seeing alone. There are costumes and dolls that were…
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Madness in March
Barkley Hendricks, the late-revolutionary artist known the world over for his bold and captivating portrait paintings, is getting several posthumous exhibitions and a book in the near future. Having started in the 1960s, Hendricks life-size canvases depicted colorful portraits of Black Americans in a way that faithfully reflected the personalities of his subjects. Similar…
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Remembering Charles Alston
This coming Friday, West Harlem Art Fund will moderate a panel discussion on Mexican Muralism and its impact on American art. If you are familiar with the subject, you know that the movement was immortalized by Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Siqueiros. But their reach crossed North America too with several artists of…
Academy of Arts and Letters, American illustrator, American muralist, American painter, American sculptor, Augusta Savage, Charles Alston, Charles White, City College, City University of New York, David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Elba Lightfoot, Elizabeth Catlett, Federal Art Project, Georgiette Seabrook, Harlem Community Art Center, Harlem Hospital Murals, Jacob Lawrence, Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexican Muralism Movement, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, WPA
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Remembering HUNG LIU
Hung Liu (刘虹) (February 17, 1948 – August 7, 2021) Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948, growing up during the Maoist regime. Initially trained in the Socialist Realist style, Liu studied mural painting as a graduate student at the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, before immigrating to the US…
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DANIELLE MCKINNEY ARTIST
Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Midnight Oil, an exhibition of new paintings by Danielle Mckinney shown on the second floor of the gallery’s Aspen location from June 24 – July 25, 2021. The works on view capture profoundly contemplative scenes with engaging and expressive energy, highlighting the artist’s intuitive observation of human life and…
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WHO IS HONOR TITUS?
Honor Titus (b. 1989, Brooklyn, NY) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Painted in a range of dark, luminous jewel tones, his paintings often depict faceless figures in minimal urban landscapes, reflecting the sense of isolation and loneliness that results from a condition of anonymity in the urban environment. Suffused with a…
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TITUS KAPHAR NAMED ONE OF THE TOP ARTISTS IN 2020
At Gesù Church in Brussels, Maruani Mercier Gallery presented recent works in which Kaphar incorporated Renaissance-era religious iconography. Displayed on the flaky and at times graffitied walls of the deconsecrated church, a painted deposition scene shows Jesus’s body shrouded in black tar, and a portrait of a Black man is duct-taped onto a painting of…
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