Sentences with phrase «century black identity»

NEW YORK — Just south of Canal Street, a refreshing new show explores 21st century black identity.

Not exact matches

Inspired by the Pulitzer's monumental Ellsworth Kelly wall sculpture, Blue Black, Ligon will expand Kelly's exploration of the two colors with a diverse selection of more than forty works spanning almost a century and touching upon notions of language, identity, and memory.

1998 Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, NY Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection, The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ The Jewish Museum List Graphic Commission, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Animated by flânerie — the idle, detached observation of street life that 19th - century writers associated with the rise of modern cities, that was an important strategy of the French Impressionists — and making reference to African tribal art, Ward's oeuvre resonates with the Barnes collection and speaks with penetrating insight and imagination to a broad range of subjects, including black history and culture, the dynamics of power and politics, and Caribbean diaspora identity.

He's interested primarily in the investigation of the construction of black identity through popular culture in the 17th and 18th century but also in the more recent times.

Carmen Neely's work — a combination of painting and found objects — is imbued with deep intention and awareness of her identity as a young black woman making art in the twenty - first century.

Deploying mediums such as creative writing, visual and performance art and audio narrative, White Collar Black Body provides a space to unpack and affirm layers of Black identity and ultimately dissect the heart of what it means to be Black at work in 21st century America.

Her 2012 exhibition, «Book of Kings,» placed 11th - century Persian poetry on black - and - white images of young Arab protesters, creating a long - spanning narrative of identity, creativity and dissent.

Throughout the history of the 20th - century art, black artists approached the subject of their own identity in various different ways.

«Civil Progress: Life in Black America,» Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, February 6 — March 30, 1997 «Blind Spot: Coming of Age,» White Columns, New York, NY, May 8 — 29, 1997 «Kimchi Xtravaganza,» Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, June 16, 1997 — January 10, 1998; catalogue «The Dual Muse: The Writer As Artist, The Artist As Writer,» Washington University Gallery of Art, St Louis, MO, November 7 — December 21, 1997; catalogue «Thirty - Third Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper,» Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, November 16, 1997 — January 18, 1998; catalogue «Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, November 26, 1997 — January 4, 1998 «La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internationale d'Arte,» Venice, Italy, 1997; catalogue «A Decade in Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing,» Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1997 «Coming of Age,» White Columns, New York, NY, 1997 «Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century,» Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, 1997; traveled to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; catalogue «Kinds of Abstract,» Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 1997 «Rhapsodies in Black,» Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre, London, UK, 1997; travels to Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK; The Mead Gallery, Coventry, UK; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; catalogue «Sunny Days / Critical Times,» The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY, 1997 «Un Bel Ete,» Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 1997

This group of multicultural, cross-generational painters, colored pencil, and mixed - media artists present diverse visions of Black identity, while expressing the social and political progress that defined the past half - century.

These artists participated in ongoing dialogues about art, black identity, and individual rights that engaged American society in the twentieth century.