Sentences with phrase «black abstract artists»

However late, curators and dealers for international galleries and fairs alike are taking stock of black abstract artists.

These are just two examples of the long history of aesthetic prejudice black abstract artists have run into.

A new wave of black abstract artists are exploring ways to push the language of abstraction and still retaining their cultural specificity.

Odili Donald Odita, 48, says that he feels indebted to the persistence of the older generation of black abstract artists who asserted personal freedom in the face of an art market that rewarded cultural and political stereotypes.

The Studio Museum has also presented black abstract artists as a vital tradition, as well as black conceptual art.

Golden calls her show «post-black art,» and she has a museum that can even present black abstract artists, a black artist collective of the 1960s, or black conceptual art as a lost tradition.

When he landed in New York, in 1976, Little was taken under the wing of the older artist Al Loving, who drew him into the circle of such black abstract artists as William T. Williams, Jack Whitten, Mel Edwards, Fred Eversley, and Bill Hutson.

Joyner, a former Wall Street executive turned arts patron, is currently touring works from her and her husband Alfred Giuffrida's collection of nearly 400 works by black abstract artists including Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Mark Bradford, Shinique Smith, and Kevin Beasley, with an aim «to rewrite art history,» as Joyner described it in a recent interview.

Perhaps one of the reasons the histories largely ignore Lewis and many other mid-century black abstract artists is because their work was made with the Civil Rights movement as a backdrop, and as much as some of the white artists and critics during that era may have supported that movement, the incorporation of hitherto unknown black artists into the story of Abstract Expressionism would mean having to account for the the ingrained racial biases of the institutional art world.

He elucidated, in his poetic style, a distinction between the generation of black abstract artists who preceded him, and who significantly influenced his art, including Sam Gilliam, William T. Williams, Alvin Loving, David Hammons, Jack Whitten, and Martin Puryear.

Nor does she challenge the mythic great white male artist on his own terms, as might black abstract artists or Gary Simmons.

Shows have given pride of place to black abstract artists — like Jack Whitten, whose tiles of dark acrylic just ran elsewhere.

In the»70s, there was nowhere for a black abstract artist to turn.

At the same time, it is useful to remember that it was venturesome on the part of the Whitney Museum to give a black abstract artist an exhibition of new works, whatever the underlying motivation.