Sentences with phrase «black visual artists»

A touring exhibition spanning the 1960s to present, it was billed as the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black visual artists.

The Black Artists Retreat [B.A.R.] is an annual convening of black visual artists held in Chicago, IL.

There were three black visual artists in that exhibition: Charles White, David Hammons and Timothy Washington.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston senior curator Valerie Cassel Oliver's latest exhibition, Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, explores how black visual artists have used performance since the 1960s.

Sarah Stefana Smith will present «A Poetics of Bafflement and Queer Affect in the Work of Contemporary Black Visual Artists» «My presentation focuses on the artistic work of contemporary black diaspora artists who negotiate different conceptions of blackness.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, «Radical Presence» considers on a grand and comprehensive scale the work of black visual artists expressing themselves in performance.

New York City (June 17, 2013)-- This fall, New York University's Grey Art Gallery and The Studio Museum in Harlem will co-present Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, the first comprehensive survey of more than five decades of performance art by black visual artists.

The Black Artists Retreat is «guided by the tenets of fellowship, rejuvenation, and intellectual rigor and strives to create time and space for an intergenerational community of black visual artists to engage outside of the institutional environment.»

Examining the migration of black visual artists to Los Angeles, she discloses the geography of artistic invention against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, Black Power and arts activism, and violent unrest.

Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of more than five decades of performance art by black visual artists.

BOOKSHELF Pope.L was featured in the group exhibition «Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art,» which was billed as the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black visual artists.

Today, from the archives, we bring you Lia Wilson «s review of Coco Fusco's Observations of Predation in Humans, originally performed at the Studio Museum of Harlem in December 2013 for Radical Presence, a survey of performance work by black visual artists.