Sentences with phrase «by black artists»

Addressing significant holes — and a history of bias — in their collections, museums across the country have been making major acquisitions of work by black artists.

Historically, cultures have been valued on the perceived importance of their art, and there was once a time when no one believed in the value of work made by black artists.

The works featured below reflect the current auction market — the top 25 lots by black artists from 2014 - 2016, the highest price achieved by each artist during the period.

Only by understanding these histories — histories by black artists as much as about black artists — can we move forward towards a different and collectively imagined future.

The exhibition included no paintings or sculptures by black artists.

A list of recent museum acquisitions by black artists follows.

In the last few years, exhibitions of abstract works by Black artists have popped up all over the country.

In anticipation of the first significant offerings of the year, Culture Type is assessing the state of art by black artists.

In his latest column, Walter Robinson considers a new show of work by black artists in light of the diversity of the Whitney Biennial, and the art world in general.

In a previous interview with BmoreArt, Bedford stated that social abstraction, and painting by black artists in particular, is a high priority for the BMA.

The art produced by black artists reflects timely political and social issues, the importance of music and religion in African American culture, and candid portrayals of daily life.

Using titles of songs from Hip - Hop, R&B, Jazz, Blues, and Reggae music, these paintings embody both the experiences and struggles expressed through music by Black artists.

The last installment in the 10 - volume series «The Image of the Black in Western Art,» this book is the first to focus on representations of Black people by Black artists.

Both of these collections contain examples of work created by black artists between the mid-1950s and the mid-1970s.

We also house a unique collection of paperworks, catalogues and images by Black artists including Chris Ofili, Sonia Boyce, Maud Sulter, Jeanne Moutoussamy - Ashe, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Ingrid Pollard, George Hallet and Ben Patterson.

Other demands that were made, which were met, were that there be kind of a program of solo exhibitions by Black artists at the Whitney and that actually did happen.

In recent months, Toronto art spaces have been host to many solo and group exhibitions by Black artists, including Deanna Bowen at Mercer Union; Cauleen Smith, Camille Turner and Jerome Havre at TPW; Tau Lewis and Curtis Santiago at Cooper Cole; Siwa Mgoboza at Matter; Sandra Brewster at Georgia Scherman Projects; Dawoud Bey at Ryerson Image Centre; Isaac Julien at the ROM; and Zun Lee and Jalani Morgan at Ryerson Image Centre and Black Artists Network Dialogue.

In the fall of 1974, Bryant opened Just Above Midtown on 57th Street in New York, a commercial, black - owned art gallery that focused on selling work by black artists through rotating exhibitions.

It also holds a unique Collection of paper works, catalogues and images by black artists including — Chris Ofili, Sonia Boyce, Paul Clarkson, Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson, Ingrid Pollard, Christine Eyene, Zoe Whitely, Ben Patterson and Chantal Oakes.

She spearheaded one timed to the bicentenary of Britain's abolition of slavery, «Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery,» which combined 18th century watercolors that depicted slaves working in sugar colonies alongside contemporary pieces by black artists.

The curatorial attention has trickled up to the art market, slowly, but prices for works by black artists still lag their contemporaries by a long shot.

These emerging and mid-career artists use different approaches to the medium to unravel violent stereotypes inherently tied to photographic representations of Black men, and the works assembled for this exhibition are a well - rounded example of how collage, found objects and re-assemblage are being used by Black artists in contemporary art.

Auction Results: New Records Set for Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Henry Taylor, and Alma Thomas, Compelling Works by El Anatsui Among Many Others by Black Artists Sold Too

The recent decision by the Black artists group Yams Collective to withdraw from the Whitney Biennial in protest of the show's inclusion of Joe Scanlan's alter ego Donelle Woolford has forced a long - standing private conversation among artists of color into public view.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired more than 430 works by black artists since 2010, according to Ann Temkin, the chief curator of painting and sculpture.

It also boasts programs on a variety of topics like photography by black artists and clean water, in addition to a talk by Caitlyn Jenner.

Generally void of works by black artists beyond Jean - Michel Basquiat, in recent years the auctions have featured a few and their presence appears to be creeping up as the contemporary market in general continues to heat up.

Aside from the record sales Ligon registered at the Nov. 11 auction, interest in lots by black artists so far this week has been fairly tepid to average, with most works selling safely within estimates.

Detroit Museum Exhibits Major Painting by Julie Mehretu, First in Series of Works on Loan by Black Artists

In the years immediately preceding his interest, exhibitions presented work by black artists described as folk artists or artists without formal art educations.

The Brooklyn - based artist (he used to live in Columbus, Ohio) currently has several works on view at Housing, Bed - Stuy's newest art gallery, which lives in American Medium's old haunt, and shows the work of black artists, curated by black artists.

Themes of race and violence figure in art throughout this Biennial, including a painting by the black artist Henry Taylor, «The Times Thay Ai nt a Changing Fast Enough!»

One answer is to be found in the swiftly expanding art market ecosystem owned and operated by black artists, gallerists, curators, and cultural workers.

They may go to Sylvia's for soul food, the Apollo Theatre for a concert, and the Studio Museum in Harlem for artworks by Black artists.

I was exploring issues that were core to women and black artists through the language of conceptualism but didn't look like work done by a black artist.»

Works from the collection are now on display in an exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, which similarly draws attention to the important developments made by black artists over the past 70 years or so, specifically relating to abstraction.

Inconsistent in their acknowledgment of the quality and value of art by Black Americans and sporadically offered to the public, these exhibitions did not indicate the rich history of diverse artistic production by Black artists.

Seeking to define African American art practice as more than theater or folk art, Cassel Oliver has opted to locate recent art by black artists within a conceptual framework.

Her measured words barely hint at the hostility felt by some black artists toward a mainstream feminist movement that in their view ignored the black working - class poor and sometimes its own racism.

Walking through the exhibit, anyone who has heard about the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz's portrait of Emmett Till in the 2017 Whitney Biennial should be keenly aware of the significance of a show where the narrative of blackness is articulated by black artists.

Although The Other Story is often referenced in the historicisation of black British art, particularly in relation to its reception by black artists, scholars and in the press, its position in global discourses of art is often overshadowed by a perception of the exhibition as a parochial event in art history.

The symposium is organised by Black Artists and Modernism (University of the Arts, London and Middlesex University) a 3 - year, AHRC funded research programme investigating the often - understated connections and points of conflict between black British artistic practices and objects and their relationship to modernism.

Mounting Frustration also examines some of the probing debates undertaken by black artists in the 1960s and»70s about the coherence (both political and aesthetic) of the rubric of «black art» given that artists worked across so many different styles and had divergent relationships to their own identifications around blackness.

Since its founding in 1968, the Studio Museum has exhibited work by black artists committed to bearing witness to acts of protest.

1986 Art Expressions in Paper, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA Works of Art on Paper by Black Artists, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Gentlemen's Choice, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY