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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.

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Doubtless in the coming weeks many will muse on the impact of a blockbuster primarily focusing on struggles within the black community instead of racial injustice, but even in the superb recent series by Ta - Nehisi Coates and the artist Brian Stelfreeze, the Panther's principal concern was the welfare of Wakanda.

Inspired by urban surroundings of the big city, a landscape of his home in rural Pennsylvania, and Japanese calligraphy, the artist transfused these motifs into the recognizable large black - and - white paintings which helped establishment of Gestural Abstraction as an important segment within Abstract Expressionism.

UNBRANDED: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK AND A CENTURY OF WHITE WOMEN Selected by Stephanie Cristello Foreword by Janet Dees and Tamar Kharatishvili > click here to download PDF For over fifteen years, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas has consistently explored the representation of stereotypes within mass media and American consumer culture, particularly as it relates to African --LSB-...]

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.

Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another — and within the larger history of abstract art — for the first time, revealing the artists» role as under - recognized leaders in abstraction.

But it is distinguished by a new level of wealth and access that black artists, gallerists, and collectors can marshal to create commercial and institutional opportunities for their peers, both within mostly black spaces and throughout the larger art world.

White Cube, which has an outpost in Hong Kong, sold one of Damien Hirst's Black Scalpel Blade cityscapes of Shanghai for about $ 1.2 million, while White Space of Beijing reported that 70 percent of its works sold within the first two days, including several works by the young Chinese conceptual artist He Xiangyu.

On view at Arnika Dawkins Gallery through January 22, these photographic works by 22 emerging and celebrated artists also expose the coded dialogue regarding class, color, and consciousness within the black community.

Within months, the works were purchased by leading museums and Lawrence soon became the nation's most successful Black artist.

These two artists are very different, but their basic message is that painting can be renewed in ways we haven't seen before, whether it is reshaped by Mr. Marshall's erudite meditation on black life in America, or exploded from within, as in Ms. Owens's worldly, encompassing formalism.

Artists On Artists / Mickalene Thomas By Kara Walker Interspersed within my few remaining early issues of Ebony magazine from the 70s are faded liquor and cigarette advertisements, rich with period visions of black urban cool.

Question Bridge: Black Males A 5 - channel video installation by Artist Hank Willis Thomas January 27 — May 1, 2016 Opening Reception: January 27 The UMCA is pleased to present Question Bridge: Black Males, a five - channel video installation that aims to represent and redefine black male identity in America, and powerfully exposes the incredible diversity of thought, character, and identity within the black American male demographic, disrupting traditional generalizatBlack Males A 5 - channel video installation by Artist Hank Willis Thomas January 27 — May 1, 2016 Opening Reception: January 27 The UMCA is pleased to present Question Bridge: Black Males, a five - channel video installation that aims to represent and redefine black male identity in America, and powerfully exposes the incredible diversity of thought, character, and identity within the black American male demographic, disrupting traditional generalizatBlack Males, a five - channel video installation that aims to represent and redefine black male identity in America, and powerfully exposes the incredible diversity of thought, character, and identity within the black American male demographic, disrupting traditional generalizatblack male identity in America, and powerfully exposes the incredible diversity of thought, character, and identity within the black American male demographic, disrupting traditional generalizatblack American male demographic, disrupting traditional generalizations.

This year has been unusually promising for the visibility of work by black female artists, even while that prominence has further highlighted racially problematic attitudes within the art world.

Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household paint on canvas of colored dots on a white field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943 painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.

Delusions of Grandeur is a collective of emerging artists brought together by a shared interest and commitment to their art, a need to provide critique and commentary on social infrastructures within American society and to contribute to the prominence of the collective black voice and presence within contemporary art.

However, within the wider context of this particular exhibition, such a judgement seems almost secondary because, as is so often the case, the principal issues and concerns arising out of exhibition work by Black artists in white gallery spaces revolve around the «politics» of these exhibitions, rather than the wok itself.

Why: «Bloodlines,» the exhibit of new works by New York - based artist Firelei Báez, is inspired by methods of resistance in black communities within the United States and the Caribbean.

Nineteenth - century landscape paintings by a self - taught black artist hang on the walls, Baroque sculptures of dancing figures face each other in an otherwise sterile vitrine, and baseball caps from Knuckles's collection are displayed commercially in a row within that nearby open - ended vitrine.

Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks on the construction and translation of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the feeling of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu tales to speak upon the magic of childhood and the power dynamics of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.

This symposium — moderated by Mark Nash and Allison Thompson — examines «the intersection of the artistic, theoretical, literary, and cultural dimensions» in the work of Frank Bowling, the Guyanese - born, London - based artist whose work is «deeply connected to, and inflected by Édouard Glissant's notion of a «Caribbean Discourse» — the idea that the entire critical literature and art created within the historical complex of the Black Atlantic is an ongoing process of philosophical reflection.»

«It's like 2007 again in some ways,» said Alex Logsdail, associate director of the Lisson Gallery, who had sold 15 pieces within the first four hours -LSB-...] a black wall sculpture by Anish Kapoor for 550,000 pounds and a stereogram by Haroon Mirza — who won the Silver Lion for the most promising young artist at this year's Venice Biennale — for 16,000 pounds.

Hans Richter, Still from Filmstudie, 1926 35 mm film transferred to video (black and white, silent) March 19 — June 23, 2008 This exhibition considers the transformation of the art object from static image to light projection within two distinct artistic lineages: the unconventional optical techniques and social analyses of the 1920s Neue Optik, or «New Vision,» generation of artists, among them László Moholy - Nagy, Hans Richter, and Marcel Duchamp; and the situational aesthetics advanced by Gordon Matta - Clark, -LSB-...]

Goldblatt's photographs, which included works from his Ex-offenders series as well as other recent black and white and colour prints, were shown at Giardini within the star - shaped and wallpapered «Para-Pavilion» conceived by Polish artist Monika Sosnowska.

Within the last two years, the Metropolitan Museum has acquired a major collection of work by black Southern artists, and the Museum of Modern Art has hired a curator whose mission is to help fill the wide gaps in its African - American holdings and exhibitions.