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A parallel to Warhol's canonical 1964 painting Race Riot,» Walker's Black Star Press series comprises images of racial unrest that have been digitally... go to book page >>

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Set to the backdrop of the Detroit race riots, the film's opening sequences paint a striking picture of a city in violent chaos, but its broad scope soon gives way to a more focused telling of police brutality against a small group of youths.

The testimony of the Harlem Six, a half a dozen black youth arrested for murder during the 1964 Harlem race riots was the genesis for his latest series of text - based paintings.

Kelley Walker paints his lively chocolate abstractions over a famous 1960s photograph, similar to one borrowed earlier by Andy Warhol, of attacks on a civil - rights worker in Birmingham Race Riots.

Political issues have appeared throughout Warhol's work in such images as the electric chair paintings (1963 - 1967), the race riots (1963), the atomic bomb (1965), the Mao portraits (1972), the Vote McGovern poster (1974), and the American Indian paintings (1976).

We will be presenting a work on paper by Mark Rothko from 1957, a suite of prints from the 1960s pop series by Roy Lichtenstein and a classic black and white work from 1955 by the abstract painter Franz Kline as well as two early works by Andy Warhol from 1964, one an iconic painting from his Electric Chair series, the other a silkscreen on paper from the Race Riot series.

These abstract paintings examine issues of race, sexuality, and identity, responding to events like the riots in LA in 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Andy Warhol, in his iconoclastic battle against abstract expressionism, created narrative prints and paintings of Birmingham for his Race Riot series, illustrating police dogs on the attack (figure 15).

Just four years after One Day Wonder Painting, Kienholz created The Little Eagle Rock Incident (1958), a reaction to the race riots at Arkansas Central High School in Little Rock the year prior.

Opening: «Andy Warhol: Little Electric Chairs» at Venus An important part of Andy Warhol's seminal «Death and Disaster» series — which also includes suicides, race riots and car crashes — the electric chair paintings were based on a news image of the deadly electric chair that was used to execute Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at New York's Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1953.

Referencing the ways that landscapes have been politicized through historical events — from the violent expansion of the American West, colonialism, war, and abolition, through to more recent race riots and social protests — Mehretu began by combining photographs from these events with nineteenth - century landscape paintings.

Culled from testimony given by six black youths during the Harlem Race Riot of 1964, Ligon's paintings create abstraction and rhythm using their words.

The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing: in 1963 he moved with his family to the Nickerson Gardens public housing project in the Watts district of Los Angeles, just a few years before the race riots began.

In New York, «American People Series # 20: Die,» the final painting in the series that graphically depicts a race riot, is on view in the collection galleries at the Museum of Modern Art.

Elsewhere, Theaster Gates's In Case of Race Riot II (2011), a fireman's hose coiled and framed in a wooden box, evokes the high - pressure water guns historically used to suppress civil rights protests; Kara Walker's deceptively playful cutouts tell narratives of the cruel racial dynamics and oppressive stereotypes of the antebellum South; and Titus Kaphar's chilling duo of paintings in The Jerome Project (My Loss)(2014) show the monumental, detailed face of a black man disappearing behind a rising glut of thick black paint.

Simultaneously recalling paintings on velvet, black - light posters and Warhol's disasters and race riots, Ratcliff's works consistently negotiate the oppositions of positive and negative space, of abstraction and figuration, and of a conceptual rigor and the punk aesthetic.

Warhol's so - called race riot paintings are his mediated version of abstract black paintings.